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- February 28
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- Monster Hunter Wilds PC players make Steam reviews their 15th weapon as Capcom's RE Engine delivers another Dragon's Dogma 2-sized disaster: "Very immersive game. You can cook a well-done steak on your GPU"
- First Daredevil: Born Again clip sees The Man Without Fear beat up Bullseye but leaves out the best part
- "Sounds like a skills issue": Jeff the Shark co-creator says Marvel Rivals players "should get better at the game" if "my boy is beating your ass every night"
- Scream star Matthew Lillard is joining the cast of Daredevil: Born Again
- Assassin's Creed Shadows has guaranteed one-shot assassinations, but you have to turn them on in the options
- The Terminator 2 game we should've got in 1991 is now coming from one of the best retro studios around, complete with a buff Sarah Connor and a fully nude playable Arnold
- Where to buy AMD RX 9070 series graphics cards: Live stock updates and recommended retailers
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs chased down a 600-year-old star map for the sake of historical accuracy and immersion, and it should "be useful for Hardcore Mode"
- Helldivers 2's Galactic War resumes as Arrowhead fixes its broken liberation rates, and High Command insists anyone who saw anything weird "may be suffering from Illuminate mind-influence"
- I got tricked into trying this roguelike dungeon crawler after its Steam Next Fest demo used cozy farm sim features as bait to draw me in, but now I'm converted
- Horror movie marketing ups its game once again, as the team behind The Monkey sends a gross-out bus to drive around Hollywood
- Monster Hunter Wilds devs "have polished our game as much as possible," producer says, which might not be very reassuring for the PC players experiencing performance issues
- Dwarf Fortress devs "apologize for destroying your food-based economies" after nerfing meal prices: "Didn't realize so many of you were living that way"
- The Stardew Valley stan in me is more excited than ever to play this cozy farming sim for real next month, after its Steam Next Fest demo blew me away
- Of course the Clue: What We Do in the Shadows board game is cheap right now, as normies tell me constantly "It's not like it's Halloween"
- The Sims meets Unpacking in this cozy Steam Next Fest demo that could easily have eaten up hours of my free time
- This exploration roguelike has no combat, and just tasks you with placing rooms on a blueprint – but its Steam Next Fest demo is delightfully devious
- Fortnite is now giving cheaters "second chances" with 1-year bans that allow you to use the battle royale like it's Discord and do absolutely nothing else until you're freed from the void
- In classic Nintendo fashion, the latest Pokemon Legends Z-A reveal left out the best part: the Lumiose City map looks great after a massive overhaul in the 12 years since X and Y
- AMD finally unveils its RX 9070 series graphics cards starting at $549
- The Hunger Games director to follow up Stephen King adaptation with Netflix series based on "30 Days of Night meets The Last of Us" horror podcast
- CRKD's new Gibson Les Paul Guitar Controller is up for pre-order, and it's coming for the Riffmaster's lunch
- Former Pokemon World Champion says new game is about to turn the competitive scene upside-down, with changes so big he "can't even fathom" them
- Everyone is saying the same thing about the new Shrek 5 teaser – why does Fiona look like that?
- Nearly two years after it was first announced, Cowboy Bebop director's new sci-fi anime finally has a release date
- The Witcher series' new book offers a blast to Geralt's teenage past dubbed Crossroads of Ravens, and it'll be out in English this fall
- This roguelike strategy game puts you in charge of a dieselpunk alt-WW2 mech squad, and its Steam Next Fest demo is wonderfully bite-sized
- FromSoftware proves it's been the master of asset reuse for over a decade as a modder discovers Dark Souls' Blighttown is made of just "10 bits of wood"
- There's a whole world of Dark Souls-style lore hidden in this series of dress-up games, and I bet you can't tell which is which
- Palworld dev endorses this sand-powered sim that looks like Terraria with automation, which already has 97% positive reviews in Steam Next Fest
- Halo 3 streamers claim a world record by beating the game's near-impossible LASO challenge in only 4 hours without dying once
- D&D Sigil official VTT is live and totally free to download
- The Rings of Power newcomer Jamie Campbell Bower has 'revealed' his season 3 character – but it could be a Sauron-style misdirect
- Monster Hunter Wilds' massive launch is being dampened by "Mixed" Steam reviews, as hunters report "atrocious" performance issues in the action RPG
- Marvel fans are convinced Jessica Jones will return in Daredevil: Born Again season 2, but there might be another reason Krysten Ritter is in NYC
- Star Wars' Kathleen Kennedy debunks retirement reports, as she shares plans for the future of Lucasfilm: "I will die making movies"
- James Gunn denies DC casting rumors that Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe will play Clayface: "We certainly haven’t talked to or considered him"
- Nintendo Switch Online drops a game from its lineup for the first time ever, and the "concerning" move has fans worried: "This sets an upsetting precedent"
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A breaks a 24-year fashion tradition, giving its female protagonist pants for the first time in the series' history
- The Ryan Gosling-led Star Wars movie from Deadpool and Wolverine director is set "five or six years" after The Rise of Skywalker
- Two of Star Wars' biggest no-show movies get updates – but they're not completely promising
- Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077, and now Dota 2 fall to Monster Hunter Wilds as it crosses 1.3 million peak Steam players despite 49% positive reviews
- Suicide Squad's $200 million failure was so damaging, it reportedly contributed to the cancellation of Monolith's Wonder Woman game
- The Witcher 4 director refutes claims that Ciri's appearance has changed since the reveal trailer: "We have not modified it"
- I'm not saying this open-world pirate RPG is the Sid Meier's Pirates successor I've wanted for 21 years, but based on its bangin' Steam Next Fest demo, it's not not that
- February 27
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- Professor Xavier goes into cardiac arrest as X-Manhunt kicks off in Uncanny X-Men #11
- The hottest city builder in Steam Next Fest is actually a roguelike deck builder in disguise: "Break the game with thousands of insane builds"
- Metroid Dread dev channels that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow energy in a new action game with "almost infinite" ways to build your own weapon
- The most popular open-world survival game in Steam Next Fest is coming straight for my JRPG-born obsession with floating islands
- New Minecraft Movie trailer sees Jack Black and Jason Momoa race to save a colorful and cubic zombie-filled world - but not without a visit from Jennifer Coolidge
- Someone combined Diablo and League of Legends for a roguelike co-op MOBA with Risk of Rain energy, and it deserves the hype it's getting in Steam Next Fest
- Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 3 adds Stranger Things star and Eddie Marsan to cast
- Sweet liberty, a Helldivers 2 update "is breaking the Galactic War" so now the whole thing is paused, but good news: "We are not going to revert any of the damage done by this"
- You can 100% Assassin's Creed Shadows achievements as either one of the open-world RPG's playable characters, and on any difficulty too
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (Feb 28 - Mar 2)
- PUBG creator's nails-hard survival game launches this summer for $20, and its new trailer shows all the ways it'll try and kill you
- This slick roguelike deckbuilder is shoulder-to-shoulder with Balatro and Slay the Spire on Steam top sellers, and its dev is feeling the pressure: "The definition of walking among giants"
- This looter slasher mashes up Remnant 2 with shades of Final Fantasy 14 and lashings of special moves, all in an action-packed Steam Next Fest demo
- EA is "releasing the fully recovered source code" for 4 classic Command & Conquer titles, and it's the best thing a major publisher can do for game preservation
- This puzzle game almost made me want to talk to strangers after its chill Steam Next Fest demo got me hooked on organizing seating charts
- DC's new Peacemaker comic takes place in the universe of the show – and James Gunn was its story consultant
- "EA gives you enough rope to hang yourself": BioWare co-founder says working for a big game company just ain't it, even if "it was actually a pretty successful run" for Mass Effect
- My dream Sonic game is finally real and it even has online multiplayer, except it's actually this "high-speed" 3D platformer with a glorious demo in Steam Next Fest
- Legendary indie dev returns with a farming sim that couldn't be more different from the game that made them famous, all about an ex-warrior who hates the cozy life
- The first look at Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler's Green Lantern TV series is here – and DC fans are losing it over Hal Jordan's ring
- Dune and Spider-Man star Zendaya is Shrek and Fiona’s daughter in the first meme-filled teaser for Shrek 5 and this is the happiest I’ve been since Shrek 2
- TMNT rocks Steam Next Fest with the snappiest, slickest tactics RPG I've ever played
- A single frame in the new Pokemon Legends Z-A trailer gives hardcore shiny hunters and Nuzlocke runners hope for a huge quality-of-life change
- Pokemon Legends Z-A brings a "series first": Real-time dodges and commands with action RPG energy that makes the whole thing feel way more like the anime
- Despite selling well initially, the PS5 Pro has since "fallen behind" the PS4 Pro in sales, says analyst
- As players worry Monster Hunter Wilds is too easy, Capcom is already gassing up "a new level of challenge" coming in the first free update
- 20 years ago, Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom casting was actually foreshadowed in a niche Marvel show
- To celebrate Pokemon Day, Pokemon just dropped a new anime short from the studio behind Suzume – and it's adorable
- Pokemon Legends Z-A confirms its starting trio, and it leans on the Gold/Silver lineup much more than I was expecting
- A Steam Deck, but for your face? The latest rumors about Valve's new VR headset are pretty exciting
- Pokemon Company CEO responds to fans calls for more rare cards to be printed: "Those items are seen to be valuable [...] it's not our place to say that they're not"
- Pokemon Concierge season 2 finally has a release window as the Netflix anime reveals first look at new episodes
- Pokemon TCG Pocket is finally getting ranked matches along with a special event, and a new set of cards adding God itself to the gacha
- Pokemon Legends Z-A launches "late 2025" on Switch, and Mega Evolutions are returning for the first time in 7 years
- Pokemon Legends Z-A remembers it's an open-zone JRPG, adds actual parkour and platforming so you can explore the city
- Veteran Metro developers announce a new FPS that has Crysis-like exosuits and drags an acclaimed filmmaker out of a 9-year hiatus
- Pokemon Champions announced for Switch and mobile, a new PvP competition where you can fight with your Pokemon from older games
- You can play Stardew Valley in TRPG form with this completely free Ironsworn & Starforged solo RPG system hack
- It looks like the new Lord of the Rings movie Hunt for Gollum has been delayed by a year
- Movie fans are figuring out what some of the film’s most iconic props are made out of, from ice cream machines to takeout boxes
- I secretly love using this retro handheld for Sega games, but don't tell the Genesis in my living room
- Jeff Goldblum's fantasy series Kaos was Netflix's most-watched cancelled show of late 2024
- Pokemon "will go downhill" if "we become complacent and go with the flow" says CEO, who hopes the series could last another 70 years
- Not content with killing the Lord of the Rings and Wonder Woman studio, Warner Bros. may lock its brilliant Nemesis system away in patent jail for another 11 years
- Star Wars fans are convinced a Rebels planet shows up in the Andor season 2 trailer
- New Sims 4 update adds burglars, customizable tattoos – and a "horrific bug" that makes children pregnant: "This is an actual nightmare"
- Monster Hunter Wilds dev says remaking the series' old games is hard because "trying to go back to a game that was from 2004 Internet" takes so many changes it becomes a reboot
- Baldur's Gate 3 has a new contender in this Steam Next Fest RPG demo filled with talking fish, clones, and very violent bubble tea
- Dimension 20: Titan Takedown will transport four well-loved WWE superstars to ancient Athens for a D&D wrestling bonanza
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer cast pays tribute to the late Michelle Trachtenberg: "Our Buffy family lost a little sister today"
- After almost 10 years of Stardew Valley, ConcernedApe says "thank you for playing" and releases new patch on the Nintendo Switch: "I appreciate everyone who enjoys the game"
- Balatro dev says solitaire exists "at the peak of game culture" and was debatably "the most important" inspiration for his poker roguelike
- Daredevil star Charlie Cox says Andrew Garfield didn't realize he was in Spider-Man: No Way Home: "You're not in my script"
- The wait for X-Men '97 season 2 will be longer than expected, with Marvel executive confirming a 2026 release window
- Marvel EP shares hopes to release a new Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man series every year
- Palworld developer Pocketpair announces "special holiday" on Monster Hunter Wilds' launch day as most employees will probably "feel unwell" anyway
- Everything announced at Pokemon Presents 2025
- Christopher Nolan was interested in making a Bond movie but was told he wouldn't have the final cut – so he made Oppenheimer instead
- Hollywood legend Gene Hackman dies aged 95, the Oscar-winning star of Superman, The French Connection, and Unforgiven
- This survival horror Steam Next Fest demo doesn't care that its puzzles are breaking me because it knows I'll stay for the immaculate Silent Hill vibes
- February 26
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- SnowRunner fans think RoadCraft's Steam Next Fest demo isn't hardcore enough, but I just moved 3 logs 500 meters and it's one of my proudest gaming accomplishments ever
- GOG slashes classic horror FPS FEAR to $1 and speeds up its preservation program launch "to properly recognize Monolith's contributions to gaming" after shock closure by WB
- Oh no, the anime cat girls are winning me over: the coziest demo in Steam Next Fest might be this cafe life sim with coffee ASMR
- Nicolas Cage just wants to surf but keeps getting bullied by locals in bizarre trailer for new thriller being compared to Midsommar
- This open-world game imagines a cartoony Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom where the Master Sword is the Master Shield – it's coming to all platforms and I dig its Steam Next Fest demo
- A brother and sister are caught in a supernatural war of gods and monsters in new fantasy manga God Tier
- The Wheel of Time showrunner teases future of the Amazon fantasy series beyond season 3: "My job is to do everything I can to get it to the end"
- The Witcher 4 devs hint at Ciri's morality and those delicious RPG story branches: "The situation that may happen after the trailer is over is such a tough choice"
- The Boys season 5 sets a Supernatural reunion with Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins joining the cast
- Riot walks back controversial League of Legends changes: Hextech Chests, Exalted skins, and Blue Essence costs are all being reworked
- This 93% positive Steam Next Fest survival game demo wants to combine Minecraft and No Man's Sky with "RPG-style depth," and so far it's actually pulling it off
- Jack Black playing Minecraft is the most wholesome thing you'll see all day
- Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin had high praise for Resident Evil director's take on his fantasy short story, saying it "captures his voice better than anyone had in an adaptation before"
- Absolute Wonder Woman's new lasso changes everything
- Razer's new Minecraft collection celebrates the creepers we all love to hate
- Weeks after EA said Dragon Age: The Veilguard "did not resonate with a broad enough audience," BioWare's RPG is coming to PlayStation Plus as a free monthly game
- This multiplayer dungeon RPG captures the fun of MMOs like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 with no grind or subscription, and a killer Steam Next Fest demo
- New Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 stress test update nerfs one of the Dungeons & Dragons RPG's most OP subclass cantrips – and axes "physics for genitals in Photo Mode"
- Team behind slasher horror You're Next reveal their scrapped idea for a twisted sequel: "My point is, it's really good we didn't make this movie"
- Avengers: Endgame directors Anthony and Joe Russo's new Netflix sci-fi movie The Electric State is "by far and away the hardest VFX film" they've made so far
- The spirit of Burnout Paradise lives on in this fabulous bicycle racing game from the makers of my favorite indie fighting game – a true Steam Next Fest gem
- Jason Momoa pitched being cast as Lobo as soon as James Gunn got his DC job in a text with "ten billion exclamation points": "It was always part of the plan"
- Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies' "spiritual sequel" smashed its $200k Kickstarter target in under an hour, and the sci-fi fantasy MMORPG is now on track to double its goal
- Tom Hardy’s upcoming Netflix action movie from The Raid director gets its first ultra-violent teaser trailer
- The Witcher 4 devs say Ciri's actions in the RPG's reveal trailer are "different than what Geralt would do"
- After 16 years, EA brings burglars back in The Sims 4 ahead of its Businesses and Hobbies expansion – but that's not all
- William Shatner was "so impressed" by a Star Trek writer's idea for a new Captain Kirk return that he's ready to give them a shot: "I'm awaiting a pitch"
- Juggling Control 2, the Max Payne remakes, and FBC: Firebreak means developer Remedy isn't "as close as usual"
- 7 years on from the original, Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick reunite in sinister, sun-soaked first trailer for comedy thriller sequel Another Simple Favor
- Simi Liu says Shang-Chi 2 is still coming despite Destin Daniel Cretton directing Spider-Man 4: "I don’t think anything’s been impacted"
- James Gunn has held screenings for Superman and the feedback means they're "making little changes" – and won't rule out "tiny" reshoots
- The Wheel of Time showrunner explains the one big benefit of being Prime Video's lesser-known fantasy series: "Amazon's letting us fly our freak flag!"
