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- July 31
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- Goodbye Doctor Strange - Doctor Doom is now officially the Sorcerer Supreme of the Marvel Universe
- Silent Hill-inspired horror game stuck in Steam limbo as Valve's "longer than expected" review drags on - "We are urgently contacting Steam to expedite the process"
- Borderlands boss feels "vindicated" by the success of other video game adaptations: "It’s a candy store for filmmaking"
- As EA reiterates Dragon Age: The Veilguard is set to launch this fall, BioWare promises a release date announcement in August
- You can use Baldur's Gate 3 characters in new D&D virtual tabletop to continue the party's story
- The First Descendant dev promises "a more rational and satisfying farming experience" days after nerfing the looter shooter's Destiny-style loot cave
- Destiny devs blindsided after another 220 "inexcusable" layoffs are announced publicly: "This is how I’ve found out I’m laid off"
- Ayaneo just launched two new Game Boy handhelds, but they’ll run far more than the classics
- New trailer for Netflix's Terminator anime from Ghost in the Shell studio brings horror back to the franchise
- Steam insider claims Valve is working on a system to ensure players get their season pass content
- College Football 25 production relied on "the power of AI" - and now that it's had 5 million players in its first week, EA isn't gonna stop
- The "perfect" Pokemon Yellow romhack alters everything annoying about the classic Gen 1 game while still keeping its best glitches and quirks intact
- NVIDIA is taking your gaming and creative experiences to the next level with its ever-improving DLSS 3 AI-powered Frame Generation
- 16 years since his last appearance, The Leader star Tim Blake Nelson teases his character's "astonishing" new Marvel look
- Dark Horse's Summer Shadows is a "unique and moody LGBTQIA+ vampire horror" comic
- The next Star Wars show finally has a release date, and a first look that's giving us major ET vibes
- Borderlands boss teases hopes for a sequel, and hopes they’ll have an update before the year is out
- Creator of iconic puzzle game says anniversary remaster "sold like dog s**t," and now his company "can't afford to pay anyone"
- Destiny 2 and Marathon plans got "overly ambitious," so Bungie is firing 220 people and spinning out a sci-fi action game to form a new studio within PlayStation
- Borderlands' OG characters are still "integral to the universe" and Randy Pitchford would be "thrilled" to see them in future games - but they're not in the movie because of Gearbox's Marvel problem
- "WE ARE SO BACK": Elden Ring patch granted a "massive buff" to Shadow of the Erdtree's worst Incantation, and now it's melting through bosses
- Japan uses the power of sports anime Haikyu to spur its volleyball team to victory at the Olympics against Argentina
- New RTS from StarCraft 2 vets raised over $35 million in crowdfunding and investment, but its Mixed early access reviews suggest it needs a bit more time in the oven
- Ubisoft Massive had to "break" The Division's "staccato" pacing to make Star Wars Outlaws' open world
- The Parasite Eve renaissance continues this month with a second indie inspired by Square Enix's cult horror JRPG classic dropping a sick trailer
- JRPG preservationists are resurrecting a 19-year-old Final Fantasy 7 prequel that's been lost media since 2018
- Brie Larson had no idea about Robert Downey Jr.'s surprise Marvel return as Doctor Doom – but she has a better idea about her own future
- The hottest new Skyrim debate asks a mega-important question: How do you get through Whiterun?
- Elden Ring becomes "a spectator sport" as the action RPG's latest patch transforms Spirit Ash summons into boss-slaying machines more worthy of becoming an Elden Lord than us
- Microsoft CFO wants to turn Xbox into a subscription business, and is "really encouraged by some of the progress" of Game Pass
- Baldur's Gate 3 investigator says Larian "neutered" one of the RPG's major factions, stopping its NPCs from using their "most important" D&D class feature
- The Deep actor has the perfect suggestion for how his character should die in The Boys season 5
- 43-year CRPG veteran behind Fallout and Wasteland flexes his OG Baldur's Gate Platinum award - while admitting the 150,000 sales total would be "the end of your career" today
- Becky Cloonan's folk horror anthology Come Find Me is "a landmark event in modern horror comics"
- "The holy grail of DLC skips": $10,000 Elden Ring speedrun competition blows the whole scene wide open with a new gravity-defying strategy that lets you float past bosses
- As Steam's New & Trending chart gets flooded with demos, some devs worry that Valve's rework could be bad news for indie games
- House of the Dragon season 2 finale has partly leaked online, and major spoilers are everywhere
- "They need to fix it": Marvel Rivals' adorable new comic book character is undeniably cute, but he's also "terrible for game health and balancing"
