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- September 30
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- Hours after releasing their horror zookeeping sim, indie dev reveals a "secret": There are "23 storylines that lead to different endings"
- Solo indie dev behind hit city builder says devs should have more room for failure because "your first game always fails" and "their 10th game might be the next AAA studio"
- The infamous High Ground scene in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith was Steven Spielberg's idea
- How Batman The Last Halloween survived Tim Sale's death to become his parting gift - "Instead of doing something without Tim, let's do something for Tim"
- "Everybody settle down": After a PS5 update dropped ads all over the home screen, dev says it's "it's just a (new) bug with an existing feature"
- YouTuber figures out how to run Valve’s Deadlock on PS4, and it’s completely worthless: “I’m scared to even move the mouse”
- Deadpool and Wolverine gag reel is finally here and it has way more shots of Chris Evans getting hit in the crotch than we were expecting
- Helldivers 2 devs promise to let players literally fight with democracy through a "cutting-edge voting system" tied to their in-progress "gigastructure" space station
- Like a Dragon: Yakuza trailer is a bloody, high-octane, and effortlessly cool adaptation of the beloved games – the picture-perfect Kamurocho is just a bonus
- “At least your load times are great”: Dragon Age The Veilguard director showed the game to EA’s CEO only to immediately “get walloped right off the edge and down into a pit and die”
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard director reckons he could write the base for 5 more games "in a couple of weeks because I'm always thinking about Dragon Age"
- The director of Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 celebrates the final chapter of the manga's publication with a cool cast drawing
- Minecraft's updates may be getting smaller, but the first game drop of the new era seems plenty big with a cool-as-hell mob paying tribute to Doctor Who's best monster
- Space Marine 2's game director "can't wait" for a Warhammer dating sim, as he says to expect bolder 40K video games in the future
- Starfield and Bethesda lead says "Morrowind and its themes and overall vibe were a big inspiration" for the Shattered Space DLC's main planet and city
- After 11 years, Xbox One emulators are finally coming to PC - but they're not actually using emulation at all
- Helldivers 2 player pleads for help after a bot tank eats a 500kg bomb like it's nothing – accidentally summoning the creative director, who says: "Agree, that should be bye-bye"
- Hideo Kojima says the choice to create "something new that wasn't Death Stranding" with OD is "a bit risky" as "it's a game like no other"
- "Players can explore like they used to in Fallout and Skyrim": How Shattered Space brings the "bespoke goodness" of past Bethesda RPGs to Starfield
- The Penguin just name-dropped an iconic storyline from the Batman comics
- A second season of one of 2024's hottest fantasy anime hits has been announced
- After 84 hours in Cyberpunk 2077, God of War is exactly the palate cleanser I needed
- Fresh off his Oscar win, Cillian Murphy returns as Tommy Shelby in first look at new Peaky Blinders Netflix movie
- The Rings of Power used a Lord of the Rings movie veteran to help its actors learn fictional Tolkien languages
- Horror movie Nosferatu gets a new trailer that gives us our best look yet at Bill Skarsgård's terrifying vampire
- Risk of Rain 2 co-creator says "don't do that" as one fan gets the roguelike sequel running on Nintendo 3DS
- Shawshank Redemption director reveals the wholesome reason why he came out of retirement to work on Stranger Things season 5
- The 10 best Warhammer games to play right now
- Sea of Stars unveils local co-op and more in Dawn of Equinox, a massive free update for the smash-hit ode to classic JRPGs
- Activision Blizzard reportedly clashed with the Overwatch team on how to cope with the hero shooter's swelling demands like OW2, pushed for "hundreds" of hires to be more Call of Duty-like
- Re:Zero season 3 release schedule – when is episode 9 on Crunchyroll?
- Netflix adaptations of Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft were reportedly in development before Activision Blizzard filed a lawsuit against the streaming giant
- With The Batman, The Penguin, and Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy all drawing ideas from it, The Long Halloween has become the most influential Batman comic ever
- The Rings of Power season 2 finale trailer confirms the fate of Arondir and sees Sauron reclaim his crown
- I haven't look back since buying a dedicated gaming desk, and this Best Buy flash sale can get you there for much less
- Horizon: Zero Dawn developer's next game may be Horizon Online as a third single-player game looks "a ways off"
- An anime with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score has announced its season 2 return with a new teaser video
- Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.1 sheds needed light on a main Dawntrail character, turns a 24-man raid into a Savage, and introduces a beloved character from the FF series' first MMO
- Gamescom director says notable publishers like Sony and Nintendo skipping a show "isn't a negative sign"
- Elrond actor gives his take on the Galadriel kiss, as Rings of Power co-star has the perfect Star Wars comparison: "It's very Leia and Luke, if we're being honest"
- Chucky creator has the most on-brand response to his horror TV show being canceled, and it sounds like we haven't seen the last of the killer doll
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach already has a 2025 release date "decided," but Hideo Kojima can't say when "due to unforeseen circumstances"
- Nintendo could be looking to take the Palworld lawsuit overseas, but 1 attorney suggests it may be harder to win in the US than in Japan
- New Deadpool and Wolverine deleted scene reveals more from a Loki fan favorite character
- Desperate to get another RTS off the ground, Blizzard developers reportedly pitched Warcraft 4 and a Call of Duty RTS that got shot down
- Black Friday gaming deals in Australia for 2024: early deals are coming thick and fast
- The Penguin episode 2 recap and Easter eggs: Sofia Falcone smells a rat
- September 29
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- A Quiet Place video game narrative designer explains how it bridges the gap between Day One and the original movie
- After 6 years of solo development, anime-inspired Metroidvania riffing on Cuphead relaunches on Kickstarter with a $1 goal and raises over $9000
- Teacup, a new horror series produced by The Conjuring creator, adapts "the spirit" of the novel it's based on and "not much else"
- Starfield DLC release time - The countdown to Shattered Space is on, here's when it unlocks in your region
- Fan-favorite Amazon thriller series will lean less into the supernatural for season 2, is "a story of hope and love"
- I'm not saying Monster Hunter Wilds will be GOTY, but your custom character hits the legendary anime Akira slide on a giant bird and I don't see any other games doing that
- After 320 hours in my favorite roguelike, The Binding of Isaac just got a game-changing Path of Exile-style mod that could be the perfect excuse to go back
- 23 years later and Halo: CE speedrunning is about to change forever with newly-discovered glitches that add playable Flood and a flyable Pelican
- You can't keep Moo Deng for yourself, so Final Fantasy 14 players are swarming the MMO's Hippo Calf minion instead – and even Square Enix has caught the fever
- Not to be outdone by the PS5 Pro's price tag, Hideo Kojima stuns in $1700 Death Stranding 2 jackets that are already sold out
- Hideo Kojima debuts new Death Stranding 2 footage of the most detailed photo mode ever, more famous faces, and an Alan Wake 2-style musical number
- Showrunner of Netflix's Lara Croft anime series got the gig after "relentlessly" tweeting her progress playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- Showrunner of James Wan-produced horror series Teacup explains why it was so important to make each episode only 30 minutes – and weighs in on the likelihood of a season 2
- September 28
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- Smile director teases his "completely bonkers" and faithful remake of cult horror classic Possession with Robert Pattinson
- I've tried Razer's new haptic seat cushion, and my butt will never be the same
- Persona studio "working to address" problems plaguing Metaphor: ReFantazio's PC performance in the weeks before launch
- Hellboy: The Crooked Man's most disgusting scene was done entirely practically using "a lot of silicone and lube"
- Dino Crisis is finally getting the resurrection it deserves – and it's still a blast
- Space Marine 2 developers wanted it to feel like a Xbox 360 throwback shooter, but "didn't know it was that obvious"
- Starship Troopers: Extermination takes the fight to the bugs with 16-player strategic FPS battles
- Dying Light: The Beast dev says the smaller spinoff is a dream game that "remotivated us to work" on the Dying Light series
- Going the Resident Evil route, Capcom says that a Dead Rising 2 remake or remaster is "definitely possible"
- Astro Bot head says "it's difficult to comment on" why Final Fantasy 7's Cloud didn't make a cameo
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom speedrunner wasted absolutely no time breaking Echoes of Wisdom into little pieces
- Terrifier creator weighs in on the future of the gory horror franchise: "My big fear is of going on too long and wearing out my welcome"
- Win Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes on Blu-ray
- Win a Blu-ray of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
- Baldur's Gate 3 developer has a peculiar pick for the RPG's "canon experience," a character/class combo that I certainly would have never considered
- Smile 2 director says the sequel uses ideas that didn’t make it into the first film – and he already has a plan for a third movie too
- Art the Clown is a "love letter" to all the horror villains Terrifier 3 director idolized as a three year old
- "The father of PlayStation" says everyone at Sony thought the PS1 would fail when it was first pitched
- September 27
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- As California forces stores to admit you don't own digital games, GOG reminds PC gamers you can keep DRM-free games: "Your gaming legacy is always in your hands"
- The best FC 25 kits and how much they cost
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer gets his hands on the PS5 Pro: "The X button's in the wrong place"
- Nosferatu movie trailer teaser is as chilling as it is cryptic, and it sounds like a full trailer is coming in a few days
- Hate sci-fi movies? 32 movies to change your mind
- Hideo Kojima says "I can't die until then" as he signs with Hollywood agency and reveals "third phase" of his indie studio "is movies and anime"
- Tributes pour in for Downton Abbey and Harry Potter actor Maggie Smith, who has died at 89
- FC 25 RTTK tracker and Champions League upgrades guide
- "I have only ever thought of Death Stranding as a game": Hideo Kojima has written a movie, but "I don't have the time to direct it, so I won't"
- Todd Howard reflects on Starfield development: "How do we generate these planets? Is that even a good idea? OK, maybe at the time, no, but we made it work"
- The Risk of Rain devs joined Valve less than a month ago, and one of the legendary roguelike's creators is already working on Deadlock
- Genshin Impact 5.1 adds Xilonen, one of the strongest characters this RPG has seen in 4 years, and a new source of free Primogems to help you get her
- Saoirse Ronan's new movie The Outrun is a painful, hopeful story of addiction and recovery rooted in a powerful true story
- HBO's The Last of Us season 2 trailer has a twisted hidden Easter Egg referencing the game's most brutal scene
- The full FC 25 stadiums list including 10 new stadiums
- Life in Reterra review: "I can see it becoming a modern classic"
- The 7 best new movies and shows to stream this weekend
- "It's a big wild swing of a book," says writer Kelly Thompson as Absolute Wonder Woman gives the amazing Amazon a new home, a new outfit, and new lassos
- Terraria's sixth final update keeps getting delayed because the devs keep adding more stuff to it: "1.4.5 has turned into quite an update"
- Helldivers 2 publisher PlayStation wants to know how much you like the new buffs, with its latest survey gauging what Stratagems and guns you're using the least
- The 10 best fantasy movies on Netflix to watch right now
- Uzumaki release schedule – when is episode 4 of the horror anime on Adult Swim and Channel 4?
- Lenovo is apparently making two new Legion Go handhelds, but I'm not excited yet
- Saphie: The One-Eye Cat and more of WEBTOON's biggest comics will get print collections next year
- Balatro creator in disbelief as the roguelike hit tops mobile sales charts, beating Minecraft and Stardew Valley despite one pesky issue
- Space Marine 2's creative director sees what you’re doing in Games Workshops, and he approves
- FC 25 celebrations list with all the old and new celebrations
- This Metroidvania where you play as a janitor cat in the afterlife is the purrfect adventure for genre newbies like me
- Alien, Napoleon, and Gladiator director Ridley Scott is working on multiple original graphic novels
- Morbius star has a damning response when asked why he did the film: "I've got a mortgage to pay!"
- The complete FC 25 chemistry styles list explained
- As PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS looks back on its record-breaking 7 years, its developers are also looking to the future
- Dark and Darker Mobile brings the high stakes extraction genre to your phone
- Leaks suggest the RTX 5090 will pack 32GB VRAM, but it’s the RTX 5080 I’m worried about
- It took Assassin's Creed Shadows getting delayed for me to play Ghost of Tsushima, and it's already surprising me like Red Dead Redemption 2 did
- After admitting he was a Master Chief fanboy years ago, Atelier Yumia producer says the crafting JRPG's "biggest reference" is Halo
- This year's best city-builder is bigger than ever and cheaper than ever, as Manor Lords celebrates 2.5 million sales with an update and a hefty discount
- 2 and a half years later, Pokemon Legends: Arceus streamer finally finds a shiny version of the pocket pal she's been searching for: "I'm gonna throw up"
- After 3 years of very few Marvel's Wolverine updates, Insomniac pledges to push the PS5 Pro to the limit to make it worth the wait
- Alan Tudyk has a "secret role" in Superman, and we're wondering if it's his fan-favorite DC character
- The Rings of Power season 2, episode 7's big death was almost more gruesome but was cut for going too far: "They deemed it a bit too gory"
- The first Deadpool and Wolverine deleted scene is here, and it dismantles the MCU in just 40 seconds
- FC 25 skill moves guide with every trick, flick and spin
- Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P knows you want an FF9 Remake but doubts a new spin on the JRPG could fit into a "single title"
- Agatha All Along's first big casualty suggests it's not the end for their character in the MCU: "You need to watch more"
- Deadlock does what Valve didn't get around to with Counter-Strike, turning the hero shooter's cheaters into frogs
- Hellboy: The Crooked Man ending explained: Does Hellboy save Tom’s soul, what happens to Effie the witch, and all your questions answered
- Hellboy: The Crooked Man post-credits scenes – does the comic book movie have a post-credit scene?
- "StarCraft is not dead at Blizzard" - Blizzard reportedly "incubating" another StarCraft shooter after its last attempts failed
- One DC actor isn't saying anything about his Superman role because Marvel "almost fired him 36 times" for revealing spoilers: "I am so bad at this"
- A Pillars of Eternity Tactics game has been pitched by "a number" of Obsidian devs, because fans "will play a lot of them, even if they're not that good"
- Retro Gamer celebrates Namco’s Ridge Racer series
- 9 months after their not-MMO died and tanked their studio, The Day Before devs are "asking for a second chance" with a new crowdfunded game that's "free from embellishments"
- September 26
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- New Metal Gear Solid Delta footage looks gorgeous and faithful, but the 2004 voice acting just doesn't look right coming out of 2024 character models
- A 12-year arc of The Simpsons comes to a close as EA shuts down city builder The Simpsons: Tapped Out after 308 updates, 831 characters, and 1,463 questlines
- Alien: Romulus gets a digital release date – and it's coming with a guide to all the Easter eggs you probably missed
- I think I've worked out The Last of Us season 2 timeline from the latest trailer
- After admitting Chaos isn't that fun to fight, Space Marine 2 devs make Chaos easier to fight – and tone down Veteran difficulty for a "better single player experience"
- Former Tekken and Splatoon 3 devs are behind Hirogami, an action-platformer that's already won me over with its Kirby-like abilities
- Psylocke and Quentin Quire will have to work together to save a young mutant in X-Men #5
- Nobody seems to know why it took 25 years to get the Lunar Remastered Collection, but it might go back to the beloved JRPG's controversial localization
- Capcom drops the best Monster Hunter Wilds video yet, plus an extended trailer confirming the return of a 20-year-old monster we haven't seen in 7 years
- From EVE Galaxy Conquest news to Warframe Mobile updates, here's everything shown in the Mobile Gaming Show
- Cassette Beasts is coming to mobile soon, so you can collect and mash up monsters on the go
- Fans rejoice as brutal hack'n slash platformer Blasphemous is finally coming to iOS and Android
- Gordian Quest debuts new gameplay trailer for its mobile port, and it's like a greatest hits of indie gaming
- Dungeon Clawler's new trailer suggests that you might finally win one of those darn fairground claw games for once
- With Monument Valley 3 just months away, Ustwo Games reminiscences on developing for and beyond mobile and nonviolent games
- Hello Kitty Island Adventure's 2.0 update takes the Sanrio spin on Animal Crossing-like to the city, and you can play it right now
- Warframe Mobile is the best way to make sure you don't miss a beat of this winter's Warframe: 1999 update
- After earning rave comparisons to Heroes of Might and Magic on Steam, 4X tactical gem Songs of Conquest is coming to mobile in 2025
- How Age of Empires Mobile is scaling the series' classic historical action for smaller screens: "We built this RTS around the ethos of control"
- EVE Galaxy Conquest spins the MMO sensation off onto Android and iOS next month
- Ana de Armas goes to war and asks Keanu Reeves for advice in first trailer for John Wick spin-off Ballerina
- We finally got a proper trailer for this beautiful Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy-inspired JRPG, and it's already one of the prettiest 2D games I've ever seen
- Celebrimbor actor Charles Edwards breaks down The Rings of Power season 2's most shocking moment to date: "Obviously, he didn't mean to do it"
- The Last of Us season 2 confirms my favorite scene from the games is included, and I'm ready to be broken all over again
- Meet Blue Bolt, the "biggest jerk in the Marvel Universe" and the newest member of the Avengers
- FC 25 Season 1 Ladder Players list and how to unlock them all
- With Assassin's Creed Shadows pushed back to an already-full February, expect a bloodbath that might decide the future of RPGs
- The Last of Us season 2 trailer introduces Abby and instantly reminds us how bleak Part 2 actually was
- Disney Plus joins Netflix in making you pay to share your subscription outside your household
- How many episodes are in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 2 and is it coming to Netflix?
- Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender cast reunite for wholesome behind the scenes photo as work on season 2 begins
- One of 2024's most-wanted JRPGs becomes one of the most promising manga as Metaphor: ReFantazio reveals new series with heavy Persona vibes
- Sony sure served up a feast for scalpers, who are already trying to flip the $999 PS5 Pro 30th anniversary bundle for $3,000 or even $5,000
- Genshin Impact mobile review: "Quite simply some of the most and purest fun you can have on a phone in 2024"
- Solo Leveling season 2 release date, trailer, and everything else we know so far
- First trailer for season 2 of Apple TV’s under-the-radar comedy sees Harrison Ford and Jason Segel attempt to become the therapist version of Batman and Robin
- Palworld guide to help you become a master Pal trainer
- Space Marine 2's directors had to "fight quite a lot" for one level to be included, as some people thought the game was becoming a "40K fancy dress party"
- 10 classic games you can revive on your phone
- The Wild Robot review: "Lupita Nyong’o is excellent in this gorgeous animation"
- Former Sony head responds to those complaining about Ghost of Yotei's female protagonist: "If you don't like it, don't buy it"
- Marvel star Tim Roth joins Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan in the Peaky Blinders movie
- The Rings of Power season 2 might have just had its most divisive moment yet – and Galadriel actor Morfydd Clark has thoughts
- The next Yakuza game is the most newcomer-friendly and "least shackled to past events in the Like a Dragon series" - all because its protagonist has amnesia
- Teen in Agatha All Along might actually be two Marvel characters according to a new theory
- The best Xbox games to play on your phone
- Samuel L. Jackson didn't think he would live long enough to fulfill his Marvel contract: "I didn't know they were gonna make nine movies in like two and a half years"
- Metaphor: ReFantazio demo launches on PC to framerate woes, but fans are already cracking fixes for the new JRPG
- I don't need a PS5 Pro to upgrade my setup thanks to this LG OLED TV deal
- The Rings of Power season 2 finale trailer teases the Stranger’s identity and a reunion between Galadriel and Sauron
- Sony's throwback PS5 Pro bundle sells out just as quickly as fans find out how much it actually costs
- Deadpool and Wolverine is campaigning for awards, including an Oscar for Hugh Jackman
- Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster collection and 2 classic JRPGs come to Xbox as Square Enix doubles down on its “multiplatform strategy approach”
- One of our first looks at Jenna Ortega in Wednesday season 2 is thanks to this perfect recreation of a TikTok trend
- As PlayStation and Xbox push high specs, Shigeru Miyamoto wants to be left out of the 'console wars' because Nintendo just wants to make games "unique to Nintendo"
- All Throne and Liberty coupons and how to redeem them
- Silent Hill 2 Remake is only coming to PC on launch day because Bloober Team "encouraged" Konami to release on Steam
- The identity of two of Agatha All Along's most mysterious characters have been revealed, all thanks to a leaked Funko Pop
- Where to buy the PS5 disc drive: all the latest stock
- The Rings of Power season 2 episode 7 just featured a brutal Tolkien battle, and I'm really worried about one of my favorite characters
- The Rings of Power season 2 episode 7 recap and Easter eggs: A kiss, Elven warfare, and nine rings
- Wait, what? Explaining *that* kiss in The Rings of Power season 2, episode 7 – and why it's so controversial
- Marvel's Agatha All Along creator says that Mephisto reference is "a nod" to all of those WandaVision fan theories
- Marvel's Agatha All Along creator reveals why episode 3's surprise death had to happen: "If you remove death it becomes inauthentic"
- Salem's Lot review: "This Stephen King adaptation is midnight movie kind of fun"
- Forget the PS5 Pro: Aussies can grab a PS5 slim for as little as AU$575 right now
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Resident Evil devs tout PS5 Pro benefits - and a lot of them are still talking about using a Performance Mode
- September 25
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- God of War Ragnarok's PSN bypass mod has been pulled because it "got too much attention" and its creator wanted to avoid "potential threats" from Sony
- J. Michael Straczynski returns to writing Thor and Spider-Man in Captain America #14
- PS5 Pro doesn't come with a disc drive because Sony says it's "giving players choices," like the choice to spend $80 extra to play the physical games "most players" have
- Ubisoft CEO says "our goal is not to push any specific agenda" amid "polarized comments" circling Assassin's Creed Shadows
- The Conjuring director James Wan is producing a Robocop TV show for Amazon Prime Video
- Making "solid" games isn't enough when you have "gamers expecting extraordinary experiences," Ubisoft CEO says after Star Wars Outlaws
- Meta Quest 3S is a cheaper VR headset at $300 and the original Quest 3 is dropping price to match
- Outsiders #11 wraps up the mind-bending series an issue early as it teases the return of a classic DC superteam
- Ghost of Yotei gives you guns and swords this time, and the devs want to avoid the "repetitive nature" of some open-world games
- Neil Druckmann teases The Last of Us season 2 scene that "fans of the game will eat up" because it adds new backstory to an "important character"
- The 35 greatest DC characters in movies and TV
- The Elder Scrolls: Castles review – "A retooled Fallout Shelter with more options and the same problems"
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard only carries over 3 decisions from Inquisition, but luckily your romance option is one of them
- Paddington 4 is in the works alongside a TV show as part of the bear's bid to become a "worldwide cultural phenomenon"
- The 10 best Netflix games you can play right now
- Star Wars Outlaws sales aren't great, now it hits Steam in November with its first "fairly meaty" DLC, and the devs promise "multiple" free updates
- Ubisoft says Assassin's Creed Shadows is "the most ambitious entry in the franchise" and was delayed last-minute because "we really want to make sure execution is flawless"
- Ubisoft responds to Ghost of Yotei and Assassin's Creed Shadows comparisons as its own open-world samurai game slips to 2025, stressing its dual protagonist approach
- Oops, the new Zelda game is "8 times the size" of Link's Awakening because Nintendo and Echoes of Wisdom devs just couldn't help themselves
- Monster Hunter Wilds PC system requirements are frankly terrifying – we might be in for a repeat of Monster Hunter World's GPU-melting launch
- EA FC 25 review: "Highly playable, yet naggingly familiar"
- As AAA companies drool over AI, Shigeru Miyamoto says "Nintendo would rather go in a different direction"
- Fortnite Flare Guns: Where to find them to set off fireworks
- The Nier Automata devs are thrilled to be part of Stellar Blade: "We will gladly say yes to anything for money"
- Fortnite Birthday Medallions: Where to find them
- Assassin's Creed Shadows delayed to February after "learnings from the Star Wars Outlaws release"
- Deadpool and Wolverine's digital release date has been confirmed, and it's coming with "hours" of bonus content – including TVA deleted scenes and Amazon-exclusive features
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard creative director would "love" to wrap up the RPG series' Netflix spin-off, but "not in the immediate future"
- Right before Sony dropped 3 remasters in 40 minutes, former Blizzard president echoed gamers tired of remasters: "Personally want to see sequels and new games"
- ArcheAge Chronicles is the 2013 ArcheAge MMO, now reimagined as an online action RPG that "transcends traditional MMORPG mechanics"
- Space Marine 2's game director knows Chaos isn't as fun to fight as Tyranids: "I don't think we did a good job in the end, but maybe next time"
- Nintendo had a 9-day Zelda "boot camp" with devs "working from morning until night" to figure out what the heck they were going to do with Echoes of Wisdom
- How we test board games at GamesRadar+
- Horizon: Zero Dawn studio director explains what's actually changed in the last 7 years with side-by-side screenshots
- Apple TV is being criticized online for ruining the ending of one of the best horror films ever made
- Claims that Concord cost $400 million are inaccurate, according to fan analysis that claims Sony's ill-fated hero-shooter was "a $150 million game failure"
- Saoirse Ronan reveals that her dream role would be a James Bond villain, says she wants to do more blockbusters
- Beyond Galaxyland is a spacefaring RPG that takes inspiration from everything from Final Fantasy 7 to The Goonies
- Ghost of Yotei - Everything we know so far about Ghost of Tsushima 2
- I've worked every PlayStation launch in the last 18 years, here are my top tips on pre-ordering PS5 Pro
- Daisy Ridley says she wouldn't have returned for Rey's new Star Wars movie if she "didn't think the story was worth telling"
- Sony's refusal to reveal the PS5 Pro 30th Anniversary bundle price means it's not for me and you
- Pixar’s Inside Out spin-off show gets its first trailer and it looks just as fun as the movies
- Stephen King says a new dark thriller has just become "one of the best movies" he's seen this year
- "I am the Ghost of Yotei" - Dragon Age: The Veilguard actor adopts the vengeful mask as Sucker Punch explains why it moved on from Tsushima's Jin Sakai
- Assassin's Creed Shadows on the PS5 Pro offers bonus immersion for its $700 price of entry
- Ghost of Yotei's trailer perfectly captures what made Ghost of Tsushima so special in the first place
- The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom review – "A refreshing, magic-filled retool of the Link's Awakening engine"
- Ghost of Yotei's title features a historical inaccuracy so clever that one Japanese scholar believes "it has to be intentional"
- Joker 2 director has a surprising answer to a question everyone has been asking: what if Arthur Fleck met Batman?
- Monster Hunter Wilds' Ultra Collector's Edition is $1260 and includes a literal bike, but is only available in Japan
- After beefing with Zelda and Elden Ring, the Horizon series curse continues as Zero Dawn Remastered clashes with Dragon Age
- Your Agatha All Along sleuthing is completely misdirected, as creator teases Teen’s identity is hiding elsewhere in the Marvel show
- The new Dragon Ball series is getting a surprise cinema release, but you'll have to be quick to see it
- HBO’s M. Night Shyamalan-produced horror movie gets new creepy trailer and it looks like Lake Mungo meets The Vanishing
- New Hellboy movie making surprise move of skipping theaters and heading straight to digital
- Supergirl's new villain actor actually almost played Batman in Zack Snyder's DCEU
- Metaphor: ReFantazio's Prologue demo is rolling out now, and save data will carry over into the Persona developer's new JRPG
- New horror anime based on one of Junji Ito's scariest manga lands a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- Despite shadow dropping in 68 other countries, Palworld on PS5 is indefinitely skipping Japan amid Nintendo's lawsuit
- My Old Ass review: "Aubrey Plaza's new comedy-drama is delightfully funny and unexpectedly emotional"
- Here's the four PS5 reveals everyone will be talking about out of that PlayStation State of Play showcase
- September 24
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- New Monster Hunter Wilds trailer reveals 3 more new monsters including the apparent flagship, and also fishing if you need a bit of a break
- Zenless Zone Zero is toning down its divisive "TV mode" after "a lot of negative feedback," which means I can finally try this painfully gorgeous action RPG
- Stellar Blade reveals crossover with similarly scantily-clad action RPG Nier: Automata
- Agatha All Along - The comic history of Agatha's coven and their ties to the Scarlet Witch explained
- Ghost of Tsushima follow-up Ghost of Yotei announced for 2025, Sucker Punch's next open-world game is set over 300 years later and stars a female lead in Hokkaido
- Post-apocalyptic FPS Metro Awakening is coming to PSVR2 later this year
- Final Fantasy creator's lovely JRPG Fantasian makes the great escape from Apple Arcade jail this December
- Monster Hunter Wilds release date officially set for February 2025, pre-orders open today
- Horizon Zero Dawn's remaster is real, and it improves the open-world game to match the visuals of its sequel
- Palworld powers through Nintendo's lawsuit to launch on PS5 today
- After 25 years, two classic JRPGs are coming back to life with the "definitive" Lunar Remastered Collection, out this spring
- Astro Bot is getting a free update with 5 speedrun levels and 10 bots to find, including the Helldivers and Stellar Blade's Eve
- Helldivers 2 takes a big swing in its Galactic War by letting players choose the home of a "Democracy Space Station" which "could change the course of the war"
- Tears of the Kingdom coach recreates the Olympic decathlon in Hyrule to force Link to compete and find out if Zelda's hero could take home the gold
- Zotac Zone review: “a promising Steam Deck OLED rival”
- With Teen's boyfriend, Agatha All Along may have snuck another Young Avenger into the MCU right under our noses
- The Boys season 5 gets cryptic with new casting announcement as Invincible actor is playing "a character": "That's all ya get for now"
- DC’s new Supergirl movie casts The Old Guard actor as its lead villain, a character you likely won't recognize
- All four major X-Men mutant classifications explained
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's most "spicy" romances even had the RPG's director "hollering" – "You may or may not wake up in a coffin"
- Steam's chillest new city-builder pushed to its limits with 30-hour recreation of Lord of the Rings' Rivendell
- Stellar strategy RPG Unicorn Overlord, my 2024 Game of the Year, has sold 1 million copies nearly 7x faster than its developer's previous game
- Sonic the Hedgehog is mashing up with the Justice League for a comic series that turns Sonic into the Flash, Shadow into Batman, and more
- PlayStation State of Play recap: All the news as it happened
- Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, the cult classic M-rated Zelda-like from the Tomb Raider devs, is finally getting its remaster according to rogue PlayStation Store listing
- See how Alex Ross paints Superman in an exclusive clip from upcoming documentary The Legend of Kingdom Come
- The Illumineer’s Trove is how I’d recommend any player experience Disney Lorcana Shimmering Skies and it’s $7 off right now
- There are so many Zelda games that even for Nintendo "it's not easy to touch on the lore" nowadays: "We've been told by our fans that it didn't make sense"
- 24 years later, the Gladiator 2 Maximus twist means I'll never be able to watch the original the same way again
- Joker: Folie à Deux marketing goes to the next level: a Harley Quinn concept album from Lady Gaga
- The follow-up RPG to one of Nintendo's most beloved 3DS gems finally got a solid release date following multiple delays, and there's not long left to wait now
- Horror meets sci-fi in V/H/S/Beyond trailer as early reviews call it the "strongest collection of tales in V/H/S history"
- Should you pre-order the PS5 Pro?
- Throne and Liberty builds for Tank, Healer, and Mage
- Thunderbolts release date, cast, trailer, plot, and more about the Marvel movie
- Space Marine 2 directors on defying trends to find success: "Somebody was willing to take that risk instead of making another battle royale"
- Marvel Rivals reveals brand-new hero Psylocke while seemingly confirming past character leaks with a sneaky Moon Knight teaser
- The one feature that put me off playing Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom actually makes me feel like a creative genius
- There’s a deep-cut comic book Easter egg in The Penguin episode 1 that you probably missed
- Agatha All Along theory suggests Aubrey Plaza's mysterious MCU role is a major comic book character
- Helldivers 2 player notices mistake in the game's opening cinematic that even the game director never noticed in 2 years: "I don't know how many times we reviewed this"
- Hideo Kojima praises Transformers One comparing it to his favorite X-Men movie
- For under $150, this 1440p Acer gaming monitor is an absolute steal - but it won't last long
- 18-hour GTA 5 no-death run ends in tragedy after streamer runs out of road before returning for vengeance 14 hours later
- First trailer for Michael B. Jordan and Black Panther director Ryan Coogler's vampire horror movie Sinners is Lovecraft Country meets Midnight Mass
- Who is Agatha's son Nicholas Scratch? Marvel fan theories might spell out the identity of Agatha All Along's third-most mysterious character
- Son of late Dumbledore actor Richard Harris responds to upcoming Harry Potter reboot: "The films were fantastic. Leave them alone."