- Marvel fans are just realizing a neat detail in Captain America: The Winter Soldier is different wherever you watch it
- An AI is trying to 'teach' itself Pokemon Red after its previous versions weren't smart enough to solve it, and it's very slowly working its way through the Kanto gym leaders
- Super Mario Odyssey and Wind Waker collide in this expressive Steam Next Fest 3D platformer that's already an early GOTY contender for me
- Daredevil: Born Again will bring to life iconic Marvel comic book panels, including a key Kingpin moment from Frank Miller that star Vincent D'Onofrio has framed in his office
- Doctor Who season 2 reveals release date that's very soon after leak – and announces an X-Men guest star
- The Walking Dead: Dead City promises "higher stakes" season 2, as AMC reveals opening two minutes and release date
- Mickey 17 director Bong Joon Ho explains the one big change he made from the original novel for the new Robert Pattinson sci-fi movie
- Kevin Feige and Dave Filoni are reportedly among the names in the running to replace Star Wars boss Kathleen Kennedy for Lucasfilm top job
- Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs says the films weren't "much fun to make" because "it's quite boring making big special effects films"
- Supergirl gets a new costume and a new comic from former TMNT writer Sophie Campbell
- Stranger Things season 5 is so top secret, even Eleven star Millie Bobby Brown won't see the full episodes before their release
- Highly anticipated Reacher spin off adds The Night Agent and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood stars to its cast
- 8BitDo just launched its new Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller - and it's leaving Hall effect thumbsticks in the dust
- The Harry Potter TV show's Dumbledore star John Lithgow says it "was not an easy decision" to sign on to the HBO reboot
- The Elden Ring anime made entirely by fans of the RPG is almost here, and even Let Me Solo Her can't wait: "They're honestly cooking up something amazing"
- Jade Empire could've joined Dragon Age and Mass Effect as "another franchise" if it wasn't for Xbox’s "absolute moronic advice," says BioWare co-founder
- Channing Tatum's Gambit movie was set to be a "screwball romantic comedy" and one of its stars thinks it's "kind of odd" that it was canceled
- Former Wonder Woman comic book writer says "every effort was made" to make the canceled open-world game "a showpiece epic": "It was a dream come true"
- Marvel Rivals CEO won't hesitate to pull the plug on more games and studios: "Support for a project may be increased or withdrawn entirely"
- The Fantastic Four runtime has seemingly been revealed, and it might be the longest MCU movie since Guardians of the Galaxy 3
- Charlie Cox says there's a traumatic scene that begins Daredevil: Born Again – and he's still not convinced it was "the right thing to do"
- Charlie Cox praises Marvel for listening to him and completely changing Daredevil: Born Again: "I don't know many companies that would do that"
- The Russo brothers’ upcoming Netflix movie The Electric State includes a section that takes place before the graphic novel due to its "vague narrative"
- Monster Hunter Wilds release date and times – here's when the behemoth action RPG unlocks
- The scariest horror game I've played in 2025 is a Steam Next Fest demo that triggers my thalassophobia even more than Subnautica
- February 25
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- I know next to nothing about survival MMO Dune: Awakening, but I just spent 40 minutes in its Steam Next Fest demo character creator, so I guess I have to play it now
- Marvel producer says Daredevil: Born Again explores a side of Matt Murdock we’ve never seen: "He's willing to sacrifice his own immortal soul"
- InZOI director says it isn't a competitor to The Sims, but "another option" and a "different experience" with "in-depth customization" and AI-powered tools
- Daredevil: Born Again producer says the MCU's new villain Muse is key to Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk's story: "That pressure's gonna come to bear and eventually explode"
- The most popular Metroidvania in Steam Next Fest is just what I'd expect from one of the best names in anime games, and it's also coming to consoles
- Poker Face season 2 gets first look as Natasha Lyonne teams up with Wicked star Cynthia Erivo
- The Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs are selling special collector's editions signed by Henry and Hans for charity, and the top bid is already over $3,500
- Open-world Wonder Woman and Lord of the Rings studio shut down alongside MultiVersus dev, Warner Bros insists it wants to focus on DC even as it kills a DC game
- With backing from Slay the Spire and Among Us devs, this Steam Next Fest roguelike inspired by an unlikely classic immediately stands out – even if I am a little confused
- Helldivers 2 Game Master Joel apparently isn't as evil as we thought: the commander-in-pain's "personal favorite" community moment is the time players helped raise money for real-life sick children
- New Lego Jurassic World T-Rex is roughly the size of a corgi
- Oscars 2025 watch guide: how to stream, what time is the ceremony, and more
- Fable is delayed until 2026, but Xbox Game Studios head says: "It's definitely worth the wait"
- An apparent ex-FromSoftware dev has a janky action RPG in Steam Next Fest, so obviously I had to play it – and yep, the opening shot is straight out of Dark Souls
- PvP shooter Mecha Break is dominating Steam Next Fest with player numbers matching Marvel Rivals and GTA 5 even as it suffers mostly negative reviews
- The first clip for Netflix thriller series You season 5 teases Joe Goldberg's chilling return to New York
- Star Wars Eclipse studio lead assures fans that Quantic Dream developers "remain unaffected" by NetEase layoffs, and "are continuing to develop our projects at full pace"
- Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actress and Uncharted's Nathan Drake join forces to host the next Future Games Show
- D&D reveals a trippy alternative to Magic: The Gathering artist Greg Staples' Dragon Delves cover art
- Invincible TTRPG due to hit Kickstarter later this year, with contributions from D&D Beyond's founder and Mork Borg's illustrator
- Amazon's Beast Games might be the most expensive TV season of all time as MrBeast admits he lost "tens of millions" on the reality series
- Daredevil: Born Again team says that it was crucial to bring Karen and Foggy back so that audiences can "feel the tragedy" of this season even more
- The new Razer Blade 18 comes with the world's first 18-inch dual-mode display, and it's up for pre-order today
- A new trailer for Train to Busan director's upcoming Netflix movie is here – and it's now one of my most-anticipated releases
- Andor season 2's trailer has reminded Star Wars fans exactly where the show is heading: "We're going to be losing a lot of people this season"
- Pokemon Presents February 2025 time – hopes for Pokemon Z-A and Switch 2 updates run high as Pokemon Day stream draws here
- DC Studios boss says Batman villain Clayface is "even more terrifying" than Penguin and Joker
- James Gunn and Zack Snyder's viral photo was posted to prove to DC fans there's no bad blood between them: "It's such a weird dynamic that's been created between factions online"
- Monster Hunter Wilds pre-load times – differences between PS5 and Xbox / PC explained
- Marvel executive confirms that Black Panther spin-off series about Okoye isn't happening, but Danai Gurira will return
- Anyone else befuddled that this ancient D&D video game just got a new DLC in 2025?
- Reacher author says Alan Ritchson is better suited to the role than Tom Cruise because Cruise is "not huge and he's not scary"
- Dying becomes a skill in this JRPG from the Danganronpa devs, and its Steam Next Fest demo is already Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam
- As "the success of Silent Hill 2 speaks for itself," Bloober announces its continued partnership with Konami and a "truly special" new joint project
- Daredevil: Born Again's Charlie Cox reveals that The Punisher star Jon Bernthal would regularly rewrite his lines during filming
- After 13 years overseeing Star Wars, Kathleen Kennedy is reportedly set to step down as Lucasfilm president
- Colin Farrell says he is "open to" doing The Penguin season 2, but has "no deep desire" to return
- James Gunn has planned six years of DC that will culminate in an Avengers-style project
- James Gunn says it's "not the plan" for Robert Pattinson to play Batman in the DCU, but he "wouldn't rule anything out"
- One of Elden Ring's best mods comes to Dark Souls 3 as a prolific FromSoftware modder gets seamless co-op up and running
- Undertale's Toby Fox seemingly confirms Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4 are drawing near, with console tests and updates underway: "Tomorrow we start testing PlayStation 5"
- The story of the next two Avengers movies will be "radical" and "challenge" audiences according to directors the Russo Brothers
- Marvel confirms a Punisher special with Jon Bernthal after Daredevil: Born Again
- I've waited 3 years for this high-speed roguelike-flavored runner, and now that it's finally playable in Steam Next Fest my eyeballs can hardly keep up
- Daredevil: Born Again first reactions say it's "unforgivably bloody" and has the potential to be the best Marvel TV series to date
- February 24
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- A month from launch, Ubisoft confirms "players have accessed Assassin's Creed Shadows ahead of its official release," advises you "stay in the shadows" to avoid spoilers
- House of the Dragon showrunner says season 3 will introduce something from George R. R. Martin's books that Game of Thrones left out: "I just thought it was cool"
- The Game of Thrones action RPG giving George R.R. Martin a run for his money on late releases is playable in Steam Next Fest, and I'm afraid it's not very good
- Balatro creator wins 18+ ratings battle with PEGI, accidentally producing limited edition copies: "I hope this change will allow developers to create without being unfairly punished"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows and Fallout among the latest games to succumb to Balatro as the hit poker roguelike adds Xbox Game Pass to its global dominance
- Stephen King is writing Mike Flanagan's adaptation of The Dark Tower: "To say too much feels like a jinx"
- Dauntless is dead: After a blockchain company buyout, a disastrous update, and brutal layoffs, the Monster Hunter-like action RPG is shutting down this May
- Monster Hunter Wilds debuts as the highest-rated game of 2025 with a 90 Metacritic score, and it's the top-selling game on Steam ahead of launch this week
- James Gunn's DC Studios puts several projects on the backburner, including Waller, The Authority, Booster Gold, and its Batman reboot
- The weirdest Steam Next Fest horror demo is only 5 minutes long, but I've been thinking about its freaky Severance vibes for days
- Original Fallout creator says he "pushed" for a happy ending with "cake and balloons" instead of the RPG's downbeat finale
- First Andor season 2 trailer reveals major Star Wars Rogue One returns and announces a strange release schedule
- BioWare co-founder dreamt of taking over EA "from the inside" if Star Wars: The Old Republic was, "like, $2 billion a year successful"
- Final Fantasy 14's funniest speedrunning beef continues as runner who lost a world record to its original champ in just 1 day returns, beats record, is promptly dethroned again
- The Witcher 3 director's upcoming vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker is "fully funded" and still on track, assures studio lead amid "rumored situation at NetEase"
- Keanu Reeves just pitched his idea for Constantine 2 to DC: "We’ve been trying to make this film for over a decade"
- How to Train Your Dragon director feels like "a bit of a hypocrite" because he's always found live-action remakes "disappointing"
- MagicCon Chicago preview panel reveals MTG Avatar: The Last Airbender, Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commanders, and more
- DC and Marvel Comics characters are set to meet again – more than 20 years since their last crossover
- I'm getting some good Banjo-Kazooie and Crash Bandicoot vibes from my favorite Steam Next Fest platformer, where you can swap water and lava to break levels
- Designer of TRPG about anthro animals escaping a devilish deal acknowledges stereotypes in both band culture and animal folklore
- All episodes of one of the best Pokemon TV shows are now free to watch on YouTube, with the reminder that more is on the way
- Elden Ring and Dark Souls dataminer "overwhelmed" as community clubs together to cover "a looming $15,000 in medical expenses" in a single afternoon
- Hideo Kojima has been confusing us for decades and even he's baffled by Captain America: Brave New World and the MCU: "What's this about the Avengers being reorganized?"