- James Gunn marks the end of Superman filming with a heartfelt tribute and an ice-cold behind-the scenes picture of his cast
- Elden Ring loreheads discover Shadow of the Erdtree's Rellana and Messmer might have been married all along, which could explain the Twin Moon Knight's fancy new decoration
- Giancarlo Esposito teases that Captain America: Brave New World is just the beginning for his Marvel villain Sidewinder
- Activision is open-sourcing one of the biggest Call of Duty maps ever for AI development and to "expand the knowledge base of the gaming industry"
- July 30
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- Legendary Mario Kart 64 speedrunner saves a lost run with a nearly impossible YOLO strat and breaks his own year-old world record
- This Final Fantasy and Howl's Moving Castle-inspired action-RPG with octopus pals is nearing 200% Kickstarter funding and has a demo you can play to find out why
- Star Trek: Lower Decks fans rejoice - the series is continuing as a comic from one of the best writers around
- Hugh Jackman reacting to the final fight sequence in Deadpool and Wolverine is the most wholesome thing you’ll see all day
- Henry Cavill's Warhammer adaptation for Prime Video could still move forward if "creative guidelines" are worked out by the end of the year
- Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is bringing back an iconic 18-year-old Budokai Tenkaichi voice line and fans can't get enough
- Diablo 4 Season 5 patch notes are so big they'll have a "before and after" for all Uniques because "there are changes to nearly every single one"
- After 11 years, fans still think the Deadpool game cost $100 million to make, but one of the original devs says that's ridiculous - "$100 million is GTA-level money"
- Evil Dead's Bruce Campbell reveals what it'd take to get him to play Ash again
- The Sims 4's most beloved adult mod is causing community civil war as players take aim at "unhinged" fans
- Robert Downey Jr.'s first Doctor Doom appearance has reportedly been revealed – and it's not Avengers: Doomsday
- Final Fantasy 14's big Dawntrail balance patch is here to "raise the DPS of certain jobs rather than lower them" as Pictomancer mains survive nerf free and Vipers only get sort-of simplified
- Netflix unveils first trailer for Dune and Hunger Games stars’ new animated movie
- Elden Ring buffs almost every single Spirit Ash summon, leaving out everyone's favorite clone buddy Mimic Tear
- Ghost of Tsushima was Star Wars Outlaws director's "biggest reference" when it came to making his own open-world game
- Helldivers 2 gets fired up with a new Warbond that'll let you wield a flamethrower in every weapon slot
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey helped shape Star Wars Outlaws because its director "could pick up the phone and talk to" Ubisoft's other devs about the technicalities of shaping their open world
- Harrison Ford’s chaotic Captain America: Brave New World interviews just keep on getting funnier: "I will not answer that stupid question"
- A Marvel fan thinks they've worked out how Robert Downey Jr will return to the MCU as Doctor Doom, thanks to Deadpool and Wolverine
- Swifties are feuding with the vampire Lestat, and we're just as confused as you are
- As Fallout London goes through the traditional Bethesda RPG launch, modders offer 1-to-1 troubleshooting as fans aren't "following the install guide properly"
- Atlus' new JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio won't include romance, but its bonding system will "give you a new experience unlike any you have had" in the Persona series
- The Rings of Power fans are convinced season 2 has secretly introduced a major Lord of the Rings character – and, no, it’s not Gandalf
- Kintaro faces a swarm of symbiotes and a wall-crawling mystery in Kid Venom #2
- House of the Dragon season 2, episode 7 hides a sneaky cameo – and we bet you didn't notice it
- Disney Plus fantasy series featuring Derry Girls star canceled after just one season
- Hugh Hammer claiming a dragon in House of the Dragon is way more of a power move than anyone realized
- Cult D&D-style RPG Wildermyth was supposed to be finished - so imagine my surprise at its perfectly-timed console port complete with local co-op
- Marvel Rivals players question "pointless" battle pass that's challenging everyone to grind for a special Thor skin that they'll immediately lose when the beta ends
- I can't help but recommend this Disney Lorcana gift box, and it's never been cheaper
- Anthony Mackie might have just let slip that another Avenger is in Captain America: Brave New World – and it backs up a previous accidental spoiler
- Invincible creator promises "big things" from Mark's "blue suit era" in season 3, following the reveal of his new look
- Captain America: Brave New World star doesn't believe in those MCU criticisms: "It's keeping cinema alive"
- Stunning new Metroidvania released days before layoffs at publisher Humble Games says devs "are now in a difficult situation when it comes to updating the console ports"