- The Mobile Gaming Show is live – featuring updates from EVE developer CCP, Warframe's Digital Extremes, and more
- "Baldur's Gate 3, but Pathfinder, with miniatures": Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights veterans riff on Larian's hit by ditching D&D and going deeper on figurine fantasy
- Assassin's Creed Shadows leaks a series-first base-building system, and it sort of reminds me of The Sims
- First Terrifier 3 reviews call the horror film "big, intense" and "the best Terrifier yet"
- Monster Hunter Wilds dev says the series' true turning point wasn't Monster Hunter World, but a PSP game that came out 10 years earlier
- American Horror Story creator defends new controversial true crime show Monsters from backlash, as the show hits #1 on Netflix
- Turtle Beach Kone II Air review: “comfort reigns supreme”
- One of anime's best remakes is getting a second season: "The journey continues"
- Roblox Dress to Impress codes for fresh outfits and more
- Galadriel star Morfydd Clark is shipping two Rings of Power characters, but it's probably not who you think
- Xbox doesn't want me to tell you how to build your own Elite Series 2 controller with this deal
- The Thunderbolts trailer is hiding two sneaky Marvel Easter eggs
- GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 online services suffer outages in apparent DDoS attack over GTA Online's new anti-cheat tech
- Legend of Zelda producer confirms that 2D games like Echoes of Wisdom will coexist with 3D titles like Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom
- World of Warcraft grinder gets their 1,000th mount after 20 years of playing the MMO: "What a long, strenuous, fun and at times annoying journey it’s been"
- Boardwalk Empire creator reveals the incredible Batman spin-off that was scrapped because director Matt Reeves "wasn't feeling it"
- Japanese patent law expert says Nintendo may have strengthened its claims specifically to target Palworld
- The Lego Millennium Falcon has hit its lowest ever price - this is not a drill
- September 23
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- The comic history of The Void, the villainous dark side of The Sentry, Lewis Pullman's potential Thunderbolts MCU character
- Nearly 3 years after starting Pokemon Sapphire, the mathematical concept of Pi has a level 88 Sceptile but still can't escape the starting town
- One of last year's best Metroidvanias is about to get better: Blasphemous 2 gets DLC and a free update next month with new areas, bosses, New Game+, and more
- Noted Warhammer sicko Henry Cavill is loving Space Marine 2, and like many players can't beat it on the highest difficulty – "which I love"
- Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi to star in Wuthering Heights adaptation from Saltburn director
- The superhero Stan Lee forgot: The comic book history of The Sentry, Lewis Pullman's potential MCU role in Thunderbolts
- Halloween favorite Over the Garden Wall returns to streaming, teases 10th anniversary collaboration with Wallace and Gromit studio
- Stardew Valley creator explains that releasing 1.6 update on PC first was to avoid "critical bugs," but "never intended for the delay to be this long"
- HBO’s new Green Lantern show from Watchmen producer reportedly casts Friday Night Lights star as DC's Hal Jordan
- Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom was a "dungeon creation" game until Eiji Aonuma flipped the table a year in – "I was right next to them thinking of something different"
- Zelda games that can "fly in the face" of game design theory look like the future: Eiji Aonuma worried Echoes of Wisdom had "too much freedom," then added more freedom
- PlayStation State of Play for September confirmed with "30+ minutes" on "more than 20 upcoming PS5 and PS VR2 games"
- The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, the first Zelda game with its princess as its protagonist, is also the first Zelda game directed by a woman
- Breath of the Wild's most notorious shrine exploit was key for Echoes of Wisdom, series producer says: "If this kind of solution isn't allowed, then it's not fun"
- As a lifelong Sims fan, the latest update that the movie will have "a lot of lore" has me very excited
- One of anime's big fall 2024 shows is kicking off with a movie-length premiere
- Fortnite Stark Fan Club quests: Where to find items to donate
- GamesRadar+ presents: Mobile Gaming Week 2024
- Survival city builder Frostpunk 2 sells 350,000 copies in 3 days, immediately covering its development and marketing costs: "The work doesn't stop here"
- Warrior actor confirms cancelation of hit cult series after Netflix acquires streaming rights: "We don’t have the chance to continue the story"
- Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero voice actor says they "spent a full year recording" the game, which makes sense given that it has 182 playable characters
- The Casting of Frank Stone's most shocking twist makes it a great Dead by Daylight game, but a disappointing Supermassive game
- The graphic novel adaptation of post-apocalyptic classic The Road is one of the most frightening and beautiful comics you will read this year
- Sony's 30th Anniversary PS5 Pro is likely to cost at least $50 more than the standard version, based on the leaked PS5 Slim price
- Oddity review: "In a strong year for indie horror movies, this is one of the finest – and scariest"
- Annatar's latest trick in The Rings of Power season 2 was brought to life by the most incredible practical effect we've seen in some time
- Florence Pugh and David Harbour reunite as Marvel's most broken heroes assemble in first trailer for Thunderbolts
- The new Gladiator 2 trailer just confirmed Lucius is Maximus' son, and Paul Mescal has the perfect reaction
- Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed review – "A detailed and lovingly made recreation of a 2010s classic"
- How to use Shadows of Doubt upgrades and SyncDisks
- 10 Shadows of Doubt tips and tricks we wish we'd known before we started sleuthing
- How to use guns and weapons in Shadows of Doubt
- How to arrest people in Shadows of Doubt
- Shadows of Doubt review: "The true potential of this detective sim is limitless - but it just hasn't reached that point yet"
- 17 years later, an acclaimed anime movie is finally getting a live-action adaptation
- MTG Duskmourn Commander decks, ranked
- After playing Fire Emblem Engage and revisiting Three Houses, I'm yearning for older Fire Emblem RPGs to come to Switch
- The first big Helldivers 2 patch of Arrowhead's 60-day recovery plan kicks off a redemption arc, with player numbers and reviews steadily improving
- One of Netflix’s most-watched anime shows My Happy Marriage gets a new trailer and return window – and you won’t be waiting long for season 2
- Space Marine 2 devs already have plans for DLC and even a sequel: "We will not disappoint our Warhammer fans in the future"
- 25 years after its initial release and 4 years after the remake, the original Resident Evil 3 is finally coming to PC
- New War of the Rohirrim set for Lord of the Rings wargame remakes models I never expected to see again
- The Penguin's Cristin Milioti has the perfect counterpoint for everyone who dunks on Batman Forever and Batman and Robin
- Space Marine 2 has been such a huge success that it "changes everything" for its developers: "You look at yourself through a different lens"
- Metaphor: ReFantazio leads thought it would be shorter than Persona 5 but just kept adding content, so now we're matching the fan-favorite JRPG's 100-hour runtime
- Terrifier 4 is officially happening so strap in for more Art the Clown
- Baldur's Gate 3 returns to the combat roots set out by the original D&D RPGs, as one intrepid modder gets real-time fights working with a nod to Neverwinter Nights
- Each of Assassin's Creed Shadows' four seasons features different kinds of weather, but that won't affect gameplay because Ubisoft doesn't want it to have a "negative impact"
- Student gamers don’t need to compromise on power with one of Currys' slim gaming laptop deals
- Marvel Studios' TV boss reveals his dream MCU series – and it involves a complete newcomer
- After hundreds of videos over 9 years, 88-year-old 'Skyrim Grandma' is retiring because "it isn't fun anymore, I'm tired of it, I'm bored to death with it"
- Throne and Liberty weapon combos to determine your playstyle
- The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 2 review: "Frustrating follow-up lacks the freshness of the far-superior first season"
- September 22
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- The long-awaited Stardew Valley 1.6 update will finally arrive on console and mobile in November
- Nintendo lawsuit could see Palworld reworked or removed and is an investment in "unspoken fear," lawyer says: "Don’t cross us and we won’t do it to you"
- Lord of the Rings finally meets Stardew Valley in March as Tales of the Shire sets a new release date
- I should have loved playing Tales of the Shire, but this Stardew Valley and Lord of the Rings mash-up has a distinct lack of vibes
- Ice Truckers is an open-world truck sim that might as well be a horror game judging by the levels of anxiety this frigid screenshot is giving me
- In an era where sequels take years, Baldur's Gate 3 developer calls Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii's quick turnaround "genius sh*t"
- Former Overwatch pro blasts Deadlock as "dogs**t" during a particularly bad game, only to have a huge change of heart later that day: "The future of gaming"
- Microsoft's next-gen console plans reportedly include an Xbox Series X successor and a handheld "take on the Steam Deck"
- Dragon Age director says every RPG in the series "reinvents itself," so The Veilguard takes "fan favorite features" from Origins, DA2, and Inquisition
- PSA: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom rom containing full game has leaked ahead of Nintendo's official launch
- Baldur's Gate 3 studio wanted to make 2 RPGs at once, but its devs "got swallowed by the ambitions of the one we want to release first"
- PUBG creator says his massive new open-world game is like "building a Holodeck" where players can "create whatever experience they want"
- Former Skyrim developer outlines what The Elder Scrolls 6 needs to ensure it's a good sequel - and what Starfield stripped from Fallout 4
- September 21
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- "You've been waiting for this moment": New Dragon Ball: Sparkling Zero trailer is straight-up '90s Toonami nostalgia
- Annapurna Interactive's Blade Runner 2033 game reportedly still moving ahead, despite all full-time developers quitting: "The whole situation is a baffler"
- "Technological restrictions" meant BioWare relied on cutscenes in its older RPGs, but Dragon Age: The Veilguard director says it's giving us "much more immediate control"
- Amid the Palworld dispute, one analyst says Nintendo only strikes when it wants to because it "could have sued half the gaming industry back in 2017"
- GTA 6 has a lot to live up to, a former Rockstar dev says Vice City was so accurate he could use it as a map to get around real-life Miami
- IP expert says Nintendo probably doesn't own patents strong enough to "prevent Pocketpair from making Palworld," and this "may boil down to nothing but bullying"
- Dev of French JRPG that stunned at the Xbox Showcase "not hiding" influence of Persona and Final Fantasy 8, 9, and 10, but wants to "find our own direction"
- Kill Team: Hivestorm might be the best starter set Warhammer has made, if you ask me
- September 20
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- Mephisto - The comic history of the demonic villain who could appear in Agatha All Along
- Apartment 7A review: "A credible horror prequel that recaptures the atmosphere but not the originality of Rosemary's Baby"
- Minecraft is finally coming to PS5 a year after Xbox boss Phil Spencer told the FTC Sony was "reluctant" to send them dev kits
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii actually leaked months ago, but it was so ridiculous nobody believed it was real
- The 32 greatest horror movies that aren't actually scary
- Yuri manga fans rally to save a series they can't officially read, pushing it up sales charts and stunning its creator: "There are no words to describe how moved I am"
- Young mutants mourn the death of one of their own in NYX #3
- Bungie says Destiny 2 Titans deserve class identity that's "more than the sum of its fists," responds by giving them stronger fists – and also a lot of cooler buffs
- IP expert says Nintendo's Palworld lawsuit is "more likely" to take 5 years than to finish in 1, but Pocketpair can "easily" afford the legal battle
- Types of board games, explained
- After 13 Yakuza games and 20 years, Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is finally adding a jump button that could open up some wild minigame potential
- Nintendo's Pokeball patent could be at the heart of its Palworld lawsuit, and judging by a 29-year-old precedent it could change monster-collecting RPGs for decades
- New players get a huge bonus when they join hit multiplayer fantasy RPG Hero Wars: Dominion Era
- Metamorpho is back in his own title which writer Al Ewing promises will show superheroes at their "wildest and weirdest"
- DC reveals its full slate of December 2024 comics and covers featuring Superman, Batman, the Justice League, Santa Claus, and more
- How we test projectors at GamesRadar
- After burning out on their co-op horror sensation, Lethal Company creator teases more about their free "open-world, auditory text-based adventure"
- Amazon confirms Majima casting in Like a Dragon: Yakuza – and it's an actor brought in from the games
- Assassin's Creed fans have waited years for a game set in Japan, but Ubisoft thinks Shadows is "great timing" and part of the developer's "natural evolution"
- Dragon Age timeline and story explained - breaking down the lore in the lead up to Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Obsbot Talent review: "A one-man content creation band"
- Larian shows mercy, stops Baldur's Gate 3's hardest enemies from kicking your teeth in after you leave an Honour Mode campaign
- I feel like I'm living and breathing Slavic folklore in this mystical adventure game, and I never want to leave it
- Never Let Go review: "Halle Berry's new horror is a taut exploration of fear and paranoia"
- Baldur’s Gate 3 and Dragon Age: The Veilguard aren’t competitors — they’re siblings
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard director says there are no DLC plans because Inquisition's expansion "should have been part of the base game"
- This meta anime about creating anime from the studio behind Attack on Titan has just shot to the top of my most-wanted list with this 75-second trailer
- New Netflix horror movie produced by Evil Dead director gets its first creepy, claustrophobic trailer
- Final Fantasy 16's Clive actor thinks the action RPG's brooding lead should make a comeback in something way more chill: "Stardew Valley, but with Clive. Why not?"
- Kathryn Hahn pitched her own nude scene in Agatha All Along, and the Marvel spin-off's creator thought it was "the greatest idea ever"
- Crucial T500 review: "At the highest end of the market, this doesn't stand out in the same way"
- Set after Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, the next totally unexpected Yakuza game has Goro Majima living his best life as a high-seas pirate
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard has a ton of options for people who don't like Ubisoft-style waypoints clogging the screen
- New Netflix animated series Splinter Cell gets first trailer starring X-Men Origins’ Liev Schreiber
- There's a Riddler Easter egg in The Penguin that you probably missed – and it will be very familiar to fans of The Batman
- After the success of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Netflix is returning to Night City for another anime project with CDPR
- Thunderbolts star Sebastian Stan teases Bucky's role in the Marvel movie – and pushes back on MCU criticism
- As PlayStation's 30th anniversary nears, Hideo Kojima recalls moving to Tokyo solo with just the console and a TV to make Metal Gear Solid: "This shift significantly expanded my world"
- The Sandman season 2 release date speculation, cast, trailer, and more news
- Nintendo's patent lawsuit shows it's "given up making the case that Palworld's characters are similar to Pokemon's," analyst explains
- One of Netflix's most anticipated anime shows sets date and gets new trailer – and it's giving us serious John Wick vibes
- Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley’s new body horror is a fleshy commentary on societal pressures – and the most unique experience you’ll ever have in a theater
- 5 years after it was first announced, Netflix’s Magic: The Gathering series finally gets a positive update
- New One Piece season 2 video teases the arrival of Chopper as Joe Manganiello joins the cast
- Stranger Things season 5 continues its reign as Netflix's most secretive show as new set tour reveals almost nothing
- Anime adaptation of Devil May Cry lands epic first trailer as showrunner says it will be "one of the best shows on the Netflix platform"
- Lara Croft wields her iconic twin pistols in new trailer for Netflix Tomb Raider anime
- Netflix shares first look at the "twisted" Wednesday season 2, as it's confirmed for 2025
- The Sandman season 2 first major details revealed – as well as a 2025 release window
- Arcane season 2 finally sets release date on Netflix, and it's getting split into three parts
- Netflix reveals cryptic first look at The Last Airbender season 2 to mark the beginning of production
- Squid Game season 2 trailer heads back into the arena for more sadistic games in first major look at return of Netflix’s most-streamed show of all time
- The Penguin episode 1 recap and Easter eggs: Move over Batman, gang warfare is coming to Gotham
- When does The Penguin take place on The Batman timeline?
- The Penguin: Who is Sofia Falcone and why is she known as the Hangman in the new show?
- Helldivers 2 lead says the game's balance problems were "a leadership issue more than anything" and the new buff patch was made by "the same people" who made the nerfs
- September 19
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- Following Concord's shutdown, the hero shooter's director is reportedly stepping down and taking on a "support role" as some Firewalk devs fear mass layoffs
- Marvel reveals its full slate of December 2024 comics and covers featuring the Spider-Man, X-Men, the Avengers, and more
- Metaphor: ReFantazio devs say the JRPG's high-stakes elections are just like driving a race car, which is why they're sponsoring F1's most lovable losers
- Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero full roster at launch will include 182 fighters with 20 Gokus, 15 Vegetas, and naturally, just one lonely Krillin
- 17 years after the film was released, Zack Snyder gives an exciting update on his 300 TV series
- Skullgirls creator is the lead character designer on this unsurprisingly horny Pokemon-inspired RPG where you catch and date over 120 monster girls and guys
- Fallout TV show's sweetest star is a brutal murderer with a long kill list in the new trailer for thriller series from Slow Horses producers
- Early Dragon Age: The Veilguard impressions call it a "comeback" for BioWare, a "definite GOTY contender", and the series' "Mass Effect 2 moment"
- The Penguin makes The Gotham Gazette real for one day only as the Max series takes over The New York Times to explain everything that's happened since The Batman
- The 2024 D&D Player's Handbook is 20% off thanks to this first discount
- It's taken a week for the PS5 disc drive to sell out for real, but with PS5 Pro on the horizon I fear scalper mania is only beginning
- Analysts expect PS6 and next-gen Xbox to be "at least" $600: "PlayStation is clearly testing the waters with its PS5 Pro pricing"
- Spelunky legend's 50-game collection of roguelikes, JRPGs, and more launches to 91% reviews and the sudden revelation that it's hiding far more than 50 games
- 20 years after their last solo series, the Challengers of the Unknown are back – and they're bringing Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman with them
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake developer insists the RPG is still alive, and it's even got a fresh cash investment to make sure it happens
- With Space Marine 2 out, Helldivers 2 players can't help but notice a familiar 40K face in the superstore
- HP Victus 16 review: "a real showcase for the RTX 4050"
- "Nintendo felt threatened" by Palworld's sales success and anime expansion, analyst says: "This lawsuit would have never happened if Palworld had 500 users per day"
- EA's new plan for The Sims 4 sounds like it's getting the Fortnite treatment, and I don't know who it's for
- The DLC for my favorite Soulslike inches closer as Lies of P shares new teasers: "We aim to do better on what we did well and improve in areas we have room to grow"
- Disney Lorcana Shimmering Skies doesn't add new mechanics, but I think that's for the best
- PS5 Pro is getting a gorgeous PS1 gray 30th anniversary edition in a "highly limited supply" of 12,300 units, and there's no way it's going to be less than $1,000
- Black Mirror season 7 adds Doctor Who and Marvel stars to its cast, as well as an Oscar nominee
- "I think this will end bad for Pocketpair": Analyst says Nintendo's "feared" legal team wouldn't sue Palworld unless it was confident of victory
- PUBG studio doesn't think Hi-Fi Rush 2 will "make us money," but that's not why they saved Tango Gameworks: "The big hit shouldn't be your goal"
- Agatha All Along creator on why we never see [SPOILER]'s face in episode 1: "The show isn't her story"
- Oops, Helldivers 2 buffed players so hard that they can fly now, and the game's creative lead is pretending he hasn't noticed this amazing bug
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard devs "try to avoid the idea of there being a single canon," and they'd rather ignore your choices in the previous RPGs than undo them
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard – The Big Preview
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard director says she'd "love" a Mass Effect-style trilogy remaster, but its fate is still "TBD" for now
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard creative director answers all of our important questions and some less-important ones: "I am a Final Fantasy 10 diehard; I love the Sphere Grid"
- Yes, Dragon Age: The Veilguard's darkspawn really do look goofy for a lore reason
- I spent nearly 7 hours playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard and would like to spend 100 more in this RPG right now, thank you very much
- New horror movie with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score gets a creepy new trailer featuring Hugh Grant as you've never seen him before
- One of the top Alienware gaming monitors around just dropped to a new record low price
- Orphan Black spin-off canceled, not even a month after its first season ended
- After playing Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, I'm convinced it has what it takes to reinvigorate anime arena fighters
- Flappy Bird's new owners try to clear confusion about its zombified mobile comeback, all while ignoring the big crypto-shaped elephant in the room
- The 10 Best Batman comics of all time
- I'm a lifelong Pokemon fan who never clicked with the card game, but after a bit of Pokemon TCG Pocket I understand the battle system better than ever
- The New Gods will act as a grand unifier for the new DC universe "bringing unexpected characters and consequences into play"
- Star Wars: Skeleton Crew co-creator says the show is inspired by a classic Pirates of the Caribbean-like LucasArts game
- Zack Snyder talks reinterpreting figures like Thor and Loki in his new Netflix show: "What we've done with them is put them back to a more mythological representation"
- Agatha All Along's broken clocks might be the key to unlocking this bewitching new Marvel theory
- Palworld rumbles on with a "fatal bug" fix that stops wild and base Pals from moving and working, hours after Nintendo publicly announced its lawsuit
- Marvel fans are convinced Aubrey Plaza's Agatha All Along character is the child of a fan-favorite villain
- Hit Super Smash Bros-like fighter sequel had to completely rebrand a month before release "because Marvel Rivals is actually a good game"
- "Nintendo may be reaching" in its Palworld lawsuit, according to a lawyer who says it's "hard to imagine what patents" the survival game could have infringed upon
- David Harbour says the Stranger Things season 5 finale table featured "so much heavy, heavy weeping" from the cast
- Dragon Age veteran says he got a prize from EA because Inquisition "saved the quarter," crushing all claims that the series was a financial flop
- The Rings of Power season 2 just quoted Gandalf again, and the Stranger’s identity seems almost certain now
- On vacation, no one can hear you scream… New comic Alien: Paradiso is told partly from the Xenomorph's point of view
- Zack Snyder breaks down his bloody, explicit Netflix show's mature rating: "I was waiting for them to tell me to stop, but they never did"
- Square Enix admits it might be cannibalizing its own games as multiple RPGs, including Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, get hit with its classic 'below expectations' line
- Agatha All Along is hiding secret references to Elizabeth Olsen and Stan Lee in one blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment
- The Rings of Power season 2 episode 7 trailer sees Elves and Orcs clash in battle, and two major reunions
- I think MTG Foundations is how I'll get my kid into Magic: The Gathering
- Palworld developer responds to Nintendo lawsuit, says "we will do our utmost" to ensure that indie devs "are not hindered or discouraged from pursuing their creative ideas"
- The Rings of Power season 2 episode 6 recap and Easter eggs: War comes to Eregion
- The Rings of Power season 2 episode 6 just set up the darkest moment of the show yet – if they stick to Tolkien
- Who is Fëanor in The Rings of Power? His Lord of the Rings history explained
- Who is Teen in Agatha All Along? Joe Locke's mysterious Marvel character's true identity has finally been revealed
- Agatha All Along episode 1 might have just confirmed the Scarlet Witch's fate following Doctor Strange 2
- Agatha All Along Easter eggs: All the nods to Marvel and more in the Disney Plus series
- When does Agatha All Along take place on the Marvel timeline?