- Longlegs director Osgood Perkins says he's never going to "run off and make a video game or an X-Men movie" because of the success of his horror movies
- Daredevil: Born Again won't feature many scenes with Vincent D'Onofrio and Charlie Cox together, as the pair say they have only ever filmed "five to six" together in the past decade
- Switch 2 will launch in June for not "too much more than $400", predicts former Nintendo retail strategist
- Legendary Pokemon player brings back his most infamous strategy for another massive tournament win: "I don't think I've ever lost a tournament with Perish"
- Marvel exec teases what's next for the X-Men, including a movie in active development and "insane" X-Men '97 season 3 scripts
- One of the highest-rated anime series of all time Frieren: Beyond Journey's End is coming to Netflix this week
- Daredevil: Born Again star Vincent D'Onofrio says Ethan Hawke played a key role in convincing him that the show was in good hands following a failed attempt
- Marvel TV executive confirms Moon Knight season 2 is not happening, but the hero will show up in the MCU again
- There's a Spider-Man reference from Kingpin in Daredevil: Born Again – and it's the perfect starting point for my dream MCU crossover
- The Elder Scrolls 6 NPC auction raises $85,000 as mystery bidder snags the win from a dedicated group of RPG enthusiasts
- "Board games are about to get more expensive" says Arcane Wonders president Robert Geistlinger in talks of publishers on "razor-thin" margins
- James Cameron will reportedly open Avatar 3 with a title card saying no generative AI was used to make the movie
- Oni Press shares an exclusive preview of the first Adventure Time comic in 7 years
- James Cameron has shown an early version of Avatar 3 to "a few people" and they say it's the best and most emotional entry in the series
- Charlie Cox would rather Daredevil join the Avengers than return to the Defenders – but it's a difficult choice
- Months after porting GTA 3 to Dreamcast, the same devs are repeating the trick with Vice City, and they already have rough progress to show
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man showrunner reveals the characters Marvel wouldn't let him use, including one of comics' most bizarre villains
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 is planned for a 2026 release, and Marvel's Head of TV hopes it could become an annual show
- Dave Bautista says he has been "badgering" Netflix to hurry up with its Gears of Wars movie: "Come on Netflix, get it together"
- Persona 4's iconic singer confirms she's "recording for a new game," leaving JRPG fans wondering if a remake is finally on the cards
- Marvel's Spider-Man 2 star promises the sequel's ending doesn't mean Peter Parker will be "relegated to the couch" in Spider-Man 3
- February 23
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- Square Enix announces event for the Nier series' 15th anniversary, and fans are hoping Nier Automata will finally get a sequel after 8 years
- PUBG creator's goal for his new open-world project is to make "realistic Minecraft" complete with real geology
- This weird WarioWare-like's demo got thousands of positive Steam reviews, and now its Kickstarter's $40,000 goal has been smashed 11 times over
- Marvel fans think this Severance star would be perfect for a key MCU villain should he be recast
- Captain America: Brave New World director reveals why a more comic book accurate version of villains Sidewinder and the Serpent Society were cut
- Josh Sawyer says there's "a lot of people" at Obsidian who want to make a Pillars of Eternity Tactics game after Avowed, but the "fanbase is not humungous"
- Paul Rudd reveals his top two MCU movies and his choices prove that he's a man of taste
- Former James Bond actor Timothy Dalton reveals his "shock" at Amazon taking over the franchise, as he reveals his hopes for the future of 007
- Fantastic Four star John Malkovich says shooting the Marvel movie was very "odd" because "nothing is really there except giant screens and 18 epic cranes"
- February 22
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- Blood of Dawnwalker devs explain how the vampire RPG's "narrative sandbox" builds on what they were "known for crafting" in games like The Witcher 3
- Persona and Metaphor: ReFantazio composer's new JRPG gets a Steam Next Fest demo, and it's basically a turn-based Metal Gear Solid
- Doom: The Dark Ages developers go back to the OG 1993 FPS for inspiration: "Every time you look at it, you learn something new"
- Doctor Who season 2 release date appears to have been announced via an online advert - and it’s sooner than expected
- Ms. Marvel actor Iman Vellani got so into Captain America: Civil War that she "lost friends" over "people being Team Cap"
- OG BioShock director recommends one very BioShock-y Steam Next Fest game that already has 500 "very positive" reviews
- The 7 Marvel shows and movies to watch before Daredevil: Born Again
- Avowed director would "love to see us do more" with the RPG after laying the groundwork for sequels and DLC
- That Captain America: Brave New World cameo changed several times, but it was always going to be that character
- Captain America: Brave New World post-credits scene teases the Illuminati reveals director after the group were axed from an early draft
- The Monkey star explains the big difference between her character's death and the horror movie's more zany kills: "This had to break your heart instead of make you laugh"
- PUBG creator on how his Earth-sized open world differs from Light No Fire: "I'm not making a game. I'm building a world"
- Captain America: Brave New World director hints at why and when The Leader's divisive look was changed
- Despite Zelda: Majora's Mask basically being a horror game, one of its key devs didn't think its creepiest features were scary at all: "People on the team were like 'whoa!'"
- Corsair exec says GTA 6 is coming to PC in early 2026 and then quickly un-says that
- February 21
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- A fan-favorite Hawkeye character is returning for Daredevil: Born Again
- Former Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies dev says MMOs have "been in a rut for a long time" after World of Warcraft's popularity narrowed down "a much more diverse genre"
- MTG Avatar: The Last Airbender set revealed
- Marvel TV boss says the studio is looking at Hawkeye season 2 and Agatha All Along season 2: "Let's get the right idea and make it"
- Captain America flashes back to the Silver Age this summer with a new comic that shows what happened when Steve Rogers was first unfrozen
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 rumors have just been upgraded from podcast mentions and Call of Duty map teasers to a full countdown on the official Activision website
- Steve Rogers teams up with the Asgardian warrior Volstagg in the latest of J. Michael Straczynski's Marvel one-shots
- Marvel Rivals bans popular third-party plugin: "We deem this program as cheating," but "fear not" if you've been using it
- NetEase denies report that its CEO tried to cut Marvel from Marvel Rivals because he didn't want to pay Disney for the license
- The first event of the new Ultimate Universe will bring Miles Morales back from the core Marvel Universe
- Tired of seeing RTX 5070 Ti out of stock signs? I'd consider this 4K GPU instead
- A week after suffering webcam tragedy, blindfolded Super Mario 64 speedrunner casually breaks 3 world records in 4 days: "Another day in the office, another world record"
- DC reveals its full slate of May 2025 comics and covers featuring Batman, Superman, the Justice League, and more
- Modder leading 13-year effort to remake Oblivion in Skyrim isn't worried about an official remake: "The fact Skyblivion is nearly in a releasable state is a miracle"
- Former Skyrim animator says "gameplay is the most important thing" for The Elder Scrolls 6
- Marvel Rivals now lets Storm's ultimate turn into a raging, fiery tornado when teaming up with Human Torch - and I've never been so thankful to have hero ban
- Elden Ring player becomes the first to beat every New Game+ difficulty back to back without getting hit, in an 8-playthrough run that somehow took under 12 hours
- Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin says "there is some talk about making a movie out of Elden Ring" but admits there's a big novel-sized block in his way
- The League of Legends fighting game spin-off won't be getting its big playtest, but that's so that more of you can play it later this year
- Robert De Niro's new Netflix series is being called everything from "addictive" to "dull" as it debuts to mixed reviews and a low Rotten Tomatoes score
- The Monkey's Tatiana Maslany reacts to the horror movie's most shocking death: "It's so wrong, and I think that's why it's so right"
- Cobra Kai creator reveals a major cut finale moment – and it involves one of the Netflix series' big unanswered questions
- Furiosa and Avatar star's new action sci-fi movie breaks Apple TV Plus records, becoming its biggest movie premiere ever
- "A fun example of a bug becoming a feature": Destiny 2 accidentally made Exotic Glaives free to all classes, and Bungie says "we're going to let this ride"
- As if hell and demons weren't enough, Doom: The Dark Ages went medieval so id Software "could get more dark and sinister with the tool kit"
- Sandbox sci-fi adventure board game Wandering Galaxy just hit stores, and it's already cheaper than the Kickstarter price
- 12DOVE is changing its comments system
- Daniel Craig breaks silence on Amazon taking over James Bond franchise, by raising a martini glass to the original producers
- Angela Bassett thought she was "deserving" of an Oscar for Black Panther 2: "I put in good work over time"
- This Amazon hidden gem with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes audience score has been renewed for season 2 – and it's already been filmed in secret
- Arcane season 2 will be available outside of Netflix as physical release planned
- Pokemon reaches settlement in lawsuit over mobile game "Pocket Monster: Remake," operators "sincerely apologize" and say they've "learned our lessons"
- There may be no more news on Extraction 3 yet, but the Russo Brothers universe is expanding with a new Netflix spin-off show
- Diablo 2 creator says players treated the action RPG like a "lifestyle game" because it was fun, and MMOs like World of Warcraft had more to do with starting the live service trend
- Practice your ninjitsu because the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are coming to protect the Castle Panic board game
- Marvel has reportedly "shifted priorities" and paused development on three TV shows – including a Doctor Strange series with Wong
- Reacher season 3 breaks a series record, landing a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score for the action show
- A new Batman #1 from Matt Fraction and Jorge Jiménez launches this September with a "revamped aesthetic," a throwback costume, and a new Batmobile
- Marvel reveals its full slate of May 2025 comics and covers featuring the Avengers, the X-Men, Spider-Man, and more
- Former Witcher 3 lead says his new vampire RPG Blood of Dawnwalker has a smaller open world because "it feels more like you actually know the place" compared to "behemoths"
- The Monkey post-credits scene explained: does the new horror movie have a post-credits scene?
- The Monkey ending explained: Who dies and is the curse broken?
- February 20
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- A Sifu movie is in the works at Netflix from the John Wick director
- Hades 2 devs say "we have not recast any of our characters" in the roguelike amid concerns during the ongoing SAG-AFTRA video game strike
- After Amazon lands control of James Bond, Jeff Bezos turns to social media for ideas with predictable results as stans of all kinds swarm his replies: "Who’d you pick as the next Bond?"
- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is set to lead Martin Scorsese's new movie, which is being described as Goodfellas meets The Departed
- "It's almost like printing money": Former Sony exec says PC ports of PlayStation games are too valuable to ignore, and he wanted to see more first-party games come to PC
- Lord of the Rings life sim Tales of the Shire delayed again, now coming in July: "Every detail will be just right"
- Baldur's Gate 3 Lae'zel actor was "paranoid" about making the githyanki girlfriend’s voice "lower and lower" through Act 3 until she realized "it really works with her character development"
- A new Avatar: The Last Airbender series set after the Legend of Korra is headed to Nickelodeon
- Fortnite attempts to harness the power of Kendrick's diss tracks with "fermented freestyler" Big Dill, a hip-hop pickle who alleges T-Pain ate his family
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (Feb 21 - 23)
- First look at Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man season 2 reveals a glimpse at both Gwen Stacy and Spider-Gwen as fan-favorite character is confirmed to be joining the cast
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's Henry comes to Baldur's Gate 3 thanks to a mod commission, and our RPG hero is predictably scared and horny: "Henry’s romance could go anywhere, I think. Maybe Karlach"
- After 14 years, Elden Ring Nightreign brings back an iconic Dark Souls boss and gives him some frankly hilarious new tricks
- Turtle Beach just launched a stunning purple version of its iconic Stealth 600 Gen 3 headset
- Legendary Star Fox and Zelda developer says "having a big, huge budget" doesn't guarantee you'll make a "great game," as the best ones "are down to the best ideas"
- Razer has teamed up with Faker for its latest Viper V3 Pro special edition
- PUBG creator explains why he's making a super-hard survival game instead of PUBG 2: "This is the game I've wanted to make"
- Doom: The Dark Ages features "the largest spaces we've ever made,” but id Software knows you don't want to spend 2 hours in a single level
- Another Helldivers 2 collaboration is already in the "early stages" after the sci-fi shooter crossed over with Killzone
- Move over, Ted Lasso: Severance is now Apple TV Plus’s most-watched show
- GTA 5 is giving PC players a free upgrade that brings it up to par with the console versions and adds some PC-exclusive features
- As Twitch gives streamers 2 months to comply with its new 100-hour storage limit, creators with up to 5,000 hours of content are already struggling: "I'm so cooked man"
- Invincible and Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman's new comic Blood & Thunder looks like Blade Runner with a talking gun
- PUBG creator’s new project won't just be the hardest survival game ever made - it's aiming to be the hardest survival game anyone could possibly make
- Win The Mandalorian on 4K
- 18 years after I Am Legend was released, Will Smith has an update on working with Michael B. Jordan for the upcoming sequel
- Win Star Wars: Ahsoka on 4K
- Avowed director didn't add romance as RPG players often try to cheese companion relationships and she wanted them to "feel natural"
- Godzilla in space! IDW reveals its new shared comics universe starring the King of the Monsters
- League of Legends fans' fury grows as Riot nerfs another way to get free skins, this time as a reward for good behavior
- Amazon is taking over the James Bond franchise and fans are worried about the future of 007
- The new Scuf Valor Pro for Xbox and PC is wired only, because that's "most people's preferred method of play"
- Doom: The Dark Ages devs looked to everything from Star Wars to Batman Year One to shape the iconic shooter's next game
- The Elder Scrolls 6 sleuths use Starfield math to narrow down the Skyrim sequel's potential release window, and sorry folks, it's still looking like it's ages away
- She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany says her next horror movie with Osgood Perkins won't be anything like The Monkey or Longlegs: "There's always a little mischief"
- 2 years later, Overwatch 2 Steam reviews crawl back from 'Mostly Negative' thanks to its new perks and old loot boxes
- Daredevil: Born Again producer explains how that Ms. Marvel cameo works – and compares it to Matt Murdock's She-Hulk appearance
- Kobold Press soon to launch D&D's very antithesis: a cozy cottagecore TRPG that'll have you swaddled in childhood nostalgia
- As Deadpool co-creator claims Daredevil: Born Again was originally a "comedy", one of its stars says the creative overhaul was because they knew "what the fans wanted"
- Skyrim's foremost geographer uses weather stats to explain how it actually feels to live in each of the iconic RPG's cities
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man finale brings back fan-favorite Spidey voice actor for a perfect cameo in another role
- MTG Final Fantasy Commander decks cost 40% more than an average precon, but that hasn’t stopped them from selling out almost immediately
- Parasite director's next live-action film is reportedly a horror action movie set on the subway that he's been thinking about for 24 years
- "I don't want to lay off a team I directly led and not include myself": Marvel Rivals game director says it'd be "poor leadership" if he wasn't laid off alongside his design team
- Ethan Hawke responds to daughter Maya's claims about producers casting actors based on their number of social media followers: "This is crazy"
- As Daniel Craig drops out of DC's Sgt. Rock movie, The Bear's Jeremy Allen White is reportedly stepping in – and fans think it's an upgrade
- Japanese officials "taking appropriate action" after viral Assassin's Creed Shadows video shows destruction of their shrine: "If they had asked us, we would have refused"
- Marvel producer teases how Punisher's role fits into Daredevil: Born Again: "Frank's appearances are just insane"
- DC is fast-tracking Creature Commandos season 2 after overwhelmingly positive reaction to season 1
- Days after dev layoffs, NetEase confirms Marvel Rivals has surpassed 40 million players, celebrates the company "delivering groundbreaking gaming experiences"
- Marvel TV boss isn't ruling out other Defenders re-joining the MCU after Daredevil: Born Again: "It is certainly something that is creatively extremely exciting"
- Cyberpunk 2 associate game director reveals his greatest development secret: 10 hour loops of music like "Epic Sax Guy" that "gives me insane focus and clarity"
- After hitting 500,000 copies sold and nearly 24,000 reviews on Steam, viral $13 horror game Mouthwashing is coming to consoles this year
- February 19
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- "A really sad day for speedrunning": The world's fastest gamers brace for a new Twitch storage limit on "all highlights and uploads"
- Spider-Man and Wolverine are teaming up in their own ongoing series that ties into their secret shared history
- Marvel celebrates 50 years since Giant-Size X-Men #1 by sending Ms. Marvel Kamala Khan through time in an event that "redefines mutant history forever"
- The Last of Us season 2 release date revealed with new Ellie, Abby, and Joel character posters teasing "every path has a price"
- As Switch 2 approaches, original Xbox designer says console power doesn't matter anymore because content is king, and he "would not have done things the same way" Microsoft has
- Xbox has officially opened the generative AI floodgates, and Phil Spencer wants to use it for game preservation and save titles that "were maybe tied to unique pieces of hardware"
- Marvel producer says test audiences loved scrapped Daredevil: Born Again episodes, but "a lot" of their material made it into the final show anyway
- Massive new Hades 2 update finally adds a brutal final boss and, more importantly, a new pet sidekick
- Following Marvel Rivals layoffs, Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says studios fail big games when they don't set expectations for players: "Under promise, over-deliver"
- Super Mario 64 speedrunners thought a trick that requires landing on a spot "the width of a red blood cell" was virtually impossible - now it's been done blindfolded
- Death Stranding 2 draws ever closer as Hideo Kojima shares emotional behind-the-scenes update from "important scene" that wrapped recording for 6 voice actors at once
- The younger World's Finest Batman and Superman get a glimpse of their dark futures as DC reveals more details of the We Are Yesterday crossover event
- FromSoftware didn't work with Sony on Dark Souls because of how the company failed Demon's Souls, says ex-PlayStation boss: "We definitely dropped the ball"
- Halo gets a surprise new streaming home on Netflix – but what does that mean for season 3?