- 9 years into development, one-time Minecraft challenger Hytale is checking that its new engine can actually run its own game
- Skibidi Toilet creator pleads innocence as sandbox icon Garry's Mod gets Nintendo-style DMCA over 'unauthorized Skibidi Toilet games' created in his engine
- Hunger Games star's new horror movie gets a creepy, folklore-heavy first trailer
- New Elden Ring patch just made Torrent way easier to use in frantic fights, all thanks to a tiny tweak to the most annoying pop-up in the game
- Channing Tatum finally breaks silence on his over a decade in the making Deadpool and Wolverine cameo
- I didn't think I needed vampire Space Marines, but I guess this new Warhammer 40K set makes me a liar
- Robert Downey Jr. would reportedly only return to the MCU on one, major condition
- "There's no canon": Dragon Age leads say The Veilguard's story and world are "a very personal thing," dependent on "what your world of Thedas is"
- Hit city builder Manor Lords is getting a new feature players have been begging for: "One quality of life feature a day keeps the negative review away"
- Baldur's Gate 3 lead says "forward momentum will make another" game as good as the world-beating RPG as Larian does "much forward thinking" about what's next
- Elden Ring patch 1.13 notes are here, with PvP adjustments, chunkier summons, and a big nerf to one of Shadow of the Erdtree's dumbest strategies
- Surprise, Tarnished, there's a new Elden Ring PvP exploit that lets you insta-kill everyone in the area
- July 29
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- Assassin's Creed Olympics stunt comes full circle as the Paris parkour guy is recreated in Unity
- Florence Pugh is channeling her inner Tom Cruise for Thunderbolts as she reveals her most dangerous stunt in the new Marvel movie
- Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra is being published by Embracer's Plaion, future member of the Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends supergroup
- Hideo Kojima gives his Deadpool and Wolverine verdict and says seeing "a muscular Hugh Jackman" made him tear up: "Even now he is still a hero"
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard actor is "both terrified and thrilled" to voice the protagonist, and says the RPG's diversity "means the world to me"
- Devs behind survival MMO Pax Dei say it currently feels a little more like Valheim than WoW, but that'll change once they let you form "actual civilizations"
- GTA: San Andreas dev says GTA 6 leaks aren't a big deal -"It's just because there are millions of people waiting for any news, and Rockstar doesn't give them any news"
- Borderlands boss says fantasy spin-off Tiny Tina's Wonderlands was "wildly successful," and because it was so big "it's reasonable for our fans to expect more there"
- The Boys showrunner shares his reasons for bringing back Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy in season 5: "Despite his tragic ugliness, we thought we should give him a shot"
- Deadpool and Wolverine has a historic opening weekend for an R-rated movie, and Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds celebrate by recreating that Wolverine meme
- RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says Black Isle Studios' stab at Fallout 3 was never going to be made in time: "With the staff we had it would have been at least two years"
- Marvel star Sebastian Stan says Bucky Barnes is in "a really fun place" in Thunderbolts: "This is the right place to be"
- The Rings of Power's Stranger actor says we "already know who he is": "Do we need his name at this point?"
- Fantastic Four went to incredible lengths to get the perfect design for The Thing
- Ubisoft veterans behind stylish turn-based RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 "all have a love" for JRPG classics like Final Fantasy, "but also want to see something fresh done with the genre"
- House of the Dragon season 2, episode 8 trailer teases an epic finale as the realm goes to war
- The Boys showrunner has seen the first episode of Gen V season 2 and says it's "excellent" - also praising new addition to the cast
- Subnautica 2 teasers may be hiding in plain sight in the first underwater survival game, as one dev not-so-subtly hints that something fishy is afoot
- Thanks to its PS1-era Snitch mechanics, Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions' first gameplay trailer suggests Wizard Sport Tech hasn't moved on in 23 years
- Shattered Space isn't even out yet, but Bethesda's next Starfield expansion may already be in the works
- Marvel writer Deniz Camp hints that The Ultimates #4 will solve the mystery of how Robert Downey Jr. is the MCU’s Doctor Doom
- How is Robert Downey Jr back in the MCU? We break down the potential ways he'll go from Iron Man to Doctor Doom
- Who is Hugh Hammer’s mother in House of the Dragon? Rhaenyra’s secret relative explained
- "Who cares if there's only five people playing": Palworld community lead says you should "just play the games you like" without worrying about "dead" games