- Agatha All Along review: "Wacky, Wizard of Oz-esque series is hex-actly what Marvel needs"
- God of War Ragnarok's PC port is getting two new features before the PS5 version, and one of them stops companions from spoiling puzzles
- September 18
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- It's official: Palworld has been Nintendo'd as The Pokemon Company files lawsuit against Pocketpair for infringing "multiple patent rights"
- Former Elder Scrolls dev says Todd Howard would sometimes work on "two dozen" projects at once and is the face of Bethesda partly because he's "incredibly photogenic"
- Ghost Rider is a hamburger, Wolverine is a banana, and more Marvel characters get wacky mash-ups in Marvel x Fortnite variant covers
- Enotria: The Last Song review: "A sun-drenched Bloodborne that doesn't quite live up to the inspiration"
- 10 years later, the Monster Hunter-style action-RPG Freedom Wars is finally escaping Vita jail with a PS5 and Switch remaster
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard lead says experience with The Sims was a big help when designing BioWare's next RPG – "How did The Sims 4 handle this?"
- Tetsuya Nomura acknowledges that Kingdom Hearts 4 is more like Kingdom Hearts 13, but the story's gotten a "reset" to keep new players from getting confused
- The latest Megalopolis review is in, and it’s a 5-star Letterboxd score from the divisive movie’s own director
- The 33 greatest Matt Damon movies
- Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy veteran says he started making hot characters after a friend said he didn't want to be "ugly" in games, and then never stopped
- Sam Lake "politely" asked Alan Wake 2 devs to kill him more violently: "There was hardly any blood in the first iteration"
- The Witcher community is praising "God-tier" Geralt in the new spin-off movie trailer, but fans are divided about the overall direction
- Cable is back in his own X-Men solo comic that sends him to a dystopian future
- It's taken 4 years and roughly $900 million, but Genshin Impact is a better open-world RPG than ever after update 5.0
- After completely revamping how Minecraft does updates, the devs will unveil the first features of the new era this month
- Absolute Power: Super Son #1 clarifies the fate of a major DC character
- Baldur's Gate 3 devs love the Ultima RPGs, and boss Swen Vincke says "never say never" on Larian reviving the series
- Helldivers 2 boss responds to sentiment that Space Marine 2 could eat their lunch: "We should be grateful for getting several awesome games"
- PS5 Pro tech analysis shows "huge image quality improvements" to Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's awful 60 FPS mode
- Biggest ever discount on the Scarlet & Violet Temporal Force Elite Trainer Box means now is the perfect time to add to your Pokemon TCG collection
- Will & Harper review: "Will Ferrell's Netflix road-trip documentary is authentic and moving"
- Strange Darling review: "Move over Longlegs, another independent serial-killer horror is set to make a splash"
- Parasite director's next movie has already got the seal of approval from its writer: "I can't express how jazzed I am right now"
- The first trailer for Amazon's remake of one of the most-streamed shows of all time is here, and fans are divided
- Skyrim and Starfield veteran says it's "almost impossible" for The Elder Scrolls 6 to meet expectations
- Nintendo Switch 2 mania hits fever pitch with the internet dissecting allegedly 'leaked' images of the new console
- Netflix releases behind-the-scenes look at One Piece season 2 that features sets pulled directly from the manga
- Venom 3 is the latest movie to unveil its popcorn bucket, and I don't know how much more I can take of this trend
- Batman sets a new world record by becoming the first ever superhero to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Dragon Age veteran says his favorite BioWare RPGs are actually Neverwinter Nights and Jade Empire because they came before the industry's "necessary evils"
- They won’t stop making Mickey Mouse horror movies – and now a Steamboat Willie slasher is on the way
- Steam users give Final Fantasy 16 a 'very positive' score after 900 reviews, but suggest you don't play the action RPG without this mod
- Pokemon shiny hunter spends almost a year looking for 1 of Scarlet and Violet's rarest finds, then wins the sparkly mouse lottery by getting 2 of them back to back
- Cruising around a strange planet in a beat-up van is my idea of the perfect sci-fi adventure in Caravan SandWitch
- Fortnite Stark Industries Chests: Where to find them
- HTC Vive's next VR headset feels like a sequel to one of the best ever made
- The Rings of Power fans are convinced Adar is going to meet a terrible fate: "Dude's about to die the most gruesome death to ever grace a screen"
- Dan Da Dan release date, trailer, story, and everything else you need to know about the new Netflix anime
- Frankenstein set photos show Oscar Isaac in costume for Guillermo del Toro’s new Netflix horror adaptation
- Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred isn't the only big thing on the RPG's horizon, as devs say Season 6 "does for progression" what Season 4 did for improving loot
- Fortnite's new Iron Man gear is ridiculously good, and even the overpowered Doctor Doom powers are struggling against it
- Mystery horror movie dropping creepy found footage clips online has finally been revealed – and it's not Creep 3
- Dead by Daylight's co-op shooter spin-off canceled just 4 months after its first "unsatisfactory" playtest results
- Cillian Murphy delivers a quietly powerful performance in new trailer for his first post-Oppenheimer movie
- Halle Berry’s new horror movie is giving Longlegs a run for its money as it's called the best horror movie of 2024 in first reactions
- Aubrey Plaza thinks Marvel fans are going to go wild at her character reveal, and everyone is making the same joke
- Assassin's Creed Shadows sneaks onto PLAY's cover
- As the first big Helldivers 2 patch of Arrowhead's 60-day plan wins back divers, the shooter's creative director agrees that "nerfing is an unimaginative way of tweaking a game"
- Popular GTA Online mod menu says "the future is very uncertain" after a new GTA 5 update adds anti-cheat: "This is most likely the end for now"
- "Hello old friend": The Witcher 3 actor offers heartfelt message as he returns to Geralt's iconic gravelly voice in Netflix's "amazing" animated movie
- Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered leaks just 7 years after Aloy's original open-world game, again prompting the question: 'How soon is too soon for a remaster, Sony?'
- Kevin Feige's four words of advice to Ryan Reynolds "haunted" him when making Deadpool and Wolverine
- Elgato Prompter review: “Elgato at its innovative best”
- Sci-fi meets dark comedy in first trailer for Robert Pattinson’s new movie from Parasite director
- For Pokemon Emerald's 20th birthday, 130 artists grouped up and redrew all 386 Pokemon and put them all in a playable romhack
- September 17
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- After 29 years, the cult classic survival horror game that haunted my childhood dreams is getting its first official release outside Japan just in time for Halloween
- The Fantastic Four gets Disney-fied as Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Goofy become the FF in a new mash-up comic
- Marvel's speculative sidekicks the New Champions become canon in their own comic
- EA execs say generative AI is "not merely a buzzword for us, it's the very core of our business," then pretend to tell a computer to generate buildings live on stage
- EA has four "fully resourced" studios working on Battlefield multiplayer, single player, and a "new Battlefield experience" – "We're taking more time in the dev cycle"
- This new FPS is like Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines meets Borderlands and we can't wait to sink our teeth into it
- Helldivers 2's new major order tells players to take their newly buffed weapons and let 'em rip to "expand the net quantity of freedom" across the galaxy
- This new Netflix thriller based on a true story about a woman set up with a serial killer on a game show might be the wildest one yet
- Cobra Kai's Hawk actor says he would've "loved" to stay a villain and addresses his character's controversial loss: "To me, it didn't make any sense"
- EA says Respawn is working on "the final chapter" of Star Wars Jedi, and over 40 million people have played the first 2
- The Witcher game actor Doug Cockle returns to voice Geralt in first clip from Netflix's new spin-off Sirens of the Deep
- A year later, barely any of Cities: Skylines 2's first-year DLC has actually launched and now it's all been delayed again
- The first crossover of the new X-Men age is revealed in advance X-Men solicitations
- Xbox Series X/S sales are reportedly less than half of the PS5's, with Microsoft on track for a repeat of PS4 vs Xbox One
- The early hero of Helldivers 2's big September 17 update is the Thermite Grenade, which Arrowhead buffed from 100 to 2,000 democracy-delivering explosion damage
- Scalpers are already profiting off PS5 Pro disc drives on eBay because people don't seem to realize they never actually sold out at retail
- Frostpunk 2 review: "An engrossing city builder and a nearly perfect example of how to do a sequel"
- LG UltraGear 32GS95UE-B OLED review: “The most versatile gaming monitor I’ve tested yet”
- MTG Duskmourn Commander decklists – full card list with Archenemy scheme cards
- Assassin's Creed Shadows is bigger than Mirage but smaller than Valhalla because Ubisoft only needed to make a small slice of Japan: "We're talking about Origins big"
- All the biggest changes in the latest Helldivers 2 patch notes
- Skate 4 is finally launching in early access in 2025 after 4 years of teasers and playtests
- HBO boss dismisses Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin's House of the Dragon concerns, says season 2 did "really, really well"
- Red Dead Redemption 1 PC hopium is reaching unprecedented levels, and after 14 years this time it looks like the Steam release might actually be real
- The Sims movie is officially happening and it will be "truly authentic", with one key detail for all the sickos out there: a pool without a ladder
- How to solve The Plucky Squire forest puzzle and get the cat biscuits
- The Plucky Squire Adventure Mode and Story Mode differences explained
- How to open the gate in The Plucky Squire
- How to move the books in The Plucky Squire and get over the hole
- How to get past the huge bug in The Plucky Squire
- The Plucky Squire review: "A fascinating interplay of 2D and 3D puzzles that makes no apology with its bodacious references to a bygone era"
- EA decides adding paid mods to The Sims 4 is a good idea, because it worked out so well for Bethesda with Skyrim and Fallout 4
- The Penguin's name change has sparked a fascinating fan theory about another key DC villain connection
- Spider-Boy and Kidpool meet for the first time in a Christmas one-shot that promises anarchy and lightsabers
- The Nintendo Switch 2 hasn't even been announced properly yet, but this Stardew Valley-like life sim was just confirmed as one of its first games
- One of the most emotional Baldur's Gate 3 moments was totally unscripted and "done in one take" because the director "wanted to make sure this lightning was captured"
- Don't miss one of Baldur's Gate 3's best companion stories just because you're mad he ate your shoes
- Blue Lock season 2 trailer raises the stakes of the sports anime as the team preps for an epic soccer tournament
- 5 days after reports of 650 more Microsoft gaming layoffs, the company announces plans to pay out even more money to shareholders
- GTA Online gets the anti-cheat support on PC it's sorely needed for the last 9 years, but Steam Deck players are paying the price
- Flexispot M17 standing desk converter review: "all the functionality of the real deal"
- Is Batman in The Penguin?
- Hugh Grant based his creepy killer in new horror movie Heretic on real people
- Former Capcom, Ubisoft, and Riot devs team up for a co-op action RPG with a dash of roguelikes and a heaping helping of magical girls, and boy is it pretty
- My Time at Evershine is finally adding the multiplayer mode that fans of the cozy RPG sim series have wanted for years
- My Time at Evershine is an ambitious sequel harboring all of the cozy elements fans know and love, with a bit of city-builder flair mixed in
- One line from Sauron in The Rings of Power season 2 foreshadows Aragorn in the best way
- Space Marine 2's big twist is a reward for fans of the first game
- Pokemon Company wins $15 million copyright case against 6 Chinese companies who developed 1 creature-catching RPG that flew too close to the Solrock
- Taika Waititi's cult sci-fi show has been canceled just 54 days after its premiere
- As the PS5 Pro's $700 price tag continues to divide fans, Sony exec points out that PCs are difficult to set up and mobile games have ads
- Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam gets cast as the real-life serial killer who The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based on in Netflix’s Monster series
- James Cameron has a new movie in the works based on an unbelievable true story that he'll make "as soon as Avatar production permits"
- New Netflix documentary about a terminally ill player’s devotion to World of Warcraft gets touching first trailer showing the power of online community
- As Final Fantasy 16 players face crashes, mysterious black squares, and a flood of eternal darkness after the recent PS5 system update, Square Enix and Sony vow to find a cure
- Noah Hawley is bringing his "own thoughts" to the Xenomorph's design in the new Alien TV show, but is keeping one iconic element intact
- It looks like we'll be getting The Last of Us season 2 in a matter of months
- Dragon's Dogma 2 now has a "Casual Mode" that makes the RPG easier, reducing prices and removing the "devastating calamity" that may befall Pawns
- First major patch of Helldivers 2's 60-day plan is a huge list of changes designed to do two things: Keep divers alive for longer, and kill Bots and Bugs much quicker
- New Marvel series Agatha All Along called "perfect", "fun" and "even better than WandaVision" in glowing first reactions
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' gameplay will be affected by Ubisoft's fancy new weather tech, and the studio says its future games will incorporate it "in much more depth"
- September 16
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- Yoshi-P to Final Fantasy 16 modders now that the action-RPG's on PC: don't make this weird, please
- New Netflix anime series from the makers of Tekken unveils its first clip – and it looks like The Walking Dead meets Star Wars
- After 30 years, The Punisher arcade game finally gets a home port worth playing - "No matter what, our goal was to get as close to the original version as possible"
- Respawn and Battlefield boss says the PS5 Pro's $700 price tag is "actually not that bad," and "if you get a $700 PC, you're not getting the same performance"
- Dev of Silent Hill-inspired survival horror game floored to see it pop off on Steam, with reviews coming roughly 300x faster than their last title: "Absolutely insane"
- Battlefield boss says the next game is ditching Specialists and returning to modern day because 3 and 4 were the "pinnacle of Battlefield"
- GTA 6 will sell "for 10+ years," and because "there is no competition" Rockstar is "not going to release the game until they're 100% happy with it," reckons former GTA dev
- Indie dev removes fall damage from their 6-player city builder "because it's annoying" and also because their mom said they can't
- Donald Glover just wants his Lando Star Wars spin-off movie to be fun because "we have a responsibility to have enjoyment" and "we're lacking in that department"
- Core Keeper dev celebrates going "from being called a 'fat nerd' as a child, to making maps for Heroes 3 and WarCraft 3, to now having a game that has more than 3 million players"
- Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero has 5,000 dialogue lines you can use to live out your wildest fan fiction ideas in Custom Battle
- The next Game of Thrones spin-off has finished filming
- 12,000 consoles with 47 million pirated games seized by Italian police in $52 million retro game trafficking bust leaving 9 pirates facing up to 8 years in prison
- Intel reportedly lost a PS6 deal worth $30 billion to AMD, with Sony eyeing next-gen backwards compatibility
- Everything we know about MTG Duskmourn
- Concord died with a perfect 69 players holding its Platinum Trophy, but a surprise 70th just came out of nowhere to make it less nice
- Lego Fortnite Klombos: Where to find them
- Hideo Kojima has your next viewing recommendation – and it's a Netflix movie with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- Best Space Marine 2 weapons and tier lists for each class
- Cobra Kai star teases the end of the hit Netflix series: "You can't make everybody happy, but I was happy with the ending"
- The TMNT race across New York in Danny Earls' interlocking, Easter egg-filled cover for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1–4
- Helldivers 2 is buffing the iconic Eagle 500KG Bomb to the level it was "supposed to be" at all along: "Big booms should boom big"
- Netflix announces Castlevania: Nocturne season 2 release window alongside a teaser featuring Alucard in action
- An all-star team of indie devs turned the idea of a retro compilation into "an open-world game," and it's a rare gem that understands one secret joy of retro gaming
- Civilization 7 is "one of the biggest changes" and also "one of the scariest" in the 34-year history of the strategy series
- Rings of Power theory has fans divided over what creature is hiding in Khazad-Dum
- Legendary factory base builder Satisfactory flies past 186K peak Steam players after leaving early access: "Before this week our highest CCU on Steam was 34K"
- Netflix’s new #1 movie is a teen sci-fi fantasy with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score
- Shudder reveals spooky season line-up – including two of 2024's best horror movies
- Marvel vs Capcom 2's return plagued by matchmaking issues - specifically, a single fighting game legend whooping players so hard they refund the game
- Mike Flanagan laments recent scrapping of Hannibal creator's Friday the 13th prequel series that "was onto something terrific"
- A cryptic Instagram post hints that Grant Morrison is finally returning to comics to write one of Image's most acclaimed titles
- Against all odds, Helldivers 2 players only just secure the fan-favorite Orbital Napalm Barrage Stratagem we missed out on earlier this month
- Charming pixel JRPG Bloomtown: A Different Story brings Persona-inspired gameplay to a Stranger Things-like town this month
- M Night Shyamalan reveals he's already working on his next movie and celebrates the success of Trap
- "Lost" Professor Layton game that only released in Japan 16 years ago is getting an unofficial translation after being discovered on an old phone
- Stephen King has big praise for new Netflix original with a great Rotten Tomatoes score
- Mike Flanagan's new movie gets surprise awards win, and it might have just made it a Best Picture frontrunner
- Deltarune dev Toby Fox has "personally completed everything I can" on Chapter 3 and 4 of the RPG: "Now, it's just a matter of time!"