- The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep may be in the Netflix top 10, but it's struggling to surpass the franchise's last movie
- Borderlands and Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands to hit Upper Deck with limited-edition gallery prints, trading card sets, and a trick-taking game
- Former exec admits Amazon tried and failed to beat Steam, says the company "needed to build something dramatically better" but "gamers already had the solution" in Valve's store
- The team behind Top Gun: Maverick are reuniting for a new UFO conspiracy thriller
- Cancelled The Last of Us Online game was "great," but former PlayStation exec says Naughty Dog had to scrap it after Bungie told them how much work it would be
- First teaser for follow-up horror from Talk to Me directors is just as unsettling as I thought it would be
- Star Fox and Zelda veteran kept seeing Shigeru Miyamoto in his dreams after leaving Nintendo: "I'd start developing a game and then I'd wake up"
- Dragon Age and Anthem producer says stop harassing developers "because you don't know the circumstances that resulted in the thing that you're mad at"
- Life is Strange director says Don't Nod returned to its episodic roots in Lost Records because he's not "invested" in Netflix's binge model
- The Killer – the hitman comic that inspired the Michael Fassbender movie of the same name – returns with Affairs of the State II
- James Gunn cryptically suggests that the DCU is building towards a Superman and Batman crossover
- Cobra Kai season 6, part 3 has dropped almost 9 million views from part 1 on Netflix
- Reacher's Alan Ritchson shares his hopes for the future of the Prime Video series ahead of season 4: "We're going to continue to honor the fact that Reacher really is a lone wolf"
- God of War: Ascension's online multiplayer is still kicking almost 12 years on, but its veterans will destroy you on sight: "Everyone who plays this right now is literally a God"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' new Canon Mode looks like the best way to play because it makes the cutscenes feel a lot more natural
- Choose-your-own-adventure style RPG Fighting Fantasy was a UK obsession in the '80s, and it's finally coming to the US
- The director of the first Shogun TV show isn't a fan of the 2024 adaptation: "It won all the awards because there were no big shows against it"
- Move over, Ridley Scott: Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is the latest film criticized for poor historical accuracy following first look
- Overwatch 2 Season 15 finally lets you cancel emotes mid-animation, and it's unironically the best casual change since launch
- Ke Huy Quan recalls Steven Spielberg playing a hilarious "big joke" on Harrison Ford when the Indiana Jones star visited The Goonies set
- Ben Stiller says Step Brothers led him to cast Adam Scott in Severance: "It’s when I knew he was an incredible actor"
- Fantastic Four star John Malkovich reveals he's turned down Marvel before because of bad pay: "If you're going to hang from a crane in front of a green screen for six months, pay me"
- 4 years later, the League of Legends MMO remains a major project for Riot Games' co-founder who says it's "exactly the type of company" that should be making MMOs
- The Boys season 5 gets a bloody update from Hughie star in gory behind the scenes snap: "Work's been going great guys"
- Hollow Knight: Silksong fans reach as-yet-unheard-of levels of cope as the Metroidvania's Nintendo Switch store page briefly disappears
- Marvel Rivals developer confirms layoffs to a US-based design team, but insists "we are investing more, not less, into the evolution and growth of this game"
- One Oscars voter slams the Academy for "f**king up so bad" with Denis Villeneuve and Dune 2's snub
- Assassin's Creed Shadows parody game satirizes complaints about historical accuracy by giving Yasuke an assault rifle and sports car
- Marvel fans have just noticed a deep-cut comic Deadpool variant in Deadpool and Wolverine, and it's a perfect hidden joke
- Dune 3 is now in pre-production as Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi sequel prepares to start filming this summer
- Ex-Witcher 3 lead says CDPR initially worried the RPG's massive story didn't fit "the play style of an open world game"
- As Activision stays quiet, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 actor casually reveals there's another remaster "that's about to come out"
- February 18
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- Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam
- Steam Next Fest hasn’t even started, but I’m already obsessed with the subtly Soulslike demo for this “hardcore” action RPG with over 3,000 reviews of its own
- The original Gwen Stacy is coming back as Dark Gwenpool, a violent, Deadpool-esque mercenary with "Weapon-X abilities"
- Overwatch 2 director doesn't want to go back to the "chaos" or "really low lows" of Overwatch's launch, but "there is a shift in that direction" to let players feel powerful
- Marvel Rivals apparently hit with significant layoffs despite "incredibly successful" launch: "This is such a weird industry"
- Marvel Rivals devs are trying to curb the triple-support meta starting with Cloak & Dagger nerfs and buffs to Venom and Magik
- Doubling-down on League of Legends' worst PR disaster in years, developer Riot locks hotly anticipated cosmetic behind $240 gacha wall
- Latest MTG Final Fantasy spoilers reveal first-ever Saga creature, Emet-Selch, and retro PSX art
- Behold, Super Mario 64 speedrunners can do "an absurdly lengthy and precise series" of 41 button presses to make Mario stand underwater: "This has no known practical purpose"
- Pedro Pascal seeks revenge in the first trailer for bloody new horror movie from Marvel directors
- Disney Villainous: Unstoppable! will include refreshed gameplay, a shared board, and communal rules
- Charlie Cox wants Daredevil to be in one of the new Avengers movies: "I feel like it'd be really cool for him to get that kind of upgrade"
- There's a reason Josh Hartnett keeps taking unexpected roles, from serial killer in Trap to a physicist in Oppenheimer: "It's hard to be surprised"
- Daredevil producers originally wanted Charlie Cox to play Foggy Nelson in the Netflix series, but he outright refused: "I'm only reading for Matt"
- Mr. Terrific's origin story will be "dramatically revisited and expanded" in a new solo comic
- "Project Hadar needs an extraordinary crew" says Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 studio, sharing lots of job openings for the studio's first original game
- He's "not allowed to announce it", but Peaky Blinders creator says the saga will "continue" after the Netflix film
- Still plagued by Gwent memes, The Witcher 3 director's new vampire RPG makes you think twice about playing mini-games while the world burns
- Marvel fans are discussing MCU post-credits scenes that still haven't had any pay-off, from Shang-Chi to Spider-Man: Homecoming
- A month after the GTA 5 mod recreating GTA 4 was shut down, its modders are now "uncertain if this takedown request is genuine"
- After 15 years, Elden Ring Nightreign introduces a FromSoftware first: you can stab a dude with an arrow like you're Legolas
- Captain America: Brave New World merchandise reveals cut characters and a wildly different look for The Leader – and Marvel fans are wondering what happened
- After The Odyssey first look confirmed Matt Damon's role, fans are speculating about the rest of the stacked cast in the Christopher Nolan movie
- Reacher star Alan Ritchson weighs in on the running joke that the action hero never goes to the gym in the Prime Video series: "It’s a little ridiculous"
- "I thought PlayStation was finished": Former Sony boss says TV sales were the only thing that could save the company when the PS3 was "losing a billion dollars"
- MTG Final Fantasy Commander precons meld essential Magic archetypes with favorites from across the FF series
- The Umbrella Academy is returning to comics with a new storyline featuring the Sparrows from season 3 of the TV show
- Japanese game developers are using scent and gesture board games to help battle dementia
- Sony finally managed to pry Final Fantasy 7 away from Nintendo thanks to a "schmoozer" of a former employee who hung out with Square Enix executives at his parties, according to one former PlayStation boss
- 73,000 words of drama about GTA 5 RP mod team's acquisition by Rockstar appear online, with claims that no original devs are left and the project is dying
- The Monkey post-credits scene is reportedly a trailer for Longlegs director Osgood Perkins' next horror movie
- Cobra Kai creators say they have been talking "nonstop" about "multiple" spin-off ideas
- Zoe Saldaña reveals she made a 26-year commitment to James Cameron's Avatar movies: "It's a gift"
- Star Alan Ritchson says he's glad Reacher meets his match in season 3 because he’s not like other actors who want their character to be invincible: "What kind of fun is that for audiences?"
- She-Hulk star would "absolutely" return in Daredevil: Born Again: "I have a lot of serious bones in my body"
- Save $10 on the new 2025 Monster Manual and throw gribbly horrors at your D&D group for less
- More than 4 years after its last Elder Scrolls 6 teaser, Bethesda officially re-acknowledges the RPG - using the exact same picture we saw in 2018
- Cobra Kai's co-creator gets candid about the one thing he would have changed about the hit Netflix series – and how it impacted the final season
- 15 years on, Reacher star Alan Ritchson reveals that a sequel series to his cult sitcom is in the works
- Robert Pattinson reveals that he finally knows what The Batman 2 is about, but he's not giving anything away
- Trap star Josh Hartnett campaigned for his character's distinctive blonde hair in new action movie that's basically Bullet Train on a plane
- Square Enix kills Final Fantasy game's mobile version after being unable to "completely fix" a bug stopping fans from accessing their additional paid content
- February 17
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- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 just got even better to me after watching this video showing NPCs scavenging and a dev explaining "nobles might ignore cheap items, but beggars will pick them up"
- No, Marvel Rivals developer NetEase isn't intentionally planting fake leaks to mess with everyone, but its datamined characters aren't guaranteed to appear in the future, either
- In a world of live-service chasing, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 proves people still love single-player games as it sells 2 million units in under 2 weeks
- The Last of Us director Neil Druckmann doesn't have the "confidence" to plan for sequels: "I'm not saving some idea for the future"
- Final Fantasy creator says the original JRPG's programmer was "like a god" to him: "I still strongly feel that the core program itself is the ‘life’ of a game"
- GTA 5 is "the standard-bearer for the industry over three generations," but GTA 6 publisher's CEO isn't taking that for granted: "We don't claim success until it occurs"
- As Harrison Ford makes his MCU debut in Captain America: Brave New World, Marvel fans are discussing the franchise's best recasts
- Blank Slate, the board game TikTok is doing summersaults over, is currently at its cheapest price ever
- The first look at Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey shows Matt Damon ready for battle
- 20 years later, Black Hawk Down star Josh Hartnett says new action movie Fight or Flight brings him back to his stunt-sequence heyday
- 17 years after creating one of TV's most famous anti-heroes, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan wants more good guys
- How to Train Your Dragon director's "test screening" comments about the animated movie have proved controversial with fans
- We're "closer than ever" to getting Constantine 2, and Keanu Reeves is "super excited" about it
- Cobra Kai creator shares touching behind the scenes look at Ralph Macchio's final day on set: "Goodbye for now"
- GTA 3 originally gave players a wanted level for running a red light, but "This was not popular with the team," so a developer "quickly removed it"
- The years-long GTA 6 debate over what happens to GTA Online has been addressed by Take-Two's CEO: "We've shown a willingness to support legacy titles when a community wants to be engaged with them"
- After almost 2 years of attempts, Dark Souls legend completes his brutal 7-game "God Run 3": Demon's Souls to Elden Ring without taking a single hit, all at level 1
- Nearly 70 years after its creation, I can finally buy the wargame designed by my favorite anti-war novelist
- Dune 3 will reportedly start filming this summer, a year earlier than expected
- Fallen London tops out as the most funded tabletop RPG in 2025 with a whopping $687,644 in pledges, and growing
- Three seconds of fresh Harvey Specter footage is enough to get us hyped for his upcoming appearance in "multiple episodes" of the new Suits spin-off
- Retro Gamer celebrates Capcom’s greatest fighting games
- Despite one of the MCU's lowest Rotten Tomatoes scores, Captain America: Brave New World has a massive opening weekend, already making back its reported production budget
- Invincible creator says they're working at a "breakneck pace" to release new seasons every year: "That is the goal"
- 6 years after Rare's survival game was announced, Xbox boss Phil Spencer says the long wait is because "we've been able to give those teams time in what they're doing"
- Microsoft veteran and former Blizzard president knows "loyal Xbox gamers are mad" about exclusives launching on PS5 and Nintendo Switch but "that isn't going to change anything"
- As Avowed joins Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity in Obsidian's portfolio of great RPGs, the studio aims to outlive us all by making it to its 100th birthday in 2103
- One of Captain America: Brave New World's most hidden Easter eggs is an Incredible Hulk callback that you almost certainly won't catch on your first viewing
- A Fantastic Four-themed IMAX countdown is getting Marvel fans excited for the upcoming MCU movie
- Trap star Josh Hartnett's wild new thriller Fight or Flight is designed to be "be an anti John Wick", but with the same killer action
- February 16
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- Blindfolded Super Mario 64 speedrunner gets near world record pace, doesn't realize the run's been invalidated by a broken webcam until it's already over
- Marvel fans have a theory about the formation of the Thunderbolts – and Valentina's motives
- With Indiana Jones and Forza Horizon 5 ports, Phil Spencer isn't "trying to move" Nintendo Switch and PS5 players "over to Xbox anymore"
- 20 years later, Star Wars fans are reflecting on one of the saga's most poignant moments
- Xbox CEO Phil Spencer doesn't "want to see every game turn into some big live service," says Game Pass allows for more "games that have a beginning, middle and end"
- Overwatch 2 director reckons it would be "very difficult" to run a shooter that isn't free-to-play now, but the model's also changing how games are designed
- New horror movie from Longlegs director The Monkey will be the first film ever to screen in churches and theaters simultaneously
- Take-Two CEO says GTA 6's "creative genius is human" and believes in paying developers "for their work if it's replicated by AI after"
- Netflix CCO claims that Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer would have had same cultural impact if it was a Netflix exclusive
- Monster Hunter Wilds director defends its freakiest new monster from players hoping to hunt it to extinction: "There are people who find Rompopolo cute, I just want to say!"