- Marvel's new Fantastic Four movie won't be another origin story, says director
- The Boys showrunner teases the high stakes of the final season: "There’s no guarantee on who’s going to survive"
- A "cosmic imbalance" will lead to the return of Jack Kirby's New Gods in a new series from Ram V and Evan Cagle
- As the Xbox 360 marketplace enters its final day, one former exec pays tribute to the beloved store: "All good things must come to an end"
- 25 years and almost 20 movies later, Deadpool and Wolverine’s Ryan Reynolds pays tribute to Fox’s "weird and risky" Marvel universe with an emotional farewell
- Eagle-eyed GTA 6 fans think Rockstar could be hinting at a new trailer release date via an unassuming pizza delivery clip
- Major Assassin's Creed forum draws a line under Assassin's Creed Shadows discussions: "There is no debate - Yasuke was a samurai"
- In a twist of fate, Robert Downey Jr. almost played Doctor Doom in Fantastic Four 20 years ago
- July 28
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- Laura Kinney: Wolverine will take the hero formerly known as X-23 to "the darkest corners of the Marvel universe"
- Double Fine is making several "weird" games that "could never get accepted by a publisher," though some developers leave the door open for Psychonauts 3
- Activision "secretly" turned off skill-based Call of Duty matchmaking and "turns out everyone hated it"
- The Olympics 2024's hooded parkour man was in fact a reference to Assassin's Creed Unity's Arno
- Harrison Ford shares his reaction to Red Hulk transformation: "My wife thinks I look like that all the time"
- Captain America 4 star Anthony Mackie says Winter Soldier was a key reference for Brave New World: "It's something that we stuck to"
- Marvel stars react to Robert Downey Jr.'s return to the MCU: "He was the origin of this whole universe"
- Hellboy: The Crooked Man's new Evil Dead-esque new trailer boasts blood, big action-sequences, and a demonic raccoon
- Marvel unveils the first Avengers: Doomsday cast members – including Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom
- The Fantastic Four title gets revealed at SDCC, and it suggests they're here for the long haul
- First trailer for Marvel's Thunderbolts drops behind closed doors at SDCC 2024
- After months of teasing, Giancarlo Esposito reveals his Captain America: Brave New World villain – and he was right about no one being able to guess it
- The Penguin gets new trailer at SDCC – and finally confirms its release date
- July 27
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- Silo season 2 confirms November release date, as The White Lotus star joins cast
- Psylocke goes full ninja in her own "dark, emotional" solo X-Men title
- The Boys showrunner says new spin-off Vought Rising was originally rejected four years ago and now it's the comic book creator's "favorite" project from the TV team
- Everything announced at Star Trek's SDCC 2024 panel
- 5 years after it was announced, Star Trek: Discovery spin-off movie starring Michelle Yeoh unveils its first trailer
- Star Treks: Lower Decks final season gets release date and first trailer filled with skiing, "space potholes", and alternate versions of the crew
- Sweet Tooth creator Jeff Lemire's new Justice Society of America ongoing series will focus on both the JSA and Infinity, Inc.
- Marvel SDCC 2024 Live Coverage – All the news from the Marvel panel as it happened
- "When I played Persona 4, that exact feeling came back": Atlus' JRPG served as massive inspiration for one hot new indie farming sim
- Developer of 'Overwhelmingly Positive' Steam city-builder hopes for Metacritic representation: "Players love it, streamers love it, sales are great"
- Mega Man meets Shovel Knight in this new retro platformer "where almost anything goes," and Steam reviews are already glowing
- Absolute Green Lantern is writer Al Ewing's first series for DC and will be a "complete reimagining" of the concept, starring multiple Lanterns
- Final Fantasy 7 community effort to mod unused content back into the classic JRPG takes another big step forward
- One of 2024's goriest horror movies is getting a surprise sequel – and it's "coming soon"
- It's official - Doctor Doom will be the next big villain of the Marvel Universe, and the heroes are already kneeling at his feet
- Iron Man is leading a new West Coast Avengers team that will try to turn Ultron into a hero
- Spider-Man's new magic suit revealed, along with his surprising new connection to Doctor Doom
- Marvel's new Ultimate Universe turns one year old with a special one-shot this December
- July 26
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- 5 years and 3 delays later, Junji Ito's Uzumaki anime series has a new teaser and release date - and I'm still not ready
- Spider-Gwen leads a team of MCU fan-favorite characters including Sylvie, B-15, Captain Carter, OB, Mobius, and more in new TVA comic
- The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon gets early season 3 renewal, as Norman Reedus confirms it'll be set in Spain