- How to watch Dragon Ball in order (TV shows and movies)
- Shogun has historic Emmys sweep – and Fallout wins only one award
- Dandadan's first three episodes have screened early, and the first reactions make us think it could be a Demon Slayer-level hit
- Beetlejuice 2 breaks box-office records as it's revealed the Tim Burton sequel almost went straight to streaming
- James Gunn has made DC canon even more confusing with this Shazam 2 post-credits reveal 18 months after release
- Agatha All Along shows a very different side to WandaVision's big bad – "I didn't expect it to be so deep"
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a "spiritual successor" to a 32-year-old adventure game, Fate of Atlantis
- Former Bungie lawyer says Sony "inflicting some discipline" may have forced the Destiny 2 studio to "get their heads out of their asses" as the MMO commits to a different kind of roadmap
- One of 2025's first big anime announcements has dropped – and it's the second season of a hit shonen series
- As Splatoon 3 says goodbye to regular updates, fans think they've already uncovered the future of the Nintendo series
- How many episodes are in Agatha All Along season 1 on Disney Plus?
- How many episodes are in The Penguin on Max and NOW?
- September 15
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- Cobra Kai actor says Ralph Macchio is "nervous" to fight Jackie Chan in the new Karate Kid movie: "He still moves like he's a 20-year-old"
- World of Warcraft's tribute character to Final Fantasy 7's Aerith found impaled by a greatsword after The War Within's release
- Flappy Bird's OG creator clarifies he didn't "sell anything" to the blockchain-pushing 'Flappy Bird Foundation' that's reviving the infamous mobile icon: "I also don't support crypto"
- Agatha All Along star Kathryn Hahn says that the show's queerness is "in the bones" of the new Marvel TV series
- Rockstar Games won't know if GTA 6 can hit 2025 yet because GTA 4's delay "was made 4 months before the original release date," says former dev
- 18 years later, No Man's Sky dev reveals prototype footage of the first Harry Potter open-world game - and explains its unlikely link to an iconic FPS
- GTA: Vice City player loses 98-minute run to an "old speedrunning legend," only for an OG Rockstar dev to show up and explain what happened - and why it's not his fault
- I was dubious about a Speak No Evil remake but having seen it, I now want a whole bunch more
- Agatha All Along's Kathryn Hahn and Aubrey Plaza exchanged music and poems ahead of shooting their first "feisty" scene: "All of that coiled energy really worked in our favor"
- September 14
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- It took me 14 hours to 100% the amazing Metroidvania Ender Lilies, and just days later the dev announced that the 35-hour sequel launches in a few months
- Palworld developer clarifies the hit survival game "will remain buy-to-play" and won't pivot to a free live service model
- Indie city-builder's complete overhaul and 50% discount means user reviews have "never been so high"
- Acclaimed post-apocalyptic open-world indie "would have never existed" without Fallout: New Vegas
- Agatha All Along won't get caught up in the debate about Marvel and superhero fatigue, as creator says it's about a group "that don't normally get the spotlight"
- Dragon Age veteran praises Baldur's Gate 3's early access, says he wouldn't return to BioWare because that "was never on the cards for us"
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director loves fan theories about the JRPG's most-bullied dweeb: "Some people think he's actually evil and will turn out to be the last boss"
- Heartstopper star Joe Locke hopes that Agatha All Along is only the start of his Marvel career: "I would come back in a heartbeat"
- Cobra Kai actor and popular One Piece fan-cast says he'd play literally anyone in the Netflix adaptation, even a "background extra" that falls off a boat
- September 13
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- Dragon Age: The Veilguard director says "the first thing" he asked for was a State of Decay-inspired QoL feature that fixes a long-running party chat issue
- Rogue's brat girl summer in the Savage Land returns with a new solo comic flashing back to the time she hooked up with Magneto
- Helldivers 2 dev rates the next patch "a strong 7 or an 8" out of 10 because it's going to be "evolutionary rather than revolutionary"
- The 32 greatest animated TV shows of all time
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 won't "betray the fans of the original" JRPG but there will be new elements that "bring a new happiness"
- Elden Ring randomly buffed the famously overpowered Brass Shield after 2 years, and I have never been so desperate to ask Hidetaka Miyazaki "why"
- Early code from one of the worst Silent Hill games resurfaces with a NSFW rant from a dev seemingly Having A Day: "Why these a**holes are such a**holes?!"
- Kathryn Hahn says she'd "love to" honor Agatha Harkness' comic book origins and team up with the Fantastic Four in a future MCU project
- Gearbox marks 5 years of Borderlands 3 with another loot-packed Shift Code to help tide fans over: "We're excited to have you along for Borderlands 4"
- Outrageously stylish speedrun FPS launches to near-unanimous praise except exactly 1 negative Steam review, which the the devs are already promising a patch to address
- Heartstopper star Joe Locke didn't know the secret identity of his Agatha All Along character until halfway through his six-month audition process
- Turn-based fantasy RPG Arco packs big, branching decisions into a small and stunning not-Western world – now I see what all the fuss was about
- How to get Gene Seeds in Space Marine 2
- Kate Winslet, Andy Samberg, and Alexander Skarsgård talk working on Winslet’s years-in-the-making passion project about one of history's most interesting but forgotten photographers
- Helldivers 2's mega-buff patch also nerfs Rocket Devastators and Gunships: "I'm hiding behind a rock, they blow their load all over me, and then I can move out of cover"
- The Prince of Persia Metroidvania adds a skin from the Prince of Persia roguelike: "Please, stop copying us, people are starting to notice it"
- New RPG from Mass Effect veterans has us fighting climate crisis because ancient planet-terraforming machines that hold everything together are breaking down
- Larian tried again and again to stop them, but Baldur's Gate 3 players keep finding new ways to rob the RPG's vendors blind even after patch 7
- New star-studded crime drama lands Netflix’s second biggest TV launch of the year
- Space Marine 2 proves we're ready to see another side of Warhammer 40K – and I've got the perfect adaptation in mind
- Marvel vs. Capcom 2 has made a long-awaited comeback – here's why that's such a big deal
- As Helldivers 2 prepares an onslaught of buffs to make the game more fun, one dev preps players for the inevitable: "Will there be more nerfs? Of course there will"
- Star Wars: Darth Vader #50 wraps up its record-breaking run with the Dark Lord of the Sith taking on an Imperial rebellion
- Cozy co-op crafting game with Stardew Valley and The Sims vibes obliterates Kickstarter with 8x its funding goals - now there's fishing, a dog, and a character editor
- Palworld CEO says turning the hit survival game into a live-service title would "extend its lifespan," but "the most important thing is whether the players want it"
- Former GTA and Red Dead Redemption lead is teaming up with Immortals of Aveum veterans to form a new studio and work on an action-adventure game
- Mike Flanagan's hit horror Hush is getting the Snyder Cut treatment with new black-and-white, near-silent release: "This is how we originally envisioned the film"
- 2024's best horror movies have been low-budget, smaller releases – and it's all down to the horror community
- Space Marine 2 guide to help you become an Astartes veteran
- Pedro Pascal's new movie has debuted to 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics calling it an instant classic
- Rare PS2 Shin Megami Tensei spin-offs that'll normally cost you over $150 could be coming back as the Persona publisher accidentally uploads Steam achievements
- The Batman is still aiming for a trilogy, according to director Matt Reeves: "It’s sticking very closely to the path we envisioned"
- Assassin's Creed Syndicate 60fps patch might be in the works if Ubisoft was serious about this now-deleted blatant hint
- The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
- Constantine 2 producer confirms script is written but he's too scared to read it: "I want it to be good so bad"
- Knull's creators didn't know the infamous supervillain would feature in Venom: The Last Dance until everybody else did
- Beloved 2010 shooter Singularity returns to Microsoft's storefront, but fans are hoping for a Game Pass or Xbox release: "Are they cooking a port?"
- The Penguin lands a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score that's higher than The Batman
- "Nothing's gonna stop us from getting Wanderstop out the door": Annapurna Interactive partners react to mass resignations, as Remedy says its Control 2 deal is unaffected
- "Looks like we found out who the real joker is": Balatro dev reveals one Joker card has been hiding a revolutionary secret all along, because they "thought it was pretty funny"
- From Avengers: Age of Ultron to WandaVision, here's all you need to watch before Agatha All Along
- Cute and cozy Lord of the Rings life sim Tales of the Shire delayed to early 2025
- September 12
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- All 25 members of Annapurna Interactive reportedly resign following a dispute with the publisher's owner
- The Ghost Rider of WWII teams up with Wolverine, Nick Fury, Bucky Barnes, and more to take on demonic Nazis in Hellhunters
- After levels of cope rivaling the Silksong community, Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero's last-minute reveal of GT characters has fans over the moon: "I’m so happy I was wrong"
- How Venom 3's big villain Knull could open the door for Eddie Brock to appear in Avengers: Secret Wars
- Tony Hawk is working with Activision on a new project that "fans will truly appreciate"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows dev says the open-world game aims to be "respectful as possible to Japanese culture, but creative choices are made on our side"
- A year later, Unity cancels its controversial Runtime Fee "effective immediately"
- 10 years after Flappy Bird's creator declared "I cannot take this anymore," the "Flappy Bird Foundation" has bizarrely snatched the rights to bring the game back to life
- The Penguin first reactions call it a "near-perfect mobster story" and a "spiritual sequel to The Sopranos"
- The MCU's founding chairman is launching a new shared universe for comics, film, and gaming
- All Space Marine 2 enemy types for Tyranids and Thousand Sons
- Speak No Evil's writer-director and star James McAvoy break down the horror remake's surprise ending: "Everyone comes out scarred"
- First trailer for Zack Snyder's new Netflix series teases a bloody, brutal revenge mission against the gods
- First trailer for new Stephen King adaptation Salem's Lot is a mix between Midnight Mass and 30 Days of Night
- First trailer for Dexter prequel teases how a serial killer is made – and the show finally gets a release date
- As cheating in Deadlock rears its head, Valve goes, yeah, maybe anti-cheat for its new hero shooter is a good idea
- From Maya to Rome, Firaxis reveals Civilization 7's first six civs and there are "many more still to come"
- Everything in the Helldivers 2 Chemical Agents Warbond
- Astro Bot director hopes the game's endless cameos inspire "younger generations" to seek out the classics
- The Penguin review: "Features one of the best performances in Batman’s on-screen history"
- How Assassin's Creed Shadows is using changing seasons and dynamic weather to be the series' "most advanced" game yet
- "He's the biggest Batman that we've ever seen." Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta on making the Dark Knight an underdog in Absolute Batman
- Who needs the upgraded storage of the PS5 Pro with SSD deals like this?
- Helldivers 2's most-popular shotgun is finally getting a buff, reverting the Breaker to what it was at launch
- New Helldivers 2 Warbond adds loads of dangerous toys to let you become a professional Terminid exterminator or even a democratic medic
- Planet Coaster 2 is my childhood dream come true, now with wild water parks and better management tools than ever before
- The Darkchylde returns as Magik takes the spotlight in her first ever ongoing title
- Hellboy: The Crooked Man review – "The closest big-screen version yet to the comics"
- The Rings of Power showrunner is "happy" for people to hate-watch and make YouTube videos about season 2: "It wouldn’t be a journey through Middle-earth without some trolls along the way"
- Final Venom 3 trailer introduces one of the most powerful villains in Marvel history and debunks lingering MCU theories
- Three students made the Superman game no one else has quite been able to, and it's now on PS5 as the team gears up for a full-fat sequel
- Transformers One review: "A cut above most of its predecessors"
- I wasn't expecting this to be my favorite Disney Halloween merch, and it's now $21 less
- SK Hynix Platinum P41 & Haechi Heatsink review: "The read speed was higher than advertised"
- The OLED monitor I’m dying to use with PS5 Pro is back down to its lowest-ever price
- In the latest Rings of Power episode, Mirdania's vision in the unseen world is darker than you think
- PS5 is saying goodbye to its US-only Explore tab and hello to the 'welcome hub,' a customizable home screen addition that'll soon roll out worldwide
- Nightingale boss Aaryn Flynn opens up on the game's challenges and massive new update: "Everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the face"
- The Rings of Power season 3 has reportedly been in the works for months, although it hasn’t been greenlit
- Is it just me, or are belated sequels rarely worth the wait?