- Russian Doll star Natasha Lyonne to star as an axe-wielding heroine in upcoming adaptation of a DC horror comic
- February 15
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- The Witcher 3 director's new vampire RPG gives you the freedom "to kill off a lot of NPCs, and a lot of them can be really important NPCs"
- The random events in Elden Ring Nightreign are the funniest thing FromSoftware's ever cooked up, from a rain of ants to Morgott jump scares
- One scene from Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl was inspired by Lord of the Rings, but it's so subtle, fans may not have noticed
- Captain America: Brave New World director denies reports that the Marvel movie went through multiple reshoots, saying it had the standard amount for "all of these movies"
- Baldur's Gate 3 Lae'zel actor is enjoying romancing herself in the RPG again because "there's a lot of the stuff I've kind of forgotten about"
- Rejoice! Elden Ring Nightreign has a feature that FromSoftware fans have wanted for years: a DPS test dummy in the hub
- Production has started on Daredevil: Born Again season 2 as producer shares behind the scenes photo
- Monster Hunter Wilds lead doesn't watch what similar action RPGs are doing and the results have "sort of spoken for themselves"
- Monster Hunter Wilds director thinks the weapon balance is much closer this time: "They're all hopefully nearly as viable as each other," but he's "confident, not cocky"
- Stranger Things star Maya Hawke claims some producers cast actors based on their social media follower counts
- Marvel Rivals' success is actually "really great" for Overwatch 2, and the FPS's director says the "pressure" that Blizzard feels is mostly "internal"
- Marvel fans are loving Captain America: Brave New World way more than critics as very divisive Rotten Tomatoes score emerges
- 2 weeks after launch, Escape from Tarkov-style survival horror mashup Level Zero: Extraction ends development because it "underperformed" expectations
- Punch-Out speedrunner "took 75,000 attempts over nearly 5 years" landing 1-in-10,000 luck and 21 frame-perfect punches to finally beat Mike Tyson in under 2 minutes
- Christopher Nolan's new movie The Odyssey adds Pearl and X scream queen Mia Goth to star-studded cast, but it may not be a speaking role
- February 14
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- Monster Hunter lead producer agrees PC gaming is key for Japanese games: "There are more players than ever playing on PC, including in Japan"
- Ultimate Peter Parker is officially mentoring his son as Spider-Man, the new Ultimate Sabretooth is coming, and more revealed in Marvel's May 2025 Ultimate Universe solicitations
- Ex-CDPR devs' new open-world vampire RPG is aiming for "the quality level of The Witcher 3," but since it's a smaller studio, only about a 30-40 hour campaign
- Hyper Light Breaker devs were "caught off guard a bit by how oppressive the difficulty was for players," even if some people are "very upset that we’ve made it easier"
- Split Fiction's Josef Fares thinks game devs should embrace AI: "I can understand the fact that some people could lose their jobs, but that goes for every new technology"
- After 40 years, a sequel to The Goonies is finally in the works and Steven Spielberg is back to produce
- An animated movie you've probably never heard of is on track to break the two billion mark at the box office
- "I really hate how we did it": The Witcher 3 quest lead says there are parts of the iconic RPG he still wishes he could "time travel and fix"
- Rockstar creates official Discord server and immediately gets flooded by horny Among Us fanart and demands for GTA 6
- Bayonetta and Okami director "would love to see the Virtual Console rebooted" on Switch 2: "That's something that I would really want to ask Nintendo for"
- After a hard launch, Hyper Light Breaker dev says negative reviews were key because "you can’t pay for QA of that caliber! That all comes from true giving a damn"
- The big Thunderbolts theory about Taskmaster may not be so straightforward
- In one day a bunch of dwarves chipped in over $380,000 for $85 mugs made with "a rather expensive polymer," which is somehow perfectly on-brand for Deep Rock Galactic
- 6 years after it was announced, The Handmaid’s Tale sequel has found its lead in Presumed Innocent star
- Yellowjackets star Simone Kessell on Lottie's connection with Callie in season 3: "She's intrigued by her"
- Star Wars: The High Republic's final arc will force Keeve Trennis to face her fears – and her future with the Jedi
- Baldur's Gate 3's Shadowheart actor and her real-life partner "are finally playing opposite each other" in this gorgeous fantasy action game set in "shattered" London
- "Rockstar is controlled by no one, including their publisher": Ex-Blizzard boss says Borderlands 4 "doesn't matter" in response to fans trying to narrow the GTA 6 release window down
- Ultra-violent Daredevil: Born Again trailer reveals first look at new Punisher logo
- Cobra Kai creators explain how they included a major Karate Kid character in the final season: "We’re paying homage to a hero"
- A search engine mix-up had Avowed players declare that an Indian politician was "John Avowed" – and they've already made him in-game
- My favorite cozy nature card game is going cheap right now
- The first Elden Ring Nightreign network test "has ended" after a few disastrous hours, and "an additional network test is being considered" to make up for it
- Obsidian insisted that Avowed wouldn't have romance, but that wasn't quite true, because there's at least one eligible bachelor, and he's voiced by an iconic Mass Effect heartthrob
- Dark Souls and Elden Ring owner says Shadow of the Erdtree boosted revenue, and plans to expand its gaming division thanks to investment from Sony
- Exclusive Lorcana card reveal gives Disney's best couple a 'legendary' makeover
- Clayface attracts attention of two horror directors as the upcoming movie in James Gunn's DCU is rumored to be a "horror-thriller-tragedy"
- Elden Ring Nightreign network test starts with a stumble as PlayStation servers go down for maintenance just as it begins
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 actor follows Baldur’s Gate 3 casts' streaming tradition: "Obviously I'm going to try and f*** myself"
- Pathfinder NPC romance rules will let players forge loving relationships or "have a villains to lovers arc", much to their GMs dismay
- After appearing in everything from Fallout to Final Fantasy, Naughty Dog nearly didn't cast Abby's actor in The Last of Us 2 until it noticed her audition had one thing no one else's did
- Ubisoft's revenue is way down, but Assassin's Creed Shadows might save it as preorders track alongside Odyssey's 10 million-copy haul
- Yellowjackets star hints at twist for her character in season 3: "You're gonna realize that maybe you've been seeing more of her than you thought you were"
- First reactions to Parasite director's new delayed sci-fi movie Mickey 17 say it's "worth the wait" and praise Robert Pattinson’s "brilliant performance"
- After walking back on Marvel Rivals' mid-season rank reset, NetEase Games is also adjusting ranked rewards to give you more time to grab the free Invisible Woman skin
- Robert Pattinson sums up all of our thoughts on The Batman 2 delay, but says it starts shooting at the end of the year
- Animal Crossing meets Breath of the Wild meets an MMO? I can see why Fantasy Life i has been delayed so many times, but it's finally coming out soon
- Marvel producer says Captain America: Brave New World's Wolverine link is part of the plan to "sprinkle" X-Men references in the MCU
- Former Blizzard boss says "GTA 6 is king" and "everyone will move their release" when it gets a launch date: "It is really the only game that has the power to do this today"
- Captain America: Brave New World post-credits scenes: how many are there and what does it mean for the future of the MCU?
- February 13
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- Honor Among Thieves 2 still isn't happening, but a Dungeons & Dragons Netflix series is reportedly in the works from the Deadpool and Wolverine director
- Before he was Cyberpunk 2's associate director and was just "employee #86," CDPR dev says it took him 46 tries to beat an infamous boss in The Witcher 2: "I was losing my mind"
- Marvel says what the hell, adds a Hell Hulk to Hellverine #6
- True Detective's new location might seem a little strange, but HBO TV boss says season 5 is "just as powerful"
- The first script for The Witcher 3's best quest was 40 pages long before a single line of dialog was even added
- Ralph Macchio wants to see a Cobra Kai movie in "two or three years" if Karate Kid: Legends does well: "I will never say never"
- Godzilla Minus One director says writing on the highly anticipated sequel is underway and this time it will have a bigger budget
- Red Hulk #4 pits Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross and his allies against an army of Doombots
- Diablo 4 boss would push for patches to have more fun stuff to balance out unpopular but necessary nerfs: "Lots of medicine, don't see much sugar"
- Elden Ring streamer who beat Shadow of the Erdtree with her mind is already preparing to annihilate Nightreign in the most sci-fi way possible: "I haven’t touched a controller in ages"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (Feb 14 - 16)
- 28 years after his death, Onimusha: Way of the Sword has recast one of Japan's most legendary actors in one of his most iconic roles
- First trailer for Twisted Metal season 2 starring Anthony Mackie teases the wildest character from the video game yet
- The Sims 4 fans think one of The Sims 2's most infamous NPCs is returning in the new Businesses and Hobbies expansion pack: "Pls bring burglars back"
- The Palworld lawsuit gets more complicated as Nintendo bags a US patent that sounds a lot like one of the reasons it's suing Pocketpair in Japan
- House of the Dragon season 3 will start with one of the bloodiest battles ever written by George R.R. Martin
- Split Fiction director Josef Fares says Ubisoft is "struggling" and should make a co-op Splinter Cell game: "Don't chicken out to do single-player; just say this is split-screen only"
- Elden Ring Nightreign director says it wasn't always a PvE battle royale game: "That's something that we tried and we thought it worked well, so it stuck"
- Dynasty Warriors' new Vampire Survivors-ish roguelike is maybe the perfect spin-off for a series already known for endless enemy hordes
- 2 years after Dark and Darker was first pulled from Steam, Korean court rules that developer Ironmace must pay Nexon $5.87 million for trade secret infringement
- Nearly a decade later, the first trailer for surprise sequel The Accountant 2 arrives where Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal reunite to solve a murder
- Liberty save us, Helldivers 2 just lost a planet to the deadly black hole we created last year after spaghettifying Meridia, and the singularity is still on a path to Super Earth
- A developer porting Minecraft to the Dreamcast is now able to "Blast through an existing world file at 2,800 km/h"
- Digimon Story is back after 7 years with a big-budget turn-based JRPG to "bring the charm of Digimon to even more people"
- The Rings of Power has been renewed for season 3 – and the show is jumping ahead several years
- Until Dawn movie gets new trailer, and it looks like a mixture of Cabin in the Woods and Happy Death Day
- As nearly 2 million sales laugh in the face of live-service pushes, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's success "is a reminder" to release "great" games: "High-quality teams need to have the resources and the time to execute their visions"
- Wanderhome TRPG designer says pairing with Munchkin and GURPS publisher means the team can create "Without getting bogged down in the administrative weeds"
- Borderlands 4 will add swimming, and fans don't seem impressed: "You could also swim in Turok on the N64, big whoop"
- Captain America: Brave New World ends a surprising 17-year Marvel streak with its no-nonsense opening
- Playing Elden Ring Nightreign solo sounds like a bad idea to me, but the director says "you don't have to babysit one another" and "you can all go your different ways"
- After Helldivers 2 and Astro Bot success, live service and family games are genres PlayStation wants to "expand in the future"
- Invincible showrunner reveals meaning behind new blue suit – and it ties to Spider-Man
- After Sigourney Weaver said she should be in Avatar, Anya Taylor-Joy says it's her "dream" to be Na'vi: "I watched that movie eight times in a row once"
- After George RR Martin praised the next Game of Thrones spin-off, HBO is gearing up to give it another two seasons, as a "promising" Targaryen spin-off is also teased
- Dave Bautista wants to be in both DC and Marvel's futures, but rules out a Drax return in the new Avengers movie: "The character ran its course"
- If you were wondering where the new Death Stranding 2 trailer was yesterday, it looks like Hideo Kojima is still working on it
- Dark Souls meets Death Stranding in Hell is Us, a dark action-adventure game with an unforgiving open world – and it's coming very soon
- Fluxx designers are on a roll this month with yet another announcement: Mystery Fluxx
- I think Lego Roses make the perfect Valentine's Day gift, and they're now cheaper than ever
- Xbox won't have Metal Gear Solid 3 remake's Ape Escape mode, but it is getting a crossover that's arguably better
- Nvidia's entry-level RTX 5060 GPU could sell out instantly this spring, and the budget player in me is already in tears
- No one is going to predict what happens in Fallout season 2, teases Ella Purnell: "There's some big twists"
- HBO teases how many seasons The Last of Us will run for – and it's more than we expected
- GTA 6 release window may have been narrowed down further thanks to Borderlands 4's September launch and Take-Two boss's hint that the company wouldn't "stack up huge releases unnecessarily"
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a full remake because it has to "stand strong enough on its own merits for new players to enjoy"
- Returnal is a roguelike, Saros is a roguelite: "Permanent resources and progression" make "every death valuable" in Housemarque's new shooter
- Cobra Kai showrunners talk that emotional finale, explain explosive ending for the Karate Kid franchise’s two biggest villains: "We thought that was the most dramatic way to go out"
- Cobra Kai showrunners explain why that fan-favorite Karate Kid franchise actor didn’t show up in the final season: "Our hope is that there’s more Karate Kid stories in the future"
- Ralph Macchio explains how the emotional, nostalgic ending of Cobra Kai is a perfect send-off for the franchise: "It's a big, fat, warm embrace and in a world that isn't always warm and embracing"
- Splitgate was eclipsed by Halo Infinite's launch, and 4 years later Splitgate 2 is back with an open alpha to dance on Master Chief's grave
- February 12
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- There was no Bloodborne at the State of Play, obviously
- Stellar Blade finally hits PC this June alongside the Nikke crossover that's every bit as horny as you'd expect
- Lies of P DLC Overture is coming this summer and almost sounds like a full prequel: "I wonder if we subconsciously aimed to create a 'developers’ cut' of Lies of P"
- State of Play's big reveal was Saros, a "new single-player IP that builds on Returnal's award-winning third-person action" from the roguelike maestros at Housemarque
- Sony may never give us Days Gone 2, but it did just announce Days Gone Remastered is coming to PS5 with three new modes: Horde, Permadeath, and Speedrun
- Former GTA 5 lead properly shows off his new city-sized action game coming this summer, and yep, it looks like Cyberpunk 2077 meets GTA
- Marvel promises "Nothing is sacred" as it teases the resurrection of the original Gwen Stacy, and also a "long-lost loved one" for Jean Grey
- Over a year after Sega revealed its grand IP revival, Shinobi: Art of Vengeance is officially coming this August from the devs behind the incredible brawler Streets of Rage 4
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza will soon get a playable demo and an unexpectedly adorable Dave the Diver crossover
- Shrek and Interstellar star John Lithgow to play Dumbledore in HBO's Harry Potter TV show
- Metal Gear Solid 3 remake release date confirms the PlayStation leak: Snake returns this August