- Invincible creator addresses whether or not season 3 will be split into two parts: "We're aware of the fact that it was not popular"
- First Like a Dragon: Yakuza Prime Video trailer teases Kiryu's iconic tattoo and Kamurocho's glitzy, criminal underworld
- New The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 2 trailer teases romance, Carol's chaotic journey to France, and glow-in-the-dark zombies
- James Gunn unveils first trailer for DC show Creature Commandos, and it's a colorful, madcap ride
- Borderlands boss says fans will be "very, very happy with the next video game" - and "we’re not going to be making people wait for a long time before we announce it"
- Meet the all new Spider-Girl with a mysterious origin that will "keep readers guessing"
- The Walking Dead: Dead City's Negan reunites with Maggie, Manhattan, and a baseball bat in tension-filled first teaser
- 16 years later, beloved brawler RPG Castle Crashers is getting new DLC where you make your own characters that animate "like magic"
- Just as Deadpool and Wolverine hits theaters, Wade Wilson is going to die in comics - and his daughter will replace him as the new Deadpool
- After 6 straight Olympic appearances over 16 years, Mario and Sonic are sitting out Paris 2024
- Doctor Who unveils first look at Christmas special and confirms Varada Sethu's companion name – and her potential link to an existing character
- Invincible season 4 confirmed as Prime Video reveals first look at Mark Grayson's season 3 suit
- Loki star to lead new Doctor Who spin-off series from showrunner Russell T Davies
- The Boys season 5 makes good on that season 4 post-credits scene as it confirms Soldier Boy will be a series regular
- The Boys announces new '50s-set spin-off centered on Soldier Boy and Stormfront, and scripts are already being written
- "Everyone is looking at Black Myth Wukong": Phantom Blade Zero director expects the most-wishlisted game on Steam to be a breakthrough moment for China
- New The Rings of Power season 2 trailer sees Middle-earth unite to resist Sauron
- First Gen V season 2 trailer gets shown behind closed doors at SDCC 2024 – and it features a cameo from a fan-favorite The Boys character
- "All it does is burn out and demoralize the developers": Obsidian's Josh Sawyer on "what's infuriating" about unrealistic dates for games that simply aren't ready
- Ultraman will join forces with Spider-Man to fight Doctor Doom in a new manga that sounds like a fan dream come true
- This whimsical creature-collecting fantasy RPG is like Pokemon with an Eastern-inspired twist, and I love it
- Another Call of Duty cheat maker says it got "a legal notice from Activision," shuts down immediately: "We are in no position to litigate with such a large company"
- "There is no way to AI generate this quality": Manor Lords creator shuts down AI concerns over the city builder's new update
- Chris Hemsworth compares Optimus Prime and Megatron’s Transformers One relationship to Thor and Loki: "There is a tight bond between two individuals that becomes fractured"
- Renowned accessory maker Anker has a Steam Deck dock, and it just so happens to be down to its lowest price
- Deadpool and Wolverine has a surprise ‘cameo’ that might secretly be a spoiler for the next Avengers movie
- Fallout London feels like an actual Bethesda RPG launch: heaps of praise mixed in with plenty of crash complaints
- After Steam users unleash 1,456 negative reviews, Earth Defense Force 6 is "planning changes" to its Epic account requirement
- This dating sim lets you date furniture and household items, including pianos and baths, plus something monstrous voiced by Delicious In Dungeon's iconic Senshi
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard took "so long" as BioWare "wanted to make sure we got this one right" - that, and "it takes a long time to record 700 characters" and 140,000 lines
- Transformers One producer and director explain why Chris Hemsworth is the perfect young Optimus Prime – and how he follows in Peter Cullen's footsteps
- Joining pregnancy tests and potato-powered calculators, smash hit roguelike Balatro is the latest thing that can run Doom
- Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and more DC heroes join forces to restore the Justice League in a new ongoing series from Kingdom Come writer Mark Waid
- GTA 6 won't be affected by the ongoing video game actor strike over protections against AI
- Warframe gets a mutated boy band in its whacky 90s update because the MMO's director accidentally "ruined" her family computer with a virus from Napster in 1999: "That always stuck with me"
- Marvel flips Deadpool and Wolverine drone display into a surprise Fantastic Four and Galactus tease at San Diego Comic-Con
- After 14 years at IDW, the license for Dungeons and Dragons comics is moving to Dark Horse
- After 20 years, JRPG vets behind this 710-hour story say ending the saga would’ve been impossible in their 20s because they "didn't have the necessary life experience"
- The Sims 4 Lovestruck's dating app is already more chaotic than Tinder, as Sims match with everything from catfish to… Shrek?