- Genius Sims 4 modder does what fans "always wanted" EA to do, transforming the game's forsaken PlantSims entirely
- 100 days out from Sonic 3, the lead artist on the character’s redesign says the team has "elevated their game on every level"
- Pico 4 Ultra review: “The Quest 3 competitor the industry needs”
- Microsoft is reportedly laying off a further 650 people from its gaming staff, 7 months after cutting 1,900 roles across ZeniMax, Xbox, and Activision Blizzard
- Mike Flanagan knew after just four days of filming that his new Stephen King adaptation would be his best movie
- A classic Steve McQueen heist movie is getting a(nother) remake directed by Black Panther star
- Lego Star Wars writers on finally bringing Darth Jar Jar to life 10 years after a 2,500-word essay 'proving' his existence broke Reddit: "Everyone was game for exactly what we wanted to do here"
- After arguing against super long games, Super Smash Bros' creator Masahiro Sakurai praises the "great" Astro Bot because it "doesn't take that much time"
- Indie dev thought his horror game that turns Stardew Valley on its head would earn 100k Steam wishlists in a year, but cleared it in 22 days: "I'm absolutely floored"
- The Borderlands movie limps out of theaters with a reported $115 million loss after a run of just $30 million
- Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin calls out cancelation of a beloved and underrated Amazon show: "It deserved more than eight episodes"
- Stellar Crown sets up the next era of the Pokemon TCG beautifully
- The PS5 Pro is an impressive, expensive mid-gen refresh that feels less essential than the PS4 Pro did in 2016
- Tech expert says GTA 6 likely won't run at 60fps on the PS5 Pro, even if it'll probably have "higher quality visuals"
- 11 years after ditching friend requests, Xbox Series X|S gets one of Xbox 360's most convenient social features
- Speak No Evil director reveals why he gave James McAvoy's "toxic" antagonist a tragic backstory: "If they're just mustache-twirling villains, it's boring"
- The Rings of Power season 2 episode 5 recap and Easter eggs: Annatar’s deception grows deeper
- The Rings of Power introduces Celebrimbor's new creation – and it will be familiar to fans of The Fellowship of the Ring
- Wild Bastards review: "A forgettable experience with conflicting design choices that compromise an otherwise intriguing premise"
- Why the nine rings for men spell doom in The Rings of Power: the Nazghûl explained
- What is lurking in Khazad-dum in The Rings of Power season 2, episode 5? What Disa saw explained
- Speak No Evil's James McAvoy "channeled a friend" in one of the horror remake's most unpredictable scenes
- As Astro Bot threatens world domination, PlayStation CEO says the series is "very, very important" as Sony aims to focus on "the family market"
- September 11
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- Steam says you officially only get one family per year as its new game sharing feature leaves beta
- FC 25 ratings list sees Kylian Mbappe and Rodri on top
- 24 years after GTA 3 ditched Dreamcast for PS2, fans are building the "impossible" port, and the original devs have noticed: "These guys are actually doing it"
- The new Wolverine #1 explained: What Wolverine's new villain means for his Adamantium skeleton
- Super Smash Bros owns the platform fighter scene, so this indie has a new angle: 40-player "Smash battle royale," an idea so wild "we might not actually ship it"
- This Destiny 2 fix is an all-timer: a gun designed to kill Barrier Champions was dealing 40% less damage to barriers and "not correctly" getting a 67% damage bonus
- Astarion actor's Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough finally makes it to the RPG's wildest sex scene: "Oops I did a bad thing"
- New trailer for Netflix's next big anime is a wild trip into the paranormal full of spooky fun
- Helldivers 2 devs weren't kidding about huge buffs coming this month – the Railgun is about to utterly destroy large enemies: "We kind of quadrupled that"
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard reveals a clever little solution to every RPG's companion problem
- Dynamite's new The Terminator comic takes James Cameron's killer robot saga back to its terrifying "pulp noir" roots
- Space Marine 2 boss and former id Software CEO reckon the Warhammer hit is "the fastest selling game we’ve ever worked on, including all the Quake, Doom, Wolfenstein, and Rage games"
- Andy Samberg says he had to "unlearn his instincts" for his first dramatic role as a war photographer in Lee
- As Microsoft rolls out a cheaper Xbox Game Pass, it says day-one games might not come to the new Standard version for "12 months or more" – if they do at all
- The 32 greatest '80s sci-fi movies
- Dragon Age and Mass Effect veteran says he looked at Palworld to reverse the fortunes of his survival game
- Ridley Scott says he thought the Alien franchise was done after Resurrection: "I thought the old beast had worn out"
- 2 years later, Elden Ring players dig out their 'I beat Radahn before the nerf' stickers as early runs show FromSoftware really took a bat to Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss
- Helldivers 2 creative director says "the balance/realism can suck it" for one bug that's probably not "worth fixing due to how hilarious it is"
- All Space Marine 2 difficulties explained, from Minimal to Lethal
- Neil Gaiman offers to take a step back from Good Omens season 3 as the Amazon show halts production
- You definitely missed this obscure reference to Hugh Jackman's Les Mis character in Deadpool and Wolverine
- Forget the final boss nerf, the new Elden Ring DLC patch just made a garbage talisman a must-have for some weapons and even buffed my favorite swords and spells
- This MTG Duskmourn card offers the perfect horror combo, and you can see it first here
- Despite PS5 Pro's enormous $700 price tag, the separate disc drive is already selling out all over the place
- Exclusive: The Discworld RPG gleefully ignores "modifiers to dice, and anything crunchy" in favor of puns
- Speak No Evil may be a lot "less explicit" than the original horror movie, but it's still "horrific"
- Final Fantasy 14 fan soloing the MMO like it's RuneScape's Ironman mode finally finishes a 12-week boss grind thanks to a 6-week grind for 1 healing spell
- Sony immediately makes the PS5 Pro feel even more expensive with refurbished PS5s that are $350 cheaper
- VFX pro says the Minecraft movie "will get better," but it looks like that for a reason, and it'll be "expensive" to fix
- Surprise! Xbox's new Game Pass Standard loses games previously used to sell the service like Starfield and Diablo 4
- Chip Zdarsky and David Brothers' new sci-fi thriller is an epic time-traveling romance comic with real heart
- After its surprise movie success, one of the very best '90s anime shows is now on Netflix
- Space Marine 2 Operations missions and co-op explained
- The Witcher 3's best ending gets 2 new scenes as modder restores what feels like part of the setup for The Witcher 4
- Lae'zel's new "evil" ending in Baldur's Gate 3 isn't actually evil – it's her best possible outcome
- PS5 Pro's $700 price tag is basically a bargain in Japan and Europe, as Sony's exchange rates raise plenty of eyebrows
- Dune: Prophecy star teases her character and says that the sci-fi series "isn't like Star Wars"
- Lee review: "Kate Winslet is wonderful but this wartime biopic needs less pathos and more punch"
- Speak No Evil remake currently has a higher Rotten Tomatoes score than the original
- Why Star Wars Outlaws is the most authentic Star Wars sequel since Rogue One
- Helldivers 2 dev admits "there's been a disconnect" between Arrowhead and "what players want": "We want to make the game more fun"
- John Cena explains why Peacemaker season 2 is taking so long to release
- A creepy, unnamed horror movie trailer has just found(footaged) its way online – and genre fans are convinced they know what it's teasing
- Next Lorcana set feels like a tribute to the most underrated Disney movie
- HP Omen 17 review: “gets the job done”
- Skyrim players panic as Bethesda releases suspicious patch for a version of the RPG that you can hardly even buy anymore
- New DC chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran liked this Superman documentary so much they gave it a theatrical release
- Space Marine 2 roadmap and what to expect in future updates
- Production has begun on season two of one of the year's best Netflix anime shows
- Elden Ring patch 1.14 hits Shadow of the Erdtree's brutal final boss with nerfs that leave some attacks doing less damage
- Lord of the Rings inspired Dune director Denis Villeneuve to stay true to his movie's source material
- Stardew Valley fan creates Lego mock-up of the farming sim's map that's so impressive even ConcernedApe can't help but stop by to celebrate it
- Dune 3 will be Denis Villeneuve's last Dune movie – but he hopes the franchise continues after him
- A Palworld PS5 announcement seems inevitable as the hit survival game's apparent PlayStation port leaks ahead of Tokyo Game Show
- Star Wars Outlaws' "challenging stealth moments" have been improved, days after its creative director promised a fix for a particularly "punishing" and "unfair" section
- Five Nights at Freddy's sequel gets an exact filming date, and it's right before Halloween
- Konami knows the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection had a "pretty rough launch" and is doing everything it can "not to repeat that" in Vol. 2
- September 10
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- Where to buy a PS5 Pro in Australia: Here's where to grab one right now
- Cable and Bishop team-up for a mission to save all mutantkind in a one-shot which will also foretell the future of Marvel Comics
- Batman: The Last Halloween writer Jeph Loeb explains the story's connection to the Penguin TV show, and why this really is the "last" Batman Halloween story he wants to tell
- Former Blizzard boss says the $700 PS5 Pro is really more like a $350 upgrade because it's aimed at people who can trade in their PS5s at "places like GameStop"
- Diablo 4 may have peaked because players are now dealing literally infinite damage on the PTR server, and by players obviously I mean a Whirlwind Barbarian
- Indie dev horrified to realize their protagonist is coded as Lois Griffin from Family Guy: "Nobody told me ... I worked 3 years on this game"
- After 350,000 signatures in an EU consumer rights campaign, Ubisoft is adding offline modes to The Crew games - but not the now-dead original
- Gandalf actor Ian McKellen says the Lord of the Rings: Gollum movie script is coming "in the new year" and he'll "judge" whether to return then
- Bethesda's new Fallout Shelter-like Elder Scrolls game launches today, for real this time, nearly a year after we played it at the first launch
- Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse producer responds to rumors that the movie is struggling: "Nothing has been scrapped"
- PS5 mastermind Mark Cerny says "dreams of the developers" are too big for 60 FPS, and PS5 Pro targets "removing that decision" between fidelity and performance
- The Metal Gear Solid 3 remake is "already playable" from start to finish, so the release date is "not going to be years and years" away
- New Spider-Man animated series gets a prequel comic from a longtime Spider-Man writer who also worked on the Playstation games
- The coolest part of the PS5 Pro is PlayStation doubling down on one of PC gaming's best FPS boosters with PSSR
- PS5 Pro's $700 price tag wouldn't be so tough to swallow if it weren't missing the most basic feature of all: a disc drive
- The PS5 Pro might finally kill off performance mode, and the PC player in me is ecstatic
- Metal Gear Solid Delta dev says they wanted it to be "almost too faithful" and explain why it's not called "a Hideo Kojima game"
- In Date Everything I gave my financial records to a dishwasher, flirted with a ship in a bottle, and had the time of my life
- Genshin Impact McDonald's collab explained – How to get the exclusive Primogems, glider, and more
- Sony brags about PS5 Pro capabilities by comparing The Last of Us Part 2, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, and Ratchet & Clank running on regular ol' PS5s
- The PS3 is still Sony's most expensive console adjusted for inflation, but unlike the $700 PS5 Pro it didn't charge $110 extra for a disc drive and stand
- PS5 Pro is Sony's "most powerful console," and comes "close to doubling the power" of its predecessor
- Helldivers 2 devs are rolling back some of Escalation of Freedom's controversial Flamethrower changes and buffing damage by 33%, putting bug barbequing back on the menu
- PS5 Pro enhanced games list: all the confirmed PS5 Pro enhanced titles to play today
- After pleading guilty to tax evasion and eating a $70,000 fine, the Apothecary Diaries manga's Nekokurage confirms she will remain the artist on the hit series
- Sony says the $700 PS5 Pro "may" stabilize or improve performance of over 8,500 backward compatible PS4 games, while 40+ PS5 games will get Pro patches in November
- Terrifier 3 unveils its horrific popcorn bucket and it's just as creepy as we had hoped
- PS5 vs PS5 Pro specs compared: how does the next console match up?
- Dying Light: The Beast wants to be "the ultimate zombie adventure", and it only exists because Techland's DLC plans leaked
- New HBO comedy from The Thick of It creator and James Bond director sees a superhero movie set in chaos in hilarious first trailer
- How have D&D classes changed for the 2024 Player's Handbook?
- How to get Space Marine 2 Requisition Points
- The PS5 Pro is launching this November for the low, low price of $700
- The first trailer for a new Netflix action-thriller produced by Oldboy director Park Chan-wook sees two best friends become mortal enemies
- Super Smash Bros' Masahiro Sakurai says "I'm so sorry" to players who spent "hundreds or even thousands of hours" in his fighting game
- As his adventure game returns after 40 years, JRPG icon and Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii ponders making another: "It would be fun to investigate a murder case while interacting with AI"
- Planetary co-creator and Astonishing X-Men artist John Cassaday has died at 52
- How MTG Duskmourn captures the '80s horror vibe
- First trailer for a straight-to-streaming horror movie has hit the internet – and fans are comparing it to Bird Box and A Quiet Place
- While everyone is busy killing Tyranids in Space Marine 2, I’m bringing the stink as Nurgle’s number one Bulwark in PVP
- Stalker 2 isn't published by Microsoft, but the company has still been "so supportive" to its devs: "It would have been much different without them"
- Final Fantasy 14's resident controller modder is turning the MMO into a Bob Ross simulator with a paintbrush controller for the new Pictomancer job
- New space RPG from Mass Effect veterans has choices that impact you, your home world, your character progression, and your "loved ones"
- Dragon Ball Daima release date, trailer, and everything we know so far
- Marvel star Sebastian Stan becomes Donald Trump in first trailer for new drama from The Last of Us director
- Yars Rising review: "A Metroidvania that's competent in every way, but it's all too forgettable"
- Glorious GMMK 3 review: “can be anything you need it to be”
- Harry Potter HBO show begins looking for its Harry, Ron, and Hermione as open casting call says it's committed to "inclusive, diverse casting"
- Astro Bot DLC: Everything we know so far about future updates
- Towerborne review: "A satisfying gameplay loop about gear, gear, and more gear"
- Smile 2 director teases that while the first movie explained the curse, the sequel will move in a surprising direction: "Now that the audience is familiar, it allows this new context"
- One of Marvel’s most underrated shows is now available to stream for free
- Good Omens season 3 has paused production
- Speak No Evil writer-director opens up on his White Lotus-inspired horror remake, and how it's the culmination of a 16-year conversation with Blumhouse
- Spider-Verse composer shuts down rumors that Beyond the Spider-Verse is struggling and won't release until 2027
- The roguelike that was Balatro's "largest influence" has had its own "minor sales spike" thanks to the hit indie's upcoming mobile release
- Final Fantasy 14 devs just went ahead with their FF9 homage because otherwise they would have been "waiting and waiting" for the rumored JRPG remake to show up
- The PS5 Pro specs leaked months ago, pointing to faster system memory for the console upgrade
- The Samsung mini LED TV I’ve been testing is the next best thing to OLED, and it’s down to a record-low price
- Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has written "new pages" of Winds of Winter, but admits "I would have liked to have turned out a lot more"
- Colin Farrell talks the possibility of The Penguin season 2
- Amid Astro Bot hype, Psychonauts studio shoots down speculation that it's reviving dormant Xbox platformers like Crash or Banjo: "We want to make our games"
- Spider-Man 4 finally swings into action, as Marvel enters "early talks" with the director of one of the MCU's best recent movies
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 won't offer early access to its campaign mode, breaking a new trend set by the latest Modern Warfare games
- Star Wars’ Mark Hamill pays perfect tribute to his on-screen dad James Earl Jones
- After 27 years as a cult classic, crafting JRPG series Atelier shoots for global appeal with a seamless open-world, "action-like" combat, and a series-first housing system
- September 9
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- Speak No Evil review: "A horror remake that honors the original while serving up some brutal surprises"
- Tiny Tina's Wonderlands and Diablo 4 support studio lays off 139 out of 200 workers as Embracer Group fallout continues
- Star Wars and Lion King actor James Earl Jones dies at 93
- The fantasy MMO that un-MMOed itself after the devs bought the rights back is relaunching as a co-op RPG with D&D show Critical Role on board
- Destiny 2 is experimenting with Metroidvania and roguelike DNA as Bungie admits "Destiny is too complex" and "you practically need a PhD to decide what to play"
- Beetlejuice 2 and Wednesday creators are making a horror movie about a supernatural ice cream man
- Nobody tell Mark Cerny but PlayStation just leaked a video titled PS5 Pro ahead of its fancy "technical presentation"
- The Flash's Supergirl Sasha Calle gives advice to new DCU Supergirl Milly Alcock: "Have so much fun"
- On the heels of Concord's flop, PlayStation rolls out an official survey gauging players on its biggest live service win: Helldivers 2
- There’s some dark foreshadowing in The Rings of Power that you probably missed – and it might be a callback to a gruesome scene from The Lord of the Rings
- Minecraft retires its controversial mob vote and completely revamps how it does updates: "We know that you want new Minecraft content more often"
- Marvel celebrates the long-awaited re-release of Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 by putting its iconic art on variant covers for Iron Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Spider-Man, and more
- Paul Mescal gets bloody in exclusive Gladiator 2 image, as Ridley Scott explains why going back to Rome in the sequel was a dealbreaker
- PS5 Pro announcement stream - when the PS5 Technical Presentation starts and how to watch it
- After 16 years, the OG indie roguelike Spelunky has just hit its final form with an official demake for a 42-year-old 8-bit gaming machine
- The Batman director Matt Reeves says they discussed having Robert Pattinson in The Penguin, but ultimately turned it down
- 10 years later, Bungie is actually doing it: famously game-breaking Exotic sniper Ice Breaker is coming to Destiny 2 in the next dungeon
- Bungie confirms Destiny 2 is done with annual expansions and Episodes – now the MMO will get 2 "medium-sized" expansions plus 4 free updates a year
- Elizabeth Olsen gets candid about Marvel’s post-WandaVision treatment of Scarlet Witch: "I think people didn’t know what to do with me for a second there…"
- First look at Sex Education star as the villain in new historical epic William Tell
- The Borderlands movie might have forgotten about this fan-favorite character, but a new Borderlands 3 mod puts them front and center
- Someone made a shot-for-shot animated remake of the Minecraft movie trailer and it’s the cutest thing you’ll see all day
- Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred is bringing back the series-favorite mercenary system to cover the "soft spot" that Blizzard says exists in each and every class build
- Reactions to Amy Adams' bizarre movie where she turns into a dog say it's "so much better than the trailer would have you believe"
- All eyes turn to PS5 Pro as Sony surprise announces an imminent "PlayStation 5 Technical Presentation"
- Former Resident Evil developers reveal new studio, teasing PC and Nintendo Switch release of their debut game, which couldn't look less like Resident Evil if it tried
- The Penguin star talks bringing comic book villain The Hangman to life in The Batman spin-off show
- Netflix's new #1 movie is an action thriller with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- DuckTales writer Brandon Montclare on exploring Duckburg and why the new comic is Uncle Scrooge's story
- Star Wars Outlaws didn't have the Red Dead Redemption-style depth I was looking for, but it's a huge improvement over Ubisoft's traditional open worlds
- Where to find all three Dude Raiding egg artefacts in Astro Bot
- First reviews for Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh's R-rated romance say the two leads have "charm in abundance"
- Days Gone studio celebrates its cameo in “masterpiece” platformer Astro Bot, but one former developer says it’s a sad “way to protect your legacy”
- Baldur's Gate 3's speedrunning war reignites as former record holder returns to set the RPG's new Any% world record - and announces she's coming for her other titles too
- The 33 greatest Fast & Furious moments
- The Mobile Gaming Show launches this September with exclusive reveals, trailers, developer interviews, and more
- Colin Farrell is ready to rule Gotham in these exclusive new images from The Penguin
- How to get Armory Data in Space Marine 2 and how to use it
- One of the best Netflix movies of the year with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score is a bittersweet exploration of grief
- Another Marvel star has admitted to having no idea Robert Downey Jr. would be back as Doctor Doom: "What the f***?"