- The studio behind one of 2017's most underrated shooters announced a new sci-fi FPS at State of Play, and it looks like Doom meets Armored Core
- Sonic Racing CrossWorlds announcement trailer proves Sega is coming for Mario Kart 9's throne with transforming cars and a closed beta this month
- Borderlands 4 release date set for September, and Gearbox has a dedicated reveal show coming this spring
- Monster Hunter Wilds has already revealed its first free update, and it's adding one of my all-time favorite monsters this spring
- Doctor Doom officially rules the Earth in One World Under Doom #1, and he's kind of doing a suspiciously good job at it
- Diablo 4's second expansion won't come out until 2026
- Just a week after launch, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 dev confirms mod support is coming to PC: "Bohemia is about to get even more exciting"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows "will look stunning even on the lowest settings," and if you say you can tell the difference in this PC comparison shot you're a liar
- Hello Kitty Island Adventure players are being mercilessly stalked by Cinnamoroll, a bipedal puppy who doesn't blink: "It's actually kinda freaking me out"
- After Marvel Rivals ate its lunch, Blizzard wants Overwatch 2 to continue being the "best competitive team-based hero shooter"
- Overwatch 2's next seasons go hard after Marvel Rivals lit a fire under Blizzard: upgradeable perks, a big third-person mode, and loot boxes are all coming
- Absolute Batman #5 pays homage to an iconic scene from The Dark Knight
- After spending 2 years and $40,000 collecting every Pokemon card pack ever made, streamer Ludwig's collection is only worth $3,000
- As EA shifts its focus from The Sims 2 back to The Sims 4, The Sims 3 remains a mess on modern PCs despite a recent update – but one fan's got a solution
- Controversial version of Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall's fan remaster delisted from GOG, storefront says it "no longer fulfills its purpose of providing a hassle-free modded experience"
- Pokemon TCG: Destined Rivals leaks suggest the upcoming set won’t feature Team Rocket as prominently as its Japanese counterpart
- Nintendo Switch 2's most unexpected feature so far? Joy-Cons that attach upside-down, according to a new patent
- Romantic tabletop RPG and board game deals to spice up Valentines 2025 for a full spectrum of lovers
- The Wii version of N64 classic GoldenEye almost didn't have guns in it because the James Bond producer "did not really want anything that was violence"
- RTX 5070 release date could be pushed to March, but I think that might be a good thing
- Developer behind beloved platformer Limbo regains ownership of his indie studio, announcing that "the road ahead will be entirely different"
- Elden Ring Nightreign network test times – here's when you can play the beta
- Pokemon's myth-like status as the world's highest-grossing media franchise thrown into question as Wiki editor says it may have been surpassed and we just don't know it
- Netflix reveals first teaser for season 3 of record-breaking sci-fi thriller Alice in Borderland
- "You and I will have legal problems": FPS dev threatens action against rival streamers who've taken more than $10k "from studios we compete with"
- New trailer for How to Train Your Dragon live-action movie is here, and it looks just as fun and emotional as the animated version
- Assassin's Creed Shadows Japanese voice actor says applying his native language to an English script about Japan was "an unusual and interesting experience"
- Balatro creator declares one Joker a reference to an infamous 17-year-old meme, even if it wasn't originally intentional: "This is less of a 'confirmed' and more of a 'lmao it is now'"
- Everything announced at the PlayStation State of Play February 2025
- Elden Ring Nightreign launches this May, costs $40, and already has DLC cooking
- Elden Ring Nightreign collector's edition revealed: $200 gets you 24 centimeters of hero and a proper artbook, or drop $190 for another fancy helmet
- Netflix is calling its new samurai show Shogun meets Squid Game, and it sounds like a must watch
- Thunderbolts actor prefers his MCU costume this time around for one very specific reason: "They made my helmet not look like the end of a penis"
- Captain America star Anthony Mackie says he really wants to work with Chris Evans again amid Avengers: Doomsday rumors
- Monster Hunter Wilds' endgame bosses may be a lot tougher than you're used to since the devs don't want you to "breeze through" just because you have the right gear
- Palworld dev Pocketpair has received "hundreds" of pitches to its publishing arm, and its manager sympathizes with devs "desperate for funding" who could end up with "horrific contracts"
- Crytek lays off around 60 developers, puts Crysis 4 "on hold," and now seems solely committed to FPS Hunt: Showdown
- Modiphius sets date for delayed Fallout New Vegas TRPG sourcebook, alongside a solo adventure that lets you play as a super mutant, ghoul, or robot
- GTA 6 and the Nintendo Switch 2 could help the video game market "get back on a growth trajectory" if they both release in 2025, says analyst
- Marvel fans are even more excited for Daredevil: Born Again following Charlie Cox's cameo in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
- AMD is allegedly cooking up an RX 9070 XT with 32GB VRAM, but I've no idea who it's for
- The Invincible season 3 finale synopsis has confirmed a major new arrival – and fans are convinced we're finally getting Conquest
- Invincible keeps asking Bryan Cranston to star, and he keeps turning them down: "That has become our tradition"
- Former Unity and EA boss "was the worst CEO in video games," says the arguably worse ex-boss of Activision Blizzard
- First reactions to Captain America: Brave New World compare the Marvel movie to Winter Soldier, but point out some major issues
- Former Ultima Online lead wants his new MMO to satisfy the "huge, huge appetite" for "a more immersive parallel world" like the ones in Sword Art Online and Animal Crossing
- February 11
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- D&D sickos rejoice: Signs of Neverwinter Nights 2 remaster emerge hinting at the RPG sequel's first Steam release 19 years after launch
- With one hand for each character, Elden Ring master beats Shadow of the Erdtree and its infamous final boss while playing on PC and PS5 at the same time
- Dev behind Battlefield 3's iconic jet mission had even grander plans, said "f*** it" instead and just made an "awesome cinematic jet experience"
- Mortal Kombat 2 unveils the first look at The Boys star Karl Urban's Johnny Cage in the most Johnny Cage way imaginable
- The director of Monster Hunter Wilds was sneaking around the beta: "There are players out there who'd have no idea to this day that they were actually playing with the director"
- Brian Michael Bendis, Jody Houser, Greg Pak, and a huge list of other comics creators unite for new LA Strong charity anthology
- As League of Legends fans reel over loot controversy, fans of ex-Riot devs' hot new MOBA seize the chance to promote their game instead
- Elden Ring Nightreign beta codes are finally being sent out, but many PS5 and Xbox Series X players are reporting the same issue – they've seemingly got access to the wrong platform
- The mystery of the Thunderbolts asterisk might have been solved by a new poster
- When is Captain America: Brave New World on streaming? Speculation on the potential Disney Plus release date
- Elden Ring saxophone speedrunner thanks Monster Hunter Wilds devs for "creating doot-based gameplay" as he uses his jazzy controller to power the action RPG's giant sax weapon
- Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor hits out at RPG devs trying to recruit them for their Disco Elysium successors: "Miss me with that casting call"
- Yes, South of Midnight will still run at 60fps despite its stop motion animation: "you're still in this crafted world without making it, you know, too nauseating"
- South of Midnight is "10 to 12 hours" long because its story unfolds within a single day: "There's a kind of urgency to it"
- The Gorge star Sigourney Weaver explains why her new sci-fi horror movie is the perfect date night watch: "I think it is such a kick-ass Valentine's Day movie"
- Daredevil: Born Again showrunner fought with Marvel over bringing back Karen and Foggy after the original version excluded them: "I was willing to lose a job over this one"
- A Nordic murder mystery is topping Netflix's streaming list, but you've probably never heard of it
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has several secret skill buffs that can be unlocked with pure dedication to role-play, so you'd better hold onto that blacksmith's apron
- Subnautica 2 devs warn players about "fraudulent links" to a playtest for its upcoming underwater survival game: "Stay safe out there, Subnauts!"
- "40+ minute" February PlayStation State of Play confirmed with "news and updates on great games coming to PS5"
- Monster Hunter Wilds feels more like a traditional RPG, but the director says that just sort of happened: "It was a natural outcome of our other decisions that hopefully makes sense"
- Critical Role announces release date for D&D alternative Daggerheart
- Sinister director says his new horror film The Gorge is partly inspired by Silent Hill and Until Dawn: "I love those games"
- Eisner-winning writer Andrew Wheeler’s new YA graphic novel Hey, Mary! is a sweet LGBTQ+ themed tale of self acceptance
- Upcoming The Sims competitor InZOI will feature ghostly Zoi that hang around after death to fix their karma
- D&D community wrestles over lack of Orc and Drow stat blocks in the 2025 Monster Manual: "They should have also removed the goblins, lizardfolk, gith, centaurs, bugbears, hobgoblins, kenku, and kobolds"
- Helldivers 2's Fallout-grade Ultimatum mini nuke has been nerfed, but maintains its "core identity as a powerhouse" because the devs are "huge fans of big booms booming big"
- Ke Huy Quan "cried" during filming Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, but Harrison Ford was there to pick him back up: "It just made me love him so much more"
- Dave Bautista is starring in a dystopian alien invasion thriller from the John Wick team
- DC fans are saying the latest look at David Corenswet's Superman flying is what the controversial trailer should have looked like
- Tom Cruise risked suffocation in the most "challenging" and "terrifying" Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning stunt
- Working on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was "one of the most amazing and unusual acting challenges" for its lead character
- Mere hours after enraging Marvel Rivals players with the announcement of a mid-season rank reset, NetEase Games quickly u-turns: "Players will retain their ranks and scores"
- Avengers: Doomsday gets a reported filming window, and it's very, very soon
- Fallout season 2 is even better than the "extraordinary" season 1 says Walton Goggins: "It’s really gonna be something"
- Andy Serkis knows the story of The Batman 2 and he's "hungry" for the movie
- When does The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep take place on The Witcher timeline?
- Assassin's Creed Shadows director on splitting time between the two heroes: "The core of the game can be pick your character and the game adapts"
- For the first time in 28 years, this ancient MMO is adding a new class
- February 10
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- Vision and Scarlet Witch are getting their first title together since 1985 to celebrate 50 years of marriage
- Fantasy Life developer says it struggled with "compatible platforms and new hardware," but now the long-awaited 3DS game sequel is "shaping up to be an outstanding RPG"
- In a true JRPG miracle, Square Enix says Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D sales are better "than initially assumed"
- First look at new Avatar 3 location is "the exact opposite" of the vibrant Pandora we saw in James Cameron's first two movies
- Marvel Rivals confirms The Thing and Human Torch release date, but many players are too frustrated with ranks resetting twice every season to care
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man star Colman Domingo wants to play Norman Osborn in a live-action MCU movie: "I would love to tear that up on the big screen"
- Take-Two boss seemingly teases eventual GTA 6 PC port: "We don't always go across all platforms simultaneously"
- Monster Hunter Wilds will give you one free character edit, which is great for Fashion Hunters, but frustrating for everyone who's sick of paywalled customization
- Brand-new Resident Evil 5 and 6 ESRB ratings have survival horror fans wondering what the heck Capcom is doing
- Civilization 7 launched with 3 new Ages, but data miners think we could be getting a fourth
- Take-Two boss is "not concerned" about falling console sales because major 2025 games like GTA 6 will help convince more people to buy a PS5 or Xbox Series X
- Asmodee to saddle over $920 million debt as parent company splits in 2025
- Euphoria star reveals he talked to Marvel about the Kang replacement rumors, but it didn't feel right: "I want a role to be mine"
- 24 years later, fans are still spotting the incredible, "unmatched" attention to detail in Lord of the Rings
- This crowdfunding project wants to treat Transformers fans to 12 inches of Breastforce
- The White Lotus season 3 star sayings this instalment is "bigger, bolder, and better" than the previous two, teasing an opening scene that will have your "jaw on the floor"
- Undertale's Toby Fox teases a Deltarune update he's already shared with family and friends: "They all described it as 'a cry for help because your game is not out'"
- After 3 years of playing Final Fantasy 14 "almost every single day," series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi reckons the MMO "might be the game that I've played the most in my life"
- The White Lotus star says that fans are "gonna lose their minds" at K-pop star Lisa's acting debut in the hit HBO show
- Elden Ring Nightreign's map will sometimes see "large-scale changes" to terrain including procedurally appearing volcanos, forests, and yes, swamps
- Think twice before causing too much trouble in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, because Henry can and will get executed, and there's a heartbreaking cutscene for it
- We've got a hot date with Art the Clown this Valentine's Day as Terrifier 3 heads to streaming
- Steam doubles down on a 5-year-old rule to make it more visible: "Developers should not utilize paid advertising as a business model in their game"
- MTG lead designer says "Trans people, people of color, and women playing a larger role, are all part of modern fantasy because they’re all part of the actual world"
- Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator returns after insider trading scandal to announce update to obscure pirate-themed coin pusher game: "I had to update a lot of things"
- The Dark Knight Rises star says she "screwed up" the death scene that still angers fans over a decade later
- Superman skipped a Super Bowl TV spot in favor of a Green Lantern joke, and DC fans are divided
- The Black Phone 2 director reveals the one "main difference" between the original horror movie and its upcoming "more graphic" sequel
- Zelda and Star Fox veteran says the Nintendo Switch has been a global success, but thinks the House of Mario still has "something" up its sleeve for the Switch 2
- The latest Thunderbolts trailer all but confirms a major Marvel fan theory that one character is a goner
- Disco Elysium lead says original Fallout is an RPG "that's almost Biblical in its annihilation," making "other post-apocalyptic worldbuilding seem like an amusement park"
- I don't want to alarm you, but an RTX 5090 power connector has melted
- Denzel Washington says he was smiling when he learned about his Gladiator 2 Oscar snub as he's been around too long to care
- Dragon Quest 12: The Flames of Fate isn't canceled despite the lack of updates confirms series creator Yuji Horii, who says the team is "working hard" on the JRPG
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 breaks into Steam's top 50 most-played with a peak concurrent player count more than twice what the original had
- Attack on Titan movie post-credits scene explained: what happens in The Last Attack's bonus scene?