- Those PS1 Harry Potter games that have been memed for the last 20 years are getting an indie spiritual successor that’s a “complete mess of a game”
- 1,370 deaths later, Elden Ring streamer beats Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss on controller and dance pad at the same time - matching a feat they accomplished with the base RPG
- Manor Lords dev says Unreal Engine 5 upgrade looks like a "smoother overall experience" so far, but here are some new coats of arms that "medieval games for some reason never add" while you wait
- After 2 years, Switch players still don't have Stardew Valley-like farming sim Coral Island - and now devs say Humble Games layoffs leave the game's future on all consoles "uncertain"
- Remnant 2, one of 2023's most surprising RPGs, is getting another DLC this year and I can't wait to come back
- Almost 100 modders spent 5 years making Fallout London, an RPG mod so expansive its creators call it "Fallout 4.5"
- Humble Games-published Pokemon-inspired MMO turns support to gorgeous new Metroidvania that released days before its publisher's restructuring
- Marvel brings Phase 3 of its Star Wars: The High Republic comic to an end with new series Fear of the Jedi, featuring The Acolyte's Wookiee Jedi Master
- Valve overhauls Steam demos to act more like full games, complete with user reviews and chart positions
- Kevin Feige calls watching Deadpool and Wolverine the "best movie experience" of his life as cameos made surprise appearances at SDCC
- Transformers One director talks plans for a sequel: "There’s a lot more story to tell"
- BioShock movie will be a "much smaller version" than originally planned after Netflix "lowered the budgets"
- Gran Turismo 7 dev apologizes for "unintended vehicle behavior" in new update, which is really selling it short: these cars are going to space, folks
- July 25
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- Tales of the TMNT’s opening goes shell for leather in a 30-second preview packed with Mutant Mayhem’s spirit and style
- It sure looks like Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered is about to be announced
- Deadpool and Wolverine's Laura Kinney gets her claws bloody in NYX #2 preview
- Marvel reveals its full slate of October 2024 comics and covers featuring the X-Men, Spider-Man, the Avengers, and more
- Teacup is a "can't-but-must-look" horror series coming this October that's produced by James Wan and inspired by a cult classic sci-fi novel
- Todd McFarlane’s long-awaited Spawn movie will be R-rated and the first draft of its "badass" script is already complete
- The Xbox 360 store dies for good on July 29, but Microsoft's giving you one last chance to buy some classics before they're gone
- Across Activision, EA, and more, video game actors are striking for protection from AI: "Frankly, it’s stunning that these video game studios haven’t learned anything"
- New Transformers One trailer is a fast, frenetic look at how Optimus Prime and Megatron went from "best friends" to eternal enemies
- Ryan Reynolds says Deadpool and Wolverine's original title was shelved 24 hours before its reveal after fans who saw the leak "f***ing hated it"
- I really need fellow 90s kids to see this Lego Super Mario World set
- Cult classic shooter series returns to Steam after 5 years and immediately takes a piledriver into the review dumpster over Epic Games account requirement
- Dogpool explained: The comics history of Deadpool and Wolverine's standout star
- Elden Ring players are using the clunky "fat roll" to dodge Shadow of the Erdtree's notorious final boss, and at this point I'm convinced it's genius
- Dune and Mission: Impossible star joins cast of Peaky Blinders Netflix movie opposite Cillian Murphy
- After pleading guilty to evading nearly $300,000 in taxes, the artist for one of the best mystery manga in years dodges prison time on suspended sentence
- Indie developer behind 'Overwhelmingly Positive' rated shipbuilder argues that Steam's "free advertising" is worth the 30% cut
- A Sims 4 bug once again has Sims wanting to date family members, regrettably just in time for the romance-themed Lovestruck expansion
- After 24 years, the legendary visual novel that put the Fate/stay night devs on the map has an English remake, and it's out-reviewing FF7 Rebirth, Hades 2, and more
- The Fantastic Four cast assembles for the first time in new behind-the-scenes picture
- FromSoftware clocks another win as Armored Core 6, the mech series' return after 10 years of Souls games, hits 3 million copies sold
- Destiny 2 streamer celebrates a new raid DPS trick before Bungie hops on to say "this breaks our ToS" and issues a warning
- Thor is wanted for murder in the United States – but that's only the start of his problems as Hercules calls in a favor
- Hot dang, the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition trilogy is just $9 on PlayStation - that's less than $1 per romanceable alien
- Slitterhead's body-hopping action makes it "completely different from stereotypical horror," Silent Hill creator says
- Marvel fans are loving one of Deadpool and Wolverine's cheekiest moments
- James Gunn has an update on Superman production as one key actor wraps filming
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes star Freya Allan teases potential sequel: "I know things"
- My Chemical Romance bassist Mikey Way wishes it could be Christmas every day with a new "bizarre feel-good" festive comic inspired by classic '80s comedy The 'Burbs
- Diablo 4 lead turns up at Whoopi Goldberg's weed event to bury the hatchet and present her with a 'Key to Hell,' 1 year after pissing her off because you can't play the action RPG on Mac
- Joker 2 is "daring" and "darker" than the original, says Venice Film Festival chief
- EA apologizes for yet another buggy Sims 4 update, says it'll have a word with "overly mean Sims" ahead of Lovestruck expansion
- Stalker 2 gets another delay, this time to November so devs can sort out its technical issues
- Tekken 8 director Harada "didn't mean to lie" when he said awful dad Heihachi Mishima was really, truly dead
- Marvel Rivals offers refuge to Mercy mains left out by Overwatch nerfs as the new hero shooter resurrects her most broken ability
- Deadpool and Wolverine's wildest cameo features an easily missed shoutout to a major meme
- Terraria creators cameo in a new JRPG-inspired Pokemon and Stardew Valley mashup: "No game has better NPCs now"
- As Helldivers 2 gears up to bring back an old threat, veterans of the original shooter come together to train newer recruits on how to squash them: "It is our duty"
- Palworld community lead says really, "We didn't AI generate any Pals" and "no lawsuit ever existed" following viral Pokemon comparisons
- The Star Wars community has launched a fan campaign to get The Acolyte season 2
- After Genshin Impact's explosive success, PlayStation's been collecting gacha games for PS5 like money-printing Infinity Stones
- Leaked Star Wars Outlaws gameplay shows how Ubisoft's open-world adventure begins
- When does Deadpool and Wolverine take place on the Marvel timeline?