- Hugh Grant's new horror movie gets rave first reactions saying the star's performance is "one of the best of his career"
- Episode Aigis proves that Persona 3 Reload could’ve been bigger
- The Baldur's Gate 3 mod that lets you add every companion to your party is about to get even more chaotic
- Orlando Bloom has spoken to Andy Serkis about a potential Lord of the Rings return as Legolas, and it sounds like AI could be involved
- Just 69 players earned Concord's Platinum before the doomed shooter could be taken offline, according to a leading tracking site
- Turns out the Acer Nitro Blaze 7 already exists, but I’m not mad about it
- Astro Bot devs follow up a strong launch with free DLC teases including more VIP bots to rescue and speedrun levels
- The Rings of Power showrunners are choosing to "remain silent" on a Lord of the Rings mystery that has gone unanswered for 90 years
- James Gunn announces late 2025 release date for Peacemaker season 2 as it will "follow" the events of Superman
- Astro Bot devs ditched an "expansive" open-world game because a "two-course meal" beats eating "a lot of food at a buffet"
- Dune 3 gets a positive update as director Denis Villeneuve confirms work has started on the script
- New Valve shooter Deadlock is still in invite-only alpha, but it's already got "very blatant" cheaters
- Baldur's Gate 3 fans unlock forbidden D&D-style modding allowing for "level editing, save editing, and more" that Larian felt it "wouldn't be able to support"
- Renowned truth teller Andrew Garfield shuts down Spider-Man 4 rumors but offers a glimmer of hope: "You can always find another story to tell"
- Mike Flanagan’s new horror movie called "one of the all-time great Stephen King’s adaptations" as it lands a strong Rotten Tomatoes score
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom almost had a different name, but Nintendo was worried it was a massive spoiler
- Speak No Evil's James McAvoy says he's "never seen the problem" with remaking films: "Great stories can be told again and again"
- Speak No Evil's James McAvoy is "glad" he didn't watch the original before signing up to the horror remake: "I don't know if I'd have taken the role"
- September 8
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- 2023's most slept-on RPG finally hits consoles, and at $5 million in sales it's a big win for a cute series that's quietly been ticking along for nearly 10 years
- GTA 6 music deal blasted as "utterly unacceptable" by musician who says his band was offered just $7,500 each by Rockstar, despite GTA 5's $8.5 billion revenue
- Resident Evil and Dead Space writer's cyberpunk Metroidvania RPG has already doubled its Kickstarter goal with romance "echoing the depth" of Mass Effect
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle overcomes God of War Ragnarok's overeager tip-giver issue with a simple camera trick
- Astro Bot credits hint at missing Assassin's Creed, Stellar Blade, Worms, and Rayman cameos that might come as DLC
- World of Warcraft veteran says MMO power leveling is a "mistake": "Getting to level cap should be an accomplishment, not a blip"
- September 7
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- 20 years of MMO history comes full circle as Old School RuneScape reveals official "community servers" that give players "full control over gameplay modifiers"
- Cozy shop management RPG "inspired by Kiki's Delivery Service, Persona 5, and Paris" is absolutely killing it on Kickstarter
- Blizzard's cancelled survival game Odyssey resurfaces in alleged leaks showing its fairytale "new universe"
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle devs put a focus on the "danger level" of using guns because "Indy doesn't have superpowers"
- Baldur's Gate 3's official mod support prompts over "a million mods installed in less than 24 hours," from new races to fresh XP cheats
- The best Black Ops 6 SVD sniper build and loadout
- "Thank you team, we made something awesome" - Concord developers mourn the failed FPS that PlayStation pulled the plug on after just 14 days
- The best Ames 85 loadout for Black Ops 6
- The best C9 build for Black Ops 6
- Indiana Jones and The Great Circle devs say getting the fist-fighting right is "really hard" because the "bar has been raised considerably" in the last 20 years
- Star Wars Outlaws director agrees the early instant-fail stealth missions are "incredibly punishing," and Ubisoft is easing the pain with a patch coming "maybe in 10 days"
- I never thought Astro Bot would dethrone Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth as my GOTY, but then I found out it has the JRPG's legendary main protagonist turned cute
- September 6
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- As Astro Bot emerges as a 2024 GOTY frontrunner, its director says "12 to 15 hours of condensed fun" beats 40 hours with parts "you feel like skipping"
- A surprise Netflix true-crime documentary beat out The Rings of Power as the week’s most-watched show
- It's official: "Concord servers are now offline," just 2 weeks after one of the worst launches in recent memory
- There's another incredibly niche musical Lord of the Rings Easter egg in the latest episode of The Rings of Power
- At a rough time for Destiny 2, Bungie says it will reveal more of the MMO's next chapter, Codename Frontiers, next week – but 10th anniversary plans are "light"
- Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi can't stay away, says he's taking back his retirement plans because making games "may be more of a pleasure than a job"
- 40 years after their first movie, the Ewoks are starring in their own Star Wars comic again
- Director of critically panned game adaptions clowns on Borderlands movie's $90m flop, only to cancel his next game adaption after crowdfunding just $850
- Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 7 doesn't change one bard's grisly fate, but I'm glad she's dead
- Harry Potter Quidditch Champions review: "A fun yet forgettable nostalgia play"
- The Rings of Power doesn't need to stick to canon, it honors Tolkien by expanding it
- Best streaming mixers in 2024: Master your live audio like a pro
- The actor behind one of Game of Thrones' most brutal deaths says she was "frustrated" with the scene: "I wanted more"
- Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth dev says minigame with half-naked "sickos" solved a development problem, even if its producers were like "what the hell is this?"
- Larian reminds Baldur's Gate 3 fans that Patch 7 isn't the RPG's final update, but it's not saying anything else yet: "The chefs must cook"
- Terrifier 3's marketing budget gets stretched by a new tactic: Art the Clown randomly sends fans a hilariously low amount of money
- I can't believe a new Famicom Detective Club is what finally got me excited for the Switch 2, but here we are
- Where to find all eight Bot of War ravens in Astro Bot
- Beetlejuice 3? After watching the new sequel I'd rather see a spin-off for its best new character
- After Patch 7, Baldur's Gate 3 player finds new "impossible" evil ending that Larian cut from the RPG, where your Tav gets sick of it all and "peaces out" at the big finale
- I went hands-on with Acer's new handheld gaming PC, and these were my three favorite things about it
- Stephen King gives his verdict on Mike Flanagan’s new adaptation starring Tom Hiddleston: "Maybe not what you’d expect from me"
- First teaser for Blumhouse's new Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man gives the classic tale an Amityville Horror twist
- Return to Gotham City with The Penguin issue of Total Film
- How to watch Bleach in order (TV show and movies)
- This cozy Stardew Valley-like farming sim with Sailor Moon vibes only released a month ago, but fans have already racked up over 4 million hours in-game
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle devs believe that a "properly characterized villain" is what "makes the hero shine"
- Everyone’s favorite heist series is back as Ocean's 14 is a go with Brad Pitt and George Clooney
- How to customize your characters in Space Marine 2
- A Minecraft Movie trailer reminds everyone of the games' most evil moment: "Kids cried on Christmas day that we killed the pig"
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard creative director thinks there'll come a point in the games industry "where we can't make graphics better," so the focus will be on giving players "freedom" instead
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's difficulty initially raised some concerns, but it was ultimately such a hit that Yoshi-P wants to continue moving in that direction
- This dating sim about playing cupid in a haunted house as a cute little ghost has stolen my heart as well as my left sock
- The 32 greatest movie cameos
- The Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan hopes his new Exorcist sequel is "the scariest movie I've ever made"
- New horror movie sees Rings of Power star Morfydd Clark return to playing "freaky weirdos", and she couldn’t be happier about it
- I hope the cars in Mafia: The Old Country are so slow they go backwards
- Deadpool and Wolverine director Shawn Levy would often call for "fresh lube on Hugh" on set, but it's not as weird as it sounds
- How to use Astro Bot Photo Spots and Strike A Pose!
- Slow Horses season 5 is "everything I hoped for and more" teases star, also revealing that it will have a bigger focus on his fan-favorite character
- Tears of the Kingdom could've featured a far more chaotic Fuse ability, but Nintendo cut it before the open-world Legend of Zelda sequel's launch
- Trailer for Adult Swim's new horror anime is just as chilling and terrifying as you'd expect from a Junji Ito manga
- Slow Horses star teases Lord of the Rings' Hugo Weaving's "scary" villain in season 4 of the Apple spy show: "That’s not the elf I know"
- Astro Bot director wanted to fill a gap missing since PlayStation Studios "went from making cartoon games" to "mature, hyper-realistic games"
- A Minecraft Movie release date, trailer, cast, and more news
- Warcry: Briar and Bone review – "the factions are getting weird!"
- Nope star to headline remake of one of Tom Hanks's best movies
- Resident Evil creator thought the studio he helped form "would be safe as long as they continued to make Hi-Fi Rush games," but Microsoft shut it down anyway
- "Someone will find a way": Baldur's Gate 3 fans are determined to change a certain bard's fate as Larian reminds them "there is only death" surrounding the Dark Urge
- Before even leaving early access, Space Marine 2 is already the biggest Steam debut for its developer and publisher
- Parts of Joker: Folie a Deux's script was torn up during filming and rewritten "on a napkin"
- Will there be a Beetlejuice 3? Here's how Tim Burton's latest sets up a potential sequel
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice post-credits scene: Does the sequel have a post-credits scene?
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice ending explained: What happens to Betelgeuse, what's with Lydia's dream, and all your questions answered
- Helldivers 2's explosive Orbital Napalm Barrage stratagem is a hit, and players are already dreading the moment it's taken from them
- Deadlock players find new in-progress hero Slork, some sort of shark man who chomps people and resembles a Dota 2 hero, and I already know he's my main
- September 5
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- Report: Concord is still going to be part of Amazon's new anthology TV show Secret Level despite its abrupt cancellation
- Ultimates #4 reveals the tragic secret of how Ultimate Reed Richards became Doom and why there's no Ultimate Fantastic Four - yet
- PS5 Pro design seemingly sneaks its way onto PlayStation website as Sony celebrates 30 years and teases "announcements in the near future"
- Star Wars #50 ends the current era of Marvel's Star Wars comics with a confrontation between Luke Skywalker and Ben Solo
- Valve cuts off Deadlock stat tracking and the community understands why: "This game is in beta and they clearly aren’t ready for stats sites yet"
- The first Astro Bot impressions suggest that PlayStation finally has a game that can challenge Mario's platforming crown
- James Gunn’s rebooted DC universe begins with "extraordinarily fun" Creature Commandos, but says that "humongous epic" Superman is the "true start of everything"
- Yakuza has seen "a large increase in new fans, including women", but the JRPG series will continue being about "middle-aged guy things"
- Modder makes their own Borderlands 4 by playing 4 Borderlands games at the same time on one controller: "After streaming it I'm finding out this was a bad idea"
- James Gunn has an intriguing Marvel comparison for the first project in his DC reboot: "Creature Commandos is kind of like Guardians of the Galaxy without the sentimentality"
- Data's evil brother conquers reality in Star Trek: Lore War
- All Space Marine 2 classes explained and the best ones to use
- Forget PS5 Pro, PlayStation's console design team is now making wooden blocks with an absurd $80 price tag
- Lord of the Rings, Borderlands, Tomb Raider, and an excellent roguelike all feature in a packed Amazon Prime Gaming month
- Elizabeth Olsen and Carrie Coon explain how their new Netflix movie's "great sense of humor" makes grief feel more honest
- Disney renews hit murder mystery show for season 5 but everyone is making the same joke
- Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions players are begging their teammates to actually stop the enemy Seeker from grabbing the Snitch, even if it's not as crucial as it once was
- A USB version of Shure's most iconic microphone is here, and it's under $160
- The Sims 4's spooktacular Life and Death expansion pack is real, but it's not the only exciting new content coming to EA's life sim
- After Randy Orton's failed Deadpool audition, another big WWE superstar reveals they were cast as a Black Panther 2 villain but it "got taken away"
- The making of the accessible Xbox Adaptive Joystick and thumbstick toppers: "Any decision we have to make, we make the decision that creates more flexibility"
- His Three Daughters review: "Natasha Lyonne is the MVP of this stealth weepie"
- After selling 18 million copies to players with an average 27-hour playtime, Black Myth: Wukong is still on track to outpace Elden Ring and Hogwarts Legacy
- The PS2-era platformer is reborn with Akimbot and its mind-boggling array of colorful weapons
- There’s one small detail in the latest episode of The Rings of Power that could reveal the Stranger’s identity
- New Wicked trailer teases romance, schemes, and doomed friendship as Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo form an unlikely bond
- Balatro's solo dev says "I'm sorry" as their hit indie roguelike prepares to launch on mobile this month, "productivity be damned"
- Take-Two shuts down $2 PS4 game that ripped off GTA Vice City's most infuriating mission, but somehow misses the accompanying $5 bundle that includes 10 knock-off anime avatars
- As Fallout: New Vegas horse modder gets seal of approval from an OG dev, he says he's "constantly" comparing his work to Red Dead Redemption 2
- Anbernic RG Cube review: “I’ve completely fallen for this weird little handheld”
- Acer has answered an age-old PC gaming question with its latest concept laptop
- PlayStation platformer Astro Bot dethrones Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth as the highest-rated game of 2024 so far
- One of Amazon’s best action-thrillers is getting a spin-off series
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2's custom PlayStation 5 looks bulky enough to crush real life Tyranids
- Doomsday: Last Survivors teams up with Metal Slug 3 to turn back the undead
- How long is Astro Bot?
- Astro Bot review: "Soars above and beyond to serve up a near-perfect platformer"
- Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 7 is out now on PC, with truly colossal 18,000-word patch notes introducing full mod support, new evil endings, and even harder Honour Mode fights
- Skyrim's Todd Howard was the "instigator of our major plot device" in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and loves the series so much that he's been "an invaluable source of feedback"
- Beginner's guide to collecting Space Marines in Warhammer 40K
- How does Space Marine 2 crossplay work?
- Helldivers 2 devs outline the first patch of their 60-day action plan, committing to sweeping armor overhauls and major nerfs to both Bugs and Bots
- Final Fantasy creator says returning to Square Enix after 20 years "was like returning to your home in the countryside, this old home that your parents always had"
- Star Wars Outlaws devs say they're "pushing a lot" of fixes for the open-world game: "We don't want to let it go"
- The Black Ops 6 beta has turned me into a knee-shooting menace, and now I can't go back to Modern Warfare 3
- Spider-Man star Tom Holland is doing a "secret shoot" and Marvel fans are busy figuring out what it could mean
- How to change Astro Bot outfits and get a new look
- Netflix unveils angsty, action-packed trailer for Arcane season 2 – though the League of Legends show's release date is still up in the air
- How to find all Astro Bot collectibles, including Bots, Puzzle Pieces, and Warps
- I have the same problem with Marvel Rivals that I had with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, but it's not what you think
- Fortnite's new Doctor Doom update has the chance to turn you into a living, breathing boss battle, with enormous laser beams and an even bigger health bar
- The Rings of Power season 2 just introduced a character with a link to a deep-cut Lord of the Rings villain
- Cult indie dev says the “AA revolution” won’t come back because publishers are chasing “a new Fortnite” and “Suicide Squad-sized bets,” that might get canceled anyway
- Former Nintendo president jokes he'll sell his prized N64 collection for $70,000, but fans are taking the offer very seriously: "I'll buy the whole tub"
- 10 Space Marine 2 tips we wish we knew before battling the Tyranids
- Beetlejuice star Michael Keaton wants to change his acting name after using it for decades, but there's one big issue
- Final Fantasy 14 encouraged series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi to return to Square Enix after 20 years for help freeing his JRPG throwback from Apple Arcade jail
- Official Pokemon stream asks players to "Discover Oddish," mysteriously runs a blank screen for 16 hours, refuses to elaborate
- The titular wolfman in Blumhouse's Wolf Man just got a very unusual first look – via Halloween Horror Nights
- Who was the woman singing in Tom Bombadil's house? Here's your answer
- After George R.R. Martin's House of the Dragon blog, HBO responds to criticisms by backing its showrunner's "extraordinary job"
- A life-and-death-themed Sims 4 expansion seemingly leaked "right on time for spooky season," and fans just want one thing: "We better be able to WooHoo Grim"
- The Minecraft movie is drawing the most dangerous comparison imaginable, as viewers invoke the Borderlands movie and its $90 million box office failure
- Concord's imminent death prompts "infinite love" from its own developers and sympathy from industry figures: "I feel your pain"
- As Blizzard warns Diablo 4's Vessel of Hatred PTR will be more "broken" than ever before, fans deliver with a method to get to level 60 in just 20 minutes
- The Rings of Power does justice to Tom Bombadil by remembering one crucial thing
- The Rings of Power season 2, episode 4 recap and Easter eggs: Meet Tom Bombadil, Middle-earth's oldest resident
- Who are the Stoors in The Rings of Power? Their link to Gollum explained
- Who are the Entwives in The Rings of Power? Explaining their tragic Lord of the Rings history
- Arrowhead says Helldivers 2 Illuminate reference spotted on in-game map is "fake news" caused by "organic tissue degradation on electronic equipment"
- September 4
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- After 6 years, State of Decay 2 is getting its final update this year as dev focuses on making State of Decay 3 "the greatest zombie survival sim in the franchise"
- Exceptional X-Men #1 explained - Everything you need to know about Kitty Pryde and Emma Frost's new mutant team
- Hogwarts Legacy 2 is "one of the biggest priorities" for Warner Bros "a couple of years down the road"
- Silent Hill 2 Remake lets you disable "all UI elements" for "the most immersive experience", and you'll be told where to go by visual, sound, and character cues
- I don't know who at the ESRB decided this bizarre Schoolhouse Rock-style anthem was a good idea, but bless 'em because it's absurdly catchy
- The Minecraft movie's animals are giving people nightmares, please make it stop
- A new Twilight TV show is heading to Netflix
- Games of Thrones author George RR Martin blasts House of the Dragon season 2 and shares concern "more toxic" changes are planned for season 3 in now-deleted post
- Even as Concord dies a fast death, Sony exec says PlayStation doesn't have enough original IP and "that's an issue for us"
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard still isn't an open-world game, but new gameplay footage makes the RPG look way less linear than we feared
- First Joker: Folie à Deux reactions call it a "brilliant musical return to a world of madness"
- Acer listens to feedback, improves cooling for upcoming flagship gaming PCs
- Before returning to The Division 3, Star Wars Outlaws' creative director is spending his "last weeks" on the open-world game "pushing as much as I can"
- Joker: Folie à Deux review – "An unconventional musical sequel that fails to hit the high notes"
- First full trailer for new Netflix true crime drama from Dahmer creators is a wild, violent romp
- Apple’s underseen thriller show Slow Horses is the best TV show you’ve probably never seen
- Nurse Joy, eat your heart out: Pokemon professor creates a ridiculous strategy to heal the maximum amount of health in a single turn by using a dizzying loop of ejector seats
- The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 3 adds a bunch of new cast members – and Guillermo del Toro-loving horror fans will already be familiar with one
- Want to build your own Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine army? Get 15% off these essentials
- Star Wars Outlaws director is a "little disappointed" with the Metacritic score, but plans to keep improving the game
- "They're going to have to kick us out the door!": Ubisoft Massive promises that changes are coming to Star Wars Outlaws as its directors reflect on launch and look to the future
- James Gunn knows what he'd call a Batman and Superman team-up movie in the DCU
- The Golden Joystick Awards return on November 21 with overhauled rules for indie games
- How long is Space Marine 2?