- New Thunderbolts trailer sees the MCU's most beloved antiheroes step in for the Avengers and save the world
- February 9
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- Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning trailer sees Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt embark on his most dangerous mission yet
- "Valve does a very good job of surfacing games that players like": As his new RPG prepares for Steam early access, ex-WoW vet says making good games is the only real hack
- BioWare's Sonic The Hedgehog RPG "actually uses Dragon Age: Origins dialogue system heavily streamlined to fit on the Nintendo DS"
- My Steam wishlist is bigger than ever thanks to the indie devs flooding social media with 15-second clips explaining their games
- Marvel fans are loving this deep-cut musical Easter egg in the Fantastic Four trailer which is a hidden tribute to the comics
- Superman star Rachel Brosnahan reveals how James Gunn's DC movie is "so true to the comics"
- As PSN outages subside, Capcom is extending the next Monster Hunter Wilds open beta for an extra day as the "test period was cut short"
- Shogun season 2 scripts are now complete, as production on the hit show aims to being this fall
- J.K. Simmons confirms that work has already started on Invincible season 4: "We actually have dipped our toes"
- Marvel star Anthony Mackie thinks he only has 10 more years playing Captain America: "A 60-year-old Captain America, that'll hurt"
- February 8
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- The PlayStation Network has been down for 17 hours - and PSN players say even single-player games and disc drives aren't working
- Ex-World of Warcraft designer says the stagnating "meta" in today's RPGs "really sucks," and Marvel Rivals is a good example of how to solve it
- To celebrate Helldivers 2's first birthday, GM Joel recalls his favorite community moments that are now "canon" and "part of Helldiver lore"
- First The Night Agent season 3 teaser takes us behind the scenes on the hit Netflix show, confirming that it's in production
- One star is "heartbroken" that they can't return for Twisted Metal season 2 due to scheduling conflicts, teasing that the upcoming instalment is "going to be nuts"
- Nosferatu director Robert Eggers says that his upcoming werewolf horror movie is "the darkest thing" he's "ever written"
- Star of scrapped Coyote vs. Acme movie says it makes his "blood boil" that the film was canceled: "I would understand if the thing sucked, but it's really good"
- Elden Ring's seamless co-op modder takes their talents to Dark Souls 3, letting you "play with friends" from start to finish with "no resummoning or interruptions"
- Martin Scorsese reveals that he's a huge fan of Nosferatu and director Robert Eggers too: "Anything this guy does, amazing"
- 13-year WoW vet left Blizzard for the indie life because "I didn't really feel like a game developer in some way," agrees it's harder for AAA giants to "maintain this connection to the player"
- Diablo creator rips into modern ARPGs for being all about "killing screen-fulls of things instantly," says Diablo 2's pacing "is great" and "that’s one of the reasons it’s endured"
- February 7
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- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 dev says the original RPG attracted an audience "sort of like Euro Truck Simulator," with "quite a lot of people who never play games"
- Fatal Fury's top anime girlfriend Mai "bounces" into Street Fighter 6, and her bouncy arrival is driving Capcom to horny madness: "She's giving fierce. She's slaying"
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 dev says the RPG is a "welcoming" hardcore game, and he "can never understand" how people play Elden Ring: "I'm just not good at the combat"
- Cobra Kai stars talk fan theories and share the incredible prank one Karate Kid legacy actor pulled off on set: "I believed him pretty much the whole season"
- Hideo Kojima quietly reveals 10 seconds of new Death Stranding 2 footage as what looks like the next trailer goes to "main sound mixing"
- "I still have a job to do": Balatro creator says selling 5 million copies hasn't really changed his lifestyle, and he's focused on updates instead of new games
- Tony Stark teams up with Red Guardian and the Winter Guard to take on Doctor Doom in Iron Man #6
- Monster Hunter Wilds devs know players love the beta's buggy origami monsters: "It was a nice thing to see that people were enjoying it in a way that they were having fun"
- After nearly 20 years, beloved manga Kingdom is finally getting an official English release due to fan demand
- Helldivers 2's new Fallout-grade mini nuke Ultimatum is a 4,500-damage delete button that's already got the community debating whether it's OP
- The Cobra Kai cast was never worried about skepticism from diehard Karate Kid fans: “The franchise as a whole has been completely behind us”
- Avowed won't have enemy scaling, director confirms, but it will have jank: "You gotta accept a little jank to do something fun and creative"
- Sigourney Weaver hopes James Cameron watches upcoming sci-fi movie The Gorge because Anya Taylor-Joy’s heroine reminds her of a certain Avatar character
- As the Final Fantasy 14 devs "continue to take a firm stance" against mods that can enable harassment, Yoshi-P says improvements are starting in patch 7.2
- From farming sims to cat-collecting games, Steam's Idler Fest promises to fill your desktop with stuff that totally won't hurt your productivity
- PUBG Studios' Project Arc is now called PUBG: Blindspot, and the top-down 5v5 tactical shooter will be playable this month thanks to a Steam demo
- Ralph Macchio talks “paying the legacy forward” in the new Karate Kid movie: “It’s been the gift that keeps on giving”
- Final Fantasy 14 gets its biggest post-Dawntrail patch yet in 7.2 next month, adding a new Savage tier, trials, Phantom Jobs, Cosmic Exploration, and more
- Sigourney Weaver was "delighted" to join the Star Wars franchise but says Grogu was the whole reason she signed on for The Mandalorian & Grogu: "He's a little badass"
- Thanks to "overwhelming demand," Attack on Titan's movie release has been extended
- 3 years since reveal, open-world Wonder Woman game from Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor devs reportedly $100 million in the hole and struggling with tech and leadership
- After Suicide Squad's $200 million flop, Rocksteady's reportedly back to working on the Batman games that made it a household name
- Fallout's Walton Goggins isn't the only one who racked up a huge bill shooting The White Lotus season 3, but star Michelle Monaghan blames her kids: "How many Kit-Kats can you eat?"
- Monster Hunter Wilds' nightmarish low-poly bug is back for its second beta, but don't be too surprised - Capcom said improvements wouldn't show until launch
- I just discovered Lego Febrovery 2025 is a thing and these amazing Sci-Fi designs are making me want to get back into building again
- Severance star Adam Scott to lead new film from director of one of the highest-rated horror movies of 2024
- Avatar star Sam Worthington called his James Bond audition "awful" but fans disagree after it leaks online
- No one knows for sure if Final Reckoning is Tom Cruise's last ever Mission: Impossible movie, but the director teases the title is "appropriate"
- Square Enix points to Tifa and this $2,600 Nier Automata 2B statue for driving its "strong" merch sales - and I need to know how many of you bought it
- As if Fallout: London wasn't already big enough, its devs now say the mod's "first DLC is getting closer" with "more surprises" to come
- Anthony Mackie requested one major Captain America costume change before Brave New World because it was his "worst nightmare"
- Brandon Sanderson doubts MTG Aetherdrift's storytelling methods: "Something about it is not clicking with me"
- The studio behind Your Name is making a new Pokemon anime movie, and the synopsis is already breaking my heart
- Marvel’s Armor Wars gets a confusing update, suggesting it might not be happening any time soon: "It doesn't mean we’ll never make it"
- As mixed Steam reviews pile up, Civilization 7 devs say updates are on the way as they hold themselves "to a high standard and always strive to create the best game possible"
- The Vision TV show has added a new cast member, and Marvel fans are convinced it's the new Tommy
- Before he landed that Buffy cameo, Pedro Pascal lied that he was going to be in Twin Peaks (and that he was Christian Bale, too)
- The White Lotus star couldn't believe that HBO killed off fan-favorite Tanya in season 2: "There's no way, it's Jennifer f*cking Coolidge"
- Football Manager 2025 canceled as the developers didn't want to release an unfinished game and fix things "down the line"
- One moment in the Fantastic Four trailer may have accidentally spoiled a major Marvel rumor that won't go away: Sue Storm is pregnant
- A zombie Jennifer Coolidge in The White Lotus season 4? The cast reveal their hopes for the upcoming season of the hit HBO show
- Avowed director says about a third of the Pillars of Eternity developers are working on Obsidian's new action-RPG and teases crossover characters
- Magic: The Gathering live-action movie in the works alongside TV "universe" and "other content"
- February 6
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- The Nintendo Switch is getting a manga reader app, but only in Japan
- "Rockstar Games seeks perfection in everything they do": Take-Two boss is confident in GTA 6, but "our competitors are not asleep"
- New Switch 2 patent confirms it: Nintendo is straight-up calling that Joy-Con thing a "mouse"
- Tom Cruise says he had to "train himself to breathe" for intense Mission: Impossible 8 stunts: "There were times I would pass out physically"
- Helldivers 2 CEO praises players for their "brilliant" DSS strategy, but follows up with a grave threat: "J.O.E.L. is out to get you now"
- GTA 6 still coming this fall, Take-Two boss says "there's always a risk of slippage" but "we feel really good" about a 2025 launch
- Sarah Michelle Gellar breaks silence on Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot: "We will only make this show if we can do it right"
- Juggernaut meets his maker as the X-Men arrive to fight Cyttorak in Amazing Spider-Man #67
- After 1,428 deaths, Elden Ring player literally beats the whole game using a real boxing dummy as a controller, and not even Malenia was safe
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 sees Skyrim's iconic guards and raises them a guy with an arrow in his head: "To the knee? That's nothing. You could go dancing the next day with a scratch like that"
- Civilization 7 devs "looking into feedback" as hardcore 4X fans blast the game on Steam, with 44% positive early reviews ripping into bad UI
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (Feb 7 - 9)
- Former Epic and BioWare devs reveal their new co-op action RPG, a gorgeous sky-high dungeon adventure "in a fully breakable world"
- As The Sims 2 returns, The Sims 4 is finally getting its own Open for Business expansion pack with candy shops, multi-type lots, tattoo artists, and more
- Baldur's Gate 3's unreleased Patch 8 is getting its own patch today, because Mystra forbid Gale goes another day without eating magic shoes
- PlayStation DMCAs Nightmare Kart creator's Bloodborne PS1 Demake right after she announces new DLC for the gothic racer
- Days after EA CEO suggests players crave live service guff, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 boss says their single-player RPG made all its money back in one day
- As EA hints The Veilguard's low sales could be due to a lack of live service elements, former Dragon Age lead calls out "silly" demands to "fundamentally change the DNA of what people loved"
- As Death Stranding 2: On the Beach gets rated in South Korea and Hideo Kojima appears to tease a new trailer, a release date seems more likely than ever
- Invincible finally lets its One-Punch Man parody mirror his anime counterpart during the season 3 premiere
- So… does Bruce Wayne really have a secret brother? Batman #157 reveals the answer
- Trot the globe for next to nothing with this half price board game deal
- This action game's Zelda dungeons and Persona-style friendships stole my heart last year, and it's coming to PlayStation next month
- This isn't a gaming chair for everyone, but its discounted price sure is
- Metal Gear Solid 3 remake release date leaked by PlayStation, alongside a silly Ape Escape mode returning from the PS2 days
- New action-comedy Love Hurts might be from John Wick's producers but it's more like Dragons Forever than the Keanu Reeves franchise, says Ke Huy Quan
- After selling out of the Switch at launch, Nintendo knows rapidly increasing production to meet demand for the Switch 2 "will not be easy"
- Tom Cruise had two bizarre requests for Tropic Thunder, according to Ben Stiller
- Come all ye metalheads, behold this system-agnostic TRPG sourcebook for my fellow chaos goblins
- Marvel star signs up to wild new horror movie from Longlegs producers that's told from the perspective of a dog
- Avowed director confirms the game follows The Outer Worlds' lead to skip New Game Plus, but DLC is still a "maybe"
- Captain America: Brave New World director explains why "incredible" WWE Superstar's villain was cut from the Marvel film
- Homelander actor Antony Starr's James Bond screen test for Casino Royale has been leaked online, and The Boys fans are all making the same joke
- Legendary Dragon Age writer looks to Baldur's Gate 3 devs while giving EA advice after The Veilguard: "Follow Larian's lead and double down on that"
- The Resident Evil deathmatch game that flopped is going offline as Capcom says it's "served its original, celebratory purpose admirably"
- The Acolyte star says the Star Wars show's cancelation was "overwhelming," but she's still "proud" of playing a Jedi: "Bucket list ticked"
- Nintendo Switch 2 exclusives are still "very important" despite ongoing support for Switch 1, company president says
- 20 years later, Henry Cavill's James Bond audition that the director called "tremendous" has been leaked online
- Original Hellboy actor Ron Perlman "had an opportunity" to reprise the role, but refused to do it without Guillermo del Toro involved
- Harrison Ford says Troy Baker's "brilliant" Indiana Jones and the Great Circle performance is proof "you don’t need artificial intelligence to steal my soul"
- February 5
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- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's respec mechanic involves drinking so much that you can't remember anything, Disco Elysium style
- World of Warcraft calls out Final Fantasy 14's house lottery nightmare as Blizzard details Midnight's player housing: "No lotteries, and no onerous upkeep"
- Nintendo finally confirms exactly when we'll get more Switch 2 details with the April Direct, which promises a "closer look" at the console ahead of hands-on previews
- As live service flops pile up, ex-World of Warcraft dev says his new mini MMO doesn’t need to be the next Helldivers 2 or Marvel Rivals: “It will be more of a meager, smaller start"
- Dragon Age 2 director acknowledges "really fast rush" behind the RPG's development as the team tried to "jump on the grenade that was being placed in front of BioWare"
- Ultimates #9 introduces the new Ultimate Luke Cage and Danny Rand, who have been fighting the Maker in the background all along
- Harrison Ford defends Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny in the most Harrison Ford way: "S*** happens"
- AAA games may never die, but ex-WoW veteran predicts a rise in AA games like his new mini MMO: "Most AAA devs who have joined our team really do not want to go back"
- This new Netflix thriller looks like the perfect mash-up of Parasite meets Saltburn in its tense first trailer
- Monster Hunter Wilds looks slightly less terrifying for PC gamers: Capcom has reduced system requirements and released a 26GB benchmark tool ahead of the second beta
- The Sims design mastermind Will Wright says the first Sims ever made were "too good" at staying alive and needed to be stupider for the game to be fun
- Steam now warns you if an early access game hasn't been updated in a long time, but outside obvious abandonware, it's not clear what actually counts as an update
- The latest gaming chair from Boulies comes with an extendable recliner, and its price may surprise you compared to Secretlab's
- My favorite ever Lego set just got a rare discount
- Loki star Ke Huy Quan passed on new action-comedy Love Hurts twice because he "didn't know why they were reaching out" to him
- "I have a guardian angel Steam dev": One brave PC gamer is trading Steam cards for pennies to earn enough cash for a Steam Deck, and $200 in with 20,000 cards left, it's going shockingly well
- Ted Lasso star says she isn't interested in doing in a spin-off, but teases a fourth season instead: "It sounds like there might be a season 4"
- Fujifilm's next projector could solve a whole host of problems in one go - and it's, frankly, adorable
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 sells 1 million copies in its first 24 hours, and Metacritic clocks it as the highest-rated game of 2025 so far
- EA teaser may be pointing to a new Sims 4 expansion with a tattoo artist career, right after a massive update with over 70 new items
- GTA 5 Trevor actor denies that he "hates" the series and his "awesome" character, but says "no," he won't be playing GTA 6
- Marvel has seemingly hidden a secret Morse code message in the Fantastic Four trailer launch – and it's already been deciphered
- Nintendo Switch 2 price will match the "affordability that our customers expect," company president promises – and I'm personally expecting $400 or so
- Now's the time to launch that queer TRPG idea for Zine Month, to help remedy what's been a dark journey for tabletop media
- Back to the Future screenwriter has a very blunt response for those asking for a fourth movie: "F*** you"
- Months after ruling out an Apex Legends 2, EA CEO says "an even bigger, more meaningful" Apex 2.0 is on the table after Battlefield 6
- Alien: Romulus and Evil Dead helmer says he wants to take on "a good old slasher" movie next
- Ex-D&D Designer says the OGL controversy has possibly rendered the game permanently “uncool”