- No, Deadpool and Wolverine doesn't retcon Loki season 2: The new Marvel movie's tie-in with the TVA, explained
- Deadpool and Wolverine post-credits scenes explained
- What is an 'anchor being'? Deadpool and Wolverine's new MCU term, explained
- Deadpool and Wolverine ending explained: From Cassandra Nova's fate to that shawarma gag
- 24 of the biggest Deadpool and Wolverine Easter eggs, explained
- Every Deadpool and Wolverine cameo, explained
- Is Deadpool and Wolverine part of the MCU? Its ties to canon explained
- Will there be a Deadpool 4? Everything we know about a potential Marvel sequel
- July 24
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- "It's just like the Souls games before Elden Ring": Phantom Blade Zero director walks us through this action RPG's seamless, non-linear map
- "I'm not criticizing devs who do charge for DLC": Stardew Valley creator explains his stance on free updates in a state of burrito-deprived sleeplessness
- Days after losing a "friendly" race to Bethesda staff, over 500 World of Warcraft devs unionize at Blizzard: "Never happier to be outrun"
- "All of history becomes a war zone" in new Terminator comic celebrating the original movie's 40th anniversary
- After 11 years in early access, open-world survival horror sandbox 7 Days to Die is officially launching tomorrow with "revolutionary" updates
- Elden Ring speedrun legend offers $10,000 for the ultimate Shadow of the Erdtree challenge: Level 1, DLC weapons only, and limited Scadutree levels
- PlayStation's new online FPS won't have a battle pass because "you own Concord, Concord doesn't own you"
- 72,632 'Overwhelmingly Negative' reviews later, EA walks back controversial Apex Legends battle pass changes: "You've spoken, and we've listened"
- As cries for Dino Crisis and Mega Man revivals intensify, Capcom says it has to think about the "gameplay and specific appeal that an IP holds"
- Activision Blizzard is reportedly already making games with AI, and quietly sold an AI-generated microtransaction in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
- This JRPG-inspired farming sim I've waited ages for just released, and it offers the coziest Pokemon x Stardew Valley vibes
- I imagine Capcom popping a blood vessel as helpful investors make suggestions like this: just release Monster Hunter Wilds earlier bro, just put it on Switch dude
- The Sims 4 fans call long-awaited free update a "total mess" as bugs ironically see Sims "ruining all of their relationships" ahead of Lovestruck expansion
- Final Fantasy 16 and Warframe actor gives the perfect summary of Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree: "I have no idea where I am ... I found myself going down, down, down"
- Terrifier 3 gets a new trailer featuring a long-lost franchise character and a bloody shower scene that makes Psycho look tame
- After 150 hours and over 2,000 bodies collected in Honour Mode, the sanest Baldur's Gate 3 fan crowns the "ultimate Durge playthrough"
- Indie devs working with Humble Games were also blindsided by the publisher reportedly laying off all employees: "This will have drastic consequences"
- The First Descendant update nerfs its Destiny-style loot cave but keeps its reward efficiency "significantly higher than originally intended" thanks to its popularity
- Dave Bautista is "up for anything" in James Gunn's DCU, but there was one role he became "obsessed" with
- The Penguin TV show will go "almost directly" into The Batman 2
- Good news Bridgerton fans, Netflix has confirmed season 4 will focus on the most interesting sibling, and we cannot wait
- JRPG legend says graphical leaps make Dragon Quest's "symbolic" silent leads "increasingly difficult to depict": "If you make a protagonist who just stands there, they will look like an idiot"
- Helldivers 2 gets a Crowdstrike-Microsoft situation of its own as Ministry of Truth tells service technicians to manually reboot affected computers 15 times "to bring systems back online"
- Ubisoft veteran behind Mario + Rabbids games and one of the sweetest E3 moments ever is leaving to "embark on a new adventure" after 25 years
- No Man's Sky dev proves it's not all "smoke and mirrors in space games" by zipping across "3 planets in 50 seconds" to show how "powerful" the engine really is
- San Diego Comic-Con 2024 live coverage – All the news from SDCC 2024 as it happened
- Elden Ring players, put on your best armor and robes: the Drip Inspector is back in town, and you don't want this Invader to catch your fashion lacking
- 25 years on, Keanu Reeves pays heartfelt tribute to The Matrix
- Transformers One first reactions say it "honors the legacy of the franchise" and is "one of the genuine surprises of the year"
- Nintendo's new gacha keychains contain real GameCube, N64, and SNES controller parts, giving retro enthusiasts in Japan a surprising source of replacement buttons
- One easily missed Joker: Folie à Deux trailer detail suggests another Batman villain is in the movie