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 review: "Raises the bar for all Warhammer adaptations"
- Enotria devs thank Phil Spencer himself for "helping to resolve our situation" after indefinitely delaying the Soulslike's Xbox port
- Persona dev says splitting the Atlus team to work on Metaphor: ReFantazio was "for the better" and will help the studio's future JRPGs stay "on the right track"
- After a 38-year reign of terror, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom finally lets Hyrule retaliate against Link - by breaking into his house and destroying his pots
- Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake may have "never happened" if its devs didn't have access to the art style Square Enix used to freshen up other beloved JRPGs
- After Redfall and Suicide Squad, Concord's failure must be the nail in the coffin for the industry's failed live-service gold rush
- Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake devs want players to have the "same feeling" exploring the JRPG's open world as they'd have in Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- As Star Wars Outlaws 'no-loading' screens come under scrutiny, its director already reminded us that having seamless planetary flying would've been lots of work for little payoff
- Daredevil: Born Again will feature "some of the most brutal action" Marvel has ever brought to the screen
- A legendary supervillain makes his return as Batman and Catwoman embark on an interplanetary heist
- The live-action Minecraft movie gets a weird and wonderful first trailer, but all I can think about is Jack Black as Steve
- Indie city-builder gets an update so huge that its solo dev is changing the game's name to match: "It marks what I consider as close to a 1.0 version as I can deliver"
- Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom prepares us for the world after Tears of the Kingdom, but lets its hero down in the process
- No Man's Sky Aquarius is the fishing update that Hello Games is "finally" adding after 8 years - and it was inspired by a single piece of fan art
- Supermassive describes Directive 8020 as "The Thing in space," but even with the survival horror elements, it's a Dark Pictures game through and through
- Space Marine 2 release time for early unlock – the new Warhammer 40,000 game is nearly here
- Akira Toriyama's final Dragon Ball anime show, which he contributed to before his death, gets a new trailer
- Agatha All Along executive producer confirms "there will be more Agatha in the future" of the MCU
- Concord is being pulled offline, but it's still set to show up in Amazon's Secret Level series in two months' time
- Borderlands 4 dev urges Concord studio to back up work after losing theirs to Gearbox's hero shooter flop: "I regretted not getting it while I could"
- Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind is an uber-meta blast from the past
- "Darkspawn look comical": Dragon Age: The Veilguard's new Darkspawn design is "very intentional," but fans of the RPG series aren't sold on it quite yet
- Helldivers 2 boss admits the team has been "off course a few times" lately, but don't expect a quicker cadence of Warbonds: "We'd love to pick up the pace again – but need to hit quality first"
- Concord's massive flop hasn't phased Sony, which reportedly feels "very positive" about its next live service from an Assassin's Creed veteran
- The PS2 has been recognized in Japan for its impact on people's lives and culture by becoming the first console to be added to the 'Future Technology Heritage' registry
- Venom: The Last Dance’s secret teaser reveals new scary symbiote, and fans are pretty sure its a villain from the ‘90s comics
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice stars explain why they were "surprised and shocked" when they saw the Tim Burton sequel for the first time
- Joker: Folie à Deux first clip sees Lady Gaga's Harley Quinn and Arthur Fleck break out into song
- Persona 1 and 2 remakes aren't on Atlus' "schedule" right now, but the JRPG series' producer "would like to do it someday"
- Everything we know about Black Ops 6 Zombies so far
- My most anticipated horror just got its first trailer and it's everything I hoped a movie about Amy Adams turning into a dog would be
- "Things will be broken": Diablo 4 community director warns Vessel of Hatred's patch 2.0 PTR will be bumpier than usual
- Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 9 review: “ticking all the right boxes”
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard introduces one cool feature that's guaranteed to save time for ardent BioWare people-pleasers
- Concord is now filled with players throwing themselves off the maps as quickly as possible in a desperate attempt to unlock the shooter's Platinum trophy before it goes offline
- September 3
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- This Stardew Valley-inspired indie where you manage a nerdy board game café is blowing up on Kickstarter with 500% funding in 7 days
- Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake may have "never happened" without its gorgeous pixel art, and after playing for 30 minutes I can see why
- GTA Vice City's most infuriating mission is back - as a $2 PS4 game I can't believe made it through PlayStation's certification process
- First teaser for Noah Hawley's Alien prequel series is nothing short of terrifying
- The first update of Helldivers 2's 60-day rescue plan won't be the "biggest patch of all time", but it will push the game in the "right direction"
- After Baldur's Gate 3, Larian says "the quality bar was set high" - now the studio's figuring out "how to raise it even higher" with its next game
- Croc fans show "enormous, stupendous" amounts of love for the PS1 platformer as the remaster devs reveal they weren't sure anyone "still remembered or cared"
- This new Meta Quest 3 rival has pancake lenses and a 4K display, but there's a catch
- Mike Flanagan’s upcoming Stephen King movie starring Tom Hiddleston and Karen Gillan gets cryptic first look
- Dishonored 2's best level took inspiration from BioShock 2's time-traveling story moment: "We wanted to push that idea a bit more"
- Xbox woes abound as the Black Myth Wukong situation gets weirder, indies get frustrated over lack of communication, and Series S continues offering a "challenge" to devs
- Making a Warhammer crossover worthy of Space Marine 2: "We don’t chase trends and gimmicks"
- Netflix has a new fantasy show starring Jeff Goldblum that’s climbing the streaming charts – but fans are loving it way more than critics
- Slick fantasy JRPG and Metroidvania mashup takes to Kickstarter after 3 years of development, gets funded in 6 hours and triples its funding goal in days
- Concord is being taken offline this week and everyone is getting refunds as PlayStation tries to "determine the best path ahead"
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice streaming date: When will Tim Burton’s horror sequel be on streaming?
- After nearly 200 videos over more than 5 years, The Witcher 3's biggest hidden details hound is hanging up his swords – to turn to Baldur's Gate 3
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star explains how his mom's ex-boyfriends inspired his new "cringey" character: "He's sort of a shake bag of people I know"
- The best Deadlock hero has a whopping 93% pick rate, and it's wiping the floor thanks to its "low skill ceiling" and huge area-of-effect attacks
- One of the most underrated sci-fi thrillers with a great Rotten Tomatoes score is available to watch for free right now
- Where to find the Crimson Dawn Vault keycards in Star Wars Outlaws
- It takes 14,000 real-life steps to trek across Skyrim's massive map, according to a dedicated fan of the RPG who made the journey himself
- 13 years after it was taken offline, a legendary Star Wars MMO helped influence Star Wars Outlaws' iteration of Tatooine
- Space Marine 2's super soldiers are "almost invincible," so creating a genuinely difficult player experience was "quite the challenge"
- How to find the Star Wars Outlaws Pyke Syndicate Vault keycards
- Little Nightmares 3 includes a "melting pot" of fears to face, and after 45 minutes playing, I guess that includes angry office workers
- New Arcane season 2 footage sees Jinx become a symbol of the rebellion, as the entire undercity rallies against Piltover
- For a chunk under $300, I'd give Intel's best graphics card a go
- New MMO from League of Legends' own MMO veteran is taking a MOBA-style approach to classes, with "lots of specialized" ones: "We can't have classes that are too generic"
- Mike Flanagan's upcoming Stephen King movie is "haunting and scary" according to star, who says he's never had an "incredible" experience like it before
- Sequel to one of the best viral horror movies of recent years gets a terrifying new trailer
- MOZA expands its world-leading simulation offering, with a range of new products unveiled at Gamescom
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice's Jenna Ortega on ensuring Astrid wasn't Lydia Deetz 2.0: "Tim just kind of takes a step back and lets you do what you need to do"
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star reveals her secret pitch to Tim Burton before they started making the sequel: "I know it's twisted"
- I played Lost Records: Bloom & Rage for 90 minutes and I'm already attached to its relatable cast, in love with its '90s vibes, and obsessed with the camcorder
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard is shaping up to have some of the RPG series' best quality-of-life features, and fans think they're "fantastic"
- A biopic where singer Robbie Williams is played by a CGI monkey (yes really) is getting rave reactions
- Stephen King's picks for the most "criminally underrated" shows are two horror series with near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes scores
- Helldivers 2 players just miss out on unlocking the Orbital Napalm Barrage - after Arrowhead itself leaked the Stratagem last month
- WoW's beloved pacifist panda returns to hit The War Within's level cap after 10 days of picking flowers, but not before a rival did so in 1 day after clearing out the MMO's marketplace
- Anya Taylor Joy wants to play Elsa in a live-action Frozen for the sweetest reason
- Don't expect a Helldivers 2 update today, Arrowhead confirms, as it continues to work "tirelessly" on its 60-day action plan to improve the third-person shooter
- World of Warcraft: The War Within review – "One of the strongest WoW expansions in recent memory"
- Sci-fi thriller Warm Fusion is a mix of Blade Runner and David Cronenberg movies that "pushes every boundary"
- Ian McKellen says he has no plans to retire anytime soon following Gandalf news: "I'm not letting anyone else put on the pointy hat and beard if I can help it"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows is bringing back double assassinations for the first time in 9 years, and there's a weird lore theory as to why
- Elizabeth Olsen says Natasha Lyonne needed no MCU advice when she was cast in Fantastic Four: "She knows she can navigate any situation"
- Shadowheart's voice actor didn't initially love her character in Baldur's Gate 3 - until she saw the RPG community's reactions
- After Gearbox's disastrous Risk of Rain 2 DLC launch, the roguelike's original devs announce their move to Valve: "We love making games – and will continue to do so, for years to come"
- The best Jackal PDW build for Black Ops 6
- The best Black Ops 6 guns and loadouts to use
- Will there be Terminator Zero season 2? Everything we know about Netflix anime’s future
- "They don't care about you": Dev delays upcoming Soulslike Enotria "indefinitely" as it claims Xbox has ignored its emails "for 2 months"
- Michael Keaton's performance in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice gets high praise from his co-star: "His mind is like a spark plug"
- September 2
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- Former Dead Island and Dying Light devs reveal their new game, a "cozy survival" gem - without any zombies this time
- It could take 2,000 hours to unlock this hidden feature in Pokemon Platinum, HeartGold, and SoulSilver, but at least Professor Oak might tell you you're doing a good job
- From playing dress-up to whipping everything in sight, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is driven by one question: "What would Indiana Jones do?"
- Sylvester Stallone is writing a Rocky prequel that's "almost like Lady and the Tramp"
- This mind-blowing Minecraft demake created by a porting genius for the GameCube now boasts a render distance higher than the official Switch version's
- Will Winona Ryder ever cameo in Wednesday season 2? Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star Jenna Ortega weighs in
- Indie dev failed the review process for a remake of his own game because Steam allegedly said it "seems identical to the game you put out 11 years ago"
- Where to find the Star Wars Outlaws Crashed Speeder
- This behind the scenes video of the final creature in Alien: Romulus will haunt you forever
- It's alive! Universal Monsters: Frankenstein revives one of the original movie maniacs for a terrifying new series
- Red Dead Redemption 2 actor say's he'd "absolutely" play Arthur Morgan in a TV adaptation, but that probably won't happen because Hollywood doesn't understand mocap
- The Sims 4 at 10: how queer fans have found "pure joy" through representation
- Self-professed Star Wars Outlaws "tourist" brilliantly recreates Tatooine stills from A New Hope
- I’m hyped to see Best Buy stocking premium Ayaneo handhelds, but the prices are scary
- Metal Gear Solid 2 speedrunners sent back to the drawing board after a Windows 11 update, not Konami, fixes a time-saving glitch
- Wolfs review: "George Clooney and Brad Pitt riff on their Ocean’s Eleven charisma in this fun frolic"
- Once I stopped treating Baldur's Gate 3 like a video game, I finally got good at it
- Baldur's Gate 3 director was shocked that people dubbed the RPG a Divinity: Original Sin 2 "rip-off" before launch: "I got a call from my mother who said 'What have you done?'"
- Could the Witch-king be hiding in plain sight in The Rings of Power season 2? One theory has us convinced
- Iconic Mass Effect and Metal Gear Solid actor Jennifer Hale warns "AI is coming for all of us," and it can "destroy who you are"
- World of Warcraft director says leaning on games like Warcraft 3 to make the MMO's most iconic villains means that Blizzard has "struggled" to create new bad guys since
- Baldur's Gate 3 devs thought making the RPG would be as "easy" as giving the D&D rules to programmers, but "before you know it, we're deep down in community forums"
- Star Wars Outlaws devs say keeping the open-world game "authentic to the original trilogy" was "very important" and required "a lot of special care"
- Valve's new hero shooter Deadlock exceeds 150,000 concurrents despite still being invite-only as a new Portal 2 reference appears in-game
- As Marvel Rivals' roster grows, the team has no limits on future heroes: "We had over 9,000 characters to pick from"
- New Dragon Ball series gets release date and extra-long premiere episode
- Blizzard just fixed World of Warcraft's Auction House, but a single "well-meaning" change in The War Within broke it all over again
- The Rings of Power has a musical Sauron Easter egg and the composer is "thrilled" that someone has already found it
- Hideo Kojima celebrates Metal Gear Solid 5's 9th anniversary by remembering how he did basically "everything"
- "I passed on so many games": Phil Spencer says he's made some of the "worst" decisions when it comes to Xbox exclusives, like not signing Destiny or Guitar Hero
- The Borderlands series' "most valuable Shift Code" ever is now available for everyone, all thanks to genius fans cracking a secret code that I'm baffled was solved so fast
- 58 years since the character debuted, James Gunn teases Peacemaker season 2 with a behind-the-scenes image: "I can't wait to show you what we're cooking up"
- 'Now Kiss': Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players are already abusing the new proximity chat feature between human shields
- Super Mario 64, Sunshine, and Galaxy top long-time Mario actor Charles Martinet's list of favorite Mario games, but "Luigi's Mansion just touches my little heart"
- Gandalf returns! Ian McKellen says he’d been approached to return for new Lord of the Rings movie
- September 1
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- Red Dead Redemption 2 actor reveals his biggest regret – a name Arthur definitely got wrong: "Rockstar made me say it wrong. I told them it was wrong. They didn't care"
- Former Nintendo veteran says Shigeru Miyamoto "doesn't accept compromise" in game design: "This is what it takes to be number one at anything in the world"
- Agent 47 has had the same actor for 25 years, and he says he's a "very, very close friend" of Hitman
- Castlevania's incredible DS games have returned, and the best part is a full remake of the forgotten arcade game from before the series went Metroidvania
- One of the OG Grand Theft Auto devs has a new game coming, and it's basically the exact opposite of GTA's violent open-world
- The ultimate Pokemon Emerald completionist is finally ready to tackle the first gym after 20 months of hunting shinies for a challenge so brutal even using a bot barely helps
- Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild are no longer part of the main Legend of Zelda timeline, as Nintendo retcons them as 'standalone' games
- Larian Studios explain how the infamous bear scene changed perceptions toward Baldur's Gate 3: "We got banned on TikTok!"
- "This is definitely my biggest life achievement": Idle Stardew Valley-like Rusty's Retirement hits top 50 highest-rated Steam games among the 11,000+ released this year
- Palworld dev hopes to "help more indie devs" after the survival game's runaway success: "We were in the same position only a year ago until Palworld changed our lives"