- Epic Jurassic World Rebirth trailer sees Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey battle dinosaurs that were deemed "too dangerous for the original park"
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs insist its limited save feature "will forever stay," but that's not stopped players from modding it out hours after launch
- Marvel fans think a new Fantastic Four: First Steps poster is hiding a deep cut comic cameo
- There's actually a werewolf reference in a Nosferatu deleted scene, and it's sparked theories about a Robert Eggers connected universe
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 pays tribute to Elden Ring icon Let Me Solo Her - and the legend himself thinks the Easter egg is "awesome"
- A blink-and-you'll-miss-it background detail in the Fantastic Four trailer might be hinting at how the team joins the present-day MCU
- Ahead of season 3, Invincible creator Robert Kirkman says superhero fatigue isn't a "real thing" but admits the novelty can wear off unless you "push things in interesting directions"
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard was loved by "those who played," EA insists, but "it did not resonate with a broad enough audience"
- AMD finally confirms it'll release its Radeon RX 9070 GPU this March, and I suspect it'll be a mid-range menace
- The White Lotus star says she is "baffled" after her Hulu comedy series gets canceled after one season because "the show is an undeniable critical, creative and award-winning success"
- Word Fluxx to join the Fluxx franchise almost 30 years after the original game's release
- The Gundam live-action movie from Dune's production company begins production – and a first look poster of the anime adaptation is already out
- With GTA 6, Borderlands 4, and Doom coming this year, EA isn't opposed to delaying Battlefield 6 to "deliver on the full promise of what Battlefield can be"
- Jurassic World Rebirth actor teases a "link" with Sam Neill's Jurassic Park character – and fans think they've worked it out
- Marvel may have edited out Reed Richards' stretching powers from the Fantastic Four trailer – and the evidence is right in front of our eyes
- Monster Hunter Wilds saved some big surprises for the second beta: "online single player," Gore Magala, a new monster, and photo mode
- EA boss says the company's games "might find real energy" on Switch 2 because "any time a great console" launches it opens up "access to new players and new communities"
- February 4
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- EA says Battlefield 6 will launch before April 2026
- Destiny 2's new Episode suggested the upcoming Apollo expansion will launch on July 15, but that date has mysteriously been scrubbed from the game
- Metal Gear Solid acting legends David Hayter and Jennifer Hale team up in a new indie game that's "a badass, side-scrolling, stealth-action, steampunk bloodbath"
- Marvel denies using AI for new Fantastic Four posters that have extra fingers and duplicate faces
- New "hardcore RPG" turns dudes from One Piece, Demon Slayer, My Hero Academia, and more into hot unlicensed anime waifus and it is absolutely not subtle
- Bungie yanked Destiny 2 servers offline for emergency maintenance as Episode 3: Heresy got off to a rocky start, but it looks like we're back in business
- Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is the fastest-selling Dragon Ball console game in the series' 38-year history, with 5 million copies sold in 4 months
- Daredevil actor Charlie Cox reveals that he had "never actually read a comic book" when he was cast as Matt Murdock
- If you need easy Valentine's Day gifts, these Lego flowers haven't ever been cheaper
- 40 years after they first acted together, Love Hurts' Ke Huy Quan recalls his "emotional" reunion with Sean Astin: "It's our little treat to the Goonies fans"
- Pedro Pascal talks about unusual fashion inspiration for Fantastic Four suit as he describes the experience as "humbling"
- Nintendo is "making preparations" to beat scalpers at the Switch 2 launch
- My favorite Nerf blasters just got a massive discount
- Nintendo boss says it's not Switch 2's fault that Switch sales are "below expectations," and the company will keep selling the old console "as long as there is demand"
- Hogwarts Legacy meets The Sims in The Fool's Apprentice, an enchanting management game in which you run a wizard school
- Proposed US tariffs make your next gaming handheld up to 35% more expensive
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Steam launch was "fantastic" analyst says after PC players sent the JRPG port flying to the US best-selling spot in the week of its release
- Captain America: Brave New World star Anthony Mackie teases he's most excited for "the two worlds coming together and creating a super MCU" in the new Avengers movies
- Loki's Ke Huy Quan says he has his "fingers crossed" for O.B. to return to the MCU (and team up with Spider-Man): "I had such a fun time playing him"
- Anthony Mackie and Danny Ramirez talk the bond between Captain America and Falcon in Brave New World – and how it mirrors real life
- If you liked Red Dead Redemption 2's ultra-realistic horses, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs also used a real horse in the motion capture studio
- Helldivers 2 is getting a portable hellbomb that looks just as chaotic and deadly as Fallout's mini nukes
- Five years after taking the shield, Anthony Mackie says he's "excited as hell" to finally be starring in a Captain America movie: "I've been biding my time waiting for this moment"
- God of War and LittleBigPlanet series composer wins a Grammy for the remake of a 44-year-old RPG that shaped Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and more
- DC and Late Night with the Devil star reveals that his "greatest career dreams" are two of Hollywood's most coveted roles: the Joker and a Bond villain
- Designer says Warhammer's returning Merwyrm took "a lot of adjusting and a fair bit of unladylike language" to sculpt
- Netflix announces One Piece season 2 has wrapped and shares a first look that might be teasing an important location
- Elgato's Wave microphones are getting some big quality-of-life changes thanks to a new software update
- Marvel fans are divided over our first look at The Thing in the Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer
- Upcoming horror movie The Monkey reveals creepy popcorn bucket – and all I can say is I'm definitely not bringing that into my house
- The Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer introduces Marvel's first family, big bad Galactus, and John Malkovich's deep-cut comics character to the MCU
- Helldivers 2's funniest feature was removed last year, but it's finally been reinstated – although it won't save you from certain doom anymore
- Take down the motherfluffling system with this Cy_Bear Punk TRPG
- Neon Genesis Evangelion creator's first-ever live-action film is heading to cinemas over 25 years after original release
- New Rey movie screenwriter reveals what his vision might have in common with Star Wars creator George Lucas
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is definitely still releasing this year, Nintendo reconfirms, just in case the 8-year wait gave you trust issues
- After years of development hell, a Just Cause movie is finally moving forward – with Nobody 2, John Wick, and DC talent all involved
- Invincible season 3 continues the superhero show's streak by debuting with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- As The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 on PC continue to be met with mixed reviews citing everything from crashes to performance issues, EA says info on fixes is coming "soon"
- Elden Ring streamer puts us all to shame and beats every boss - including the DLC fights - in a single hit in 54 hours, which is less than your average playthrough
- Hugh Jackman canceled a concert due to an "unforeseen conflict" and everyone has jumped to the same conclusion: Wolverine will return in the next Avengers movie
- Nintendo Switch clears 150 million sales, closing gap with PS2 once again after Sony bumped up its own figures last year
- The PlayStation got its iconic name after legendary lead Ken Kutaragi saw how PCs were called "workstations," reveals Sony veteran Shuhei Yoshida
- Denis Villeneuve is making Dune 3 next instead of another planned project because he felt the "appetite" from fans and "a responsibility to finish the story"
- The Atari 7800+ is down to a new record low price for those of you who didn't grow up with an NES
- Marvel producer shuts down Black Panther 3's T'Challa recast rumors: "Everything you read online is not true"
- Captain America: Brave New World star Anthony Mackie says the portals scene in Avengers: Endgame is one of the best moments in Marvel cinematic history
- Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto once asked ex-PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida his thoughts on Star Fox Zero on Wii U, and well, we've all been there: "Should I say my honest reaction?"
- One of the hottest demos on Steam right now is an Escape from Tarkov parody survival shooter with ducks: "Loot, escape, build, and eventually become a mighty bird soldier"
- February 3
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- Sony veteran Shuhei Yoshida reveals PlayStation's first video game: an FMV space shooter for Nintendo that was "almost finished"
- More than 20 years later, Sarah Michelle Gellar returns to play Buffy the Vampire slayer in a revival series from Marvel director
- Ex-PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida says Switch 2 "could have been a larger reveal" and "the only surprise to me was that mice thing that they showed"
- The Final Destination: Bloodlines trailer is here and it promises a disgusting return for the fan-favorite horror series
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 trades Skyrim stealth archers for stinky smelly archers: you can get so filthy that NPCs catch you "broadcasting" body odor, so "wash your hands, kids"
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 dev on launching an RPG in a brutal month for games: "I think if this happened with the first game, morale would be crushed"
- After backlash over Pokemon TCG Pocket's titular feature – you know, trading – devs say they're working on improvements and "multiple ways to obtain trade tokens"
- Neil Druckmann says The Last of Us season 2 will incorporate "pretty brutal" deleted material from The Last of Us 2: "I'm very excited for people to see it"
- After 44 years, Donkey Kong player discovers that the legendary kill screen isn't really the end
- Legendary skating games OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome just got yanked from storefronts after less than 3 years, and no one knows why
- The Last of Us season 2 creator says Abby looks different from the games because there's "not as much violent action" and that it's "more about the drama"
- "Campaign is back": Battlefield 6 suddenly emerges with 10 seconds of gameplay footage, 4 separate development studios, and a closed pre-alpha test
- MTG Aetherdrift's biggest departure from fantasy isn't its hot rods or its controversial set symbol, it's in the introduction of this one creature type
- Dandadan creator Yukinobu Tatsu compares his favorite character in the hit manga to an iconic DC superhero
- The Need For Speed series is pumping the brakes as "Criterion are joining their colleagues working on Battlefield" instead of tuning more cars
- The 7 Marvel movies and shows to watch before Captain America: Brave New World
- "Let me cope": Bloodborne 60fps mod creator hopes the remake is real this time as Sony seemingly sends a DMCA after yet another fan project
- First look at Wednesday and Peaky Blinders stars’ new psychological thriller teases a musician on the verge of a mental breakdown
- Blue Beetle's future in James Gunn's DCU gets promising update from star Xolo Maridueña – including a new show out in 2026
- 17 years after his first appearance, Captain America: Brave New World star says the Marvel movie's take on The Leader is "not the version I expected to play"
- Path of Exile is running a one-month event with "whacky ideas that never quite made it off the brainstorm board" to keep you happy until the delayed expansion
- The Sims is back after 25 years, and it's teaching Sims 4 players a lesson in retro life sim difficulty: "Damn this game is hard"
- Cobra Kai's emotional first trailer for the final five episodes of the Netflix show is a poignant look back at 40 years of Karate Kid history
- First Fantastic Four: First Steps footage teases a major trailer launch and gives us a glimpse of Marvel's First Family
- World of Warcraft got a $90 dupe of a mount worth $475 around 6 years ago for the MMO's 20th anniversary, and fans reckon Blizzard made at least $15 million off it
- Nintendo relying on owning popular series would be "a big mistake" says Zelda, Star Fox veteran: "It's crucial not to forget the talented individuals who uphold the value of those IPs"
- This trio of Blockbuster party board games is just $1 away from its lowest ever price … and there’s no late fees included either
- Pokemon store is now selling life-size Gardevoir plushies which don't look creepy at all
- The Boys fans have some big theories about where Eric Kripke will take Soldier Boy in season 5
- Good news Severance fans, your outie can now download the show’s mysterious self-help book for free
- Marvel boss Kevin Feige hopes Captain America: Brave New World leads to "full acceptance" of Anthony Mackie's new hero
- Xbox bringing its exclusives to PS5 has a precedent set by Sega, but "it makes the conversation harder to create the FOMO," says former PlayStation boss
- Harrison Ford hopes Red Hulk can return after Captain America: Brave New World – and pays tribute to William Hurt
- One of the best thriller anime shows Oshi no Ko gets a season 3 release window, taking the story closer to its finale
- Fully funded in 12 minutes, this card game combines 3D printable miniatures with deep strategic deckbuilding
- Mass Effect 5 is "still in pre-production" says director as BioWare shifts full focus to the sci-fi RPG amid dev reshuffles and reported layoffs
- Anthony Mackie says Captain America: Brave New World is a building block to the next Avengers: Endgame-style "massive moment" in the MCU
- 14 years after the last movie, Final Destination: Bloodlines drops a first teaser that has horror fans speculating about what it could mean
- I know everyone's hyped for the RTX 5090, but this 16GB AMD GPU could come in clutch for cheap PC gaming thrills
- After 11 years of no support from EA, The Sims 2 mods are harder to find than ever, but one fan has a "masterlist" of over 200 with everything from Bigfoot Romance to CAS overhauls
- Nicolas Cage speaks out against AI in acting: "There will be no human response to life as we know it"
- M3GAN 2.0 is here to slay in a perfectly on-brand first sequel teaser for the upcoming horror movie
- New Captain America: Brave New World teaser answers MCU fans' biggest post-Endgame question – and it contains a major X-Men connection
- February 2
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- Star Fox designer says the game's iconic mascot is based on the "essence" of Shigeru Miyamoto: "I think if you look closely you can see the similarities"
- If The Sims re-release isn't to your liking, this lovely life sim that lives on the bottom of your screen might fill the void
- Benedict Cumberbatch's new horror movie is splitting critics with some saying that it "wastes" the Marvel and Sherlock star
- Two friends spent years making this open-world road trip RPG that's gotten over 170k Steam wishlists and 70k demo downloads, and it's finally out this week
- In addition to "billions" of weapons, Borderlands 4 has "the deepest and most diverse skill trees" of any game in the series
- Hideo Kojima has just given his seal of approval to one of 2024's best but most underseen horror movies
- Borderlands 4's tone sits somewhere between the first two games, which probably means less Skibidi Toilet and more Handsome Jack-style antics
- The Sleeping Dogs movie is reportedly now in development, with Marvel star Simu Liu set to take on "dream" lead role
- Guy Pearce reveals that he thinks he's "sh*t" in Christopher Nolan's Memento, as he reflects on its 25th anniversary: "I hate what I did"
- Civilization 7 director tweaked diplomacy because the entire design team "ganged up" on him in multiplayer
- Former GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 animator says GTA 6 is likely playable "all the way through" right now
- Elden Ring Nightreign went roguelike as the focus was "condensing" the RPG experience down, not because FromSoftware was "chasing a trend"
- Harrison Ford hopes that he doesn't "disappoint" fellow Marvel star Mark Ruffalo with his performance as Red Hulk in Captain America: Brave New World
- February 1
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- This cozy farming sim is just a sleepy frog that idly grinds on your desktop all day - and it's the best $4 I've spent in ages
- Rockstar Games co-founder and GTA 5, Red Dead Redemption 2 writer Dan Houser's new studio shows off its "story-driven action-comedy"
- Nosferatu director Robert Eggers is doing something "that’s not been done before" with his new upcoming horror movie
- Doctor Who writer shuts down theory that fan-favorite character could return: "All great things in Doctor Who are the result of a budget cut"
- Crunchyroll is making 20 anime TV shows free to watch next month including fan-favorite titles
- Gearbox didn't set out to create an open-world game with Borderlands 4, but the FPS does have "open-world-like features, such as seamless travel between zones"
- Legendary Zelda dev "wasn't too pleased" about working on A Link to the Past as it robbed his enjoyment of playing the finished game: "I still really don't want to play that game"
- Christopher Nolan's upcoming movie The Odyssey sees its already stacked cast grow, as Inception and Tenet stars reunite with the director
- Making an open-world game like GTA 6 bug-free is "a lot different" than something like The Witcher 3, says former Rockstar dev
- House of the Dragon season 3 casts its Ormund Hightower after the character was teased in season 2
- 6 years later, Far Cry New Dawn is getting a 60 FPS update on Xbox Series X and PS5, and the way it was revealed is sending me: "Well… this wasn’t how we planned to announce this"