- Humble Games owner reportedly tried to sell the publisher twice before turning to mass layoffs and a third party to help "manage the slate"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows debate somehow reaches Japanese government ministries, who reportedly remind everyone that historical fiction isn't really their concern at all
- "We could never have predicted how far this game would go": Helldivers 2's biggest update yet is just the "first step" to "expand the game in big, meaningful ways"
- A producer on one of this summer's newest anime says it has "the greatest staff ever assembled"
- Square Enix's farming sim RPG Harvestella has one element that's twice as hard because one of its devs played Elden Ring
- July 23
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- Square's PS1 fighting game was nearly based on JRPG icon Chrono Trigger until Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama showed up and said "I'll draw some new characters"
- Baldur's Gate 3 "was the push over the cliff" that got Warframe devs to add a romance system to the MMO's massive 1999 update
- Todd McFarlane's long in-development Spawn movie just got a major update from producer Jason Blum that changes the whole concept
- Nintendo revokes Splatoon 3 World Championship win following racist remarks from some winners: "The team will not receive trophies"
- Humble Games confirms layoffs amid "restructuring," but says Humble Bundle and "ongoing projects and upcoming releases" aren't affected
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 releases on Game Pass tomorrow in a first for the long-running FPS series
- Actual Lego Fortnite sets are on the way, including the most unsettling kit I've ever seen
- Pokemon professor estimates it'd take you over 81 sextillion years to truly 100% Emerald, long enough for the sun to explode over 10 trillion times
- One of the new mission types in Helldivers 2's massive update is basically Death Stranding except you're transporting a kidnapped bug baby
- Leonardo searches for a new way of life in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #3
- GTA 6 won't be "wildly different" from GTA 5, former Rockstar dev predicts: "I think maybe people might be a little disappointed on the first day"
- Helldivers 2 tackles "grief kicking" in its massive August update: if you get kicked, you'll be the host of a new session with "all of the team's loot" intact
- Assassin's Creed Origins actor heard a line while filming House of the Dragon that he liked so much he snuck it into his Metroidvania-style adventure game
- As Helldivers 2 grunts are tasked with squashing 1 billion bugs, High Command not-so-subtly hints that "Terminid aggression and expansion may increase in response"
- Helldivers 2's big update revealed: "Escalation of Freedom" adds new and returning bots and bugs, more missions, bigger outposts, and difficulty 10 "Super Helldive"
- New Joker: Folie à Deux trailer is a wild ride through Joker and Harley Quinn's twisted, show-stopping romance
- House of the Dragon fans think the show has secretly killed off one of last season's best characters, and the clue is in season 2 episode 6
- Diablo 4 Season 5 Campfire stream kicks off in 9 days to "go over all changes post PTR"
- House of the Dragon star celebrates his surprise return to the show with sweet behind the scenes post
- Baldur's Gate 3's sex noise specialist is here to voice your Dragon Age: The Veilguard character: "I sit on a throne of moans"
- Top Gun 3 gets a cryptic update from star Glen Powell: "I have a date"
- Kevin Feige says he "occasionally" thinks about a Marvel and DC crossover: "Never say never"
- I've had it up to here with Warhammer Space Hulk teases, and this new board game doesn't help
- 2 months after a shaky PC and mobile launch, Genshin competitor Wuthering Waves is confirmed to be in development for PS5
- Ubisoft apologizes for Assassin's Creed Shadows promotional material that's "caused concern within the Japanese community," promises the RPG will "keep evolving until launch"
- Kevin Feige is already talking to Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman about future MCU projects
- Nobody 2 gets its villain and it's a perfect casting choice: Basic Instinct's Sharon Stone
- Deadpool and Wolverine star Matthew Macfadyen says watching Hugh Jackman back as Wolverine is a treat: "It’s in his bones"
- Deadpool and Wolverine originally had everyone's favorite WandaVision no-show as its villain
- Manor Lords gets crossbows and a new trade feature when the city builder's next update lands in the "next few weeks"
- Astro Bot leads PLAY’s Hot 50 games
- Deadpool and Wolverine may be filthy, but Paradox star Matthew Macfadyen says it's ultimately "a really lovely buddy movie"
- Deadpool and Wolverine first reactions are here, and it’s the most hype we’ve seen for a Marvel movie in years
- Deadpool and Wolverine star Matthew Macfadyen doesn’t think Paradox is a villain – but wishes he was
- July 22
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- Evo 2024 just brought us a new contender for the greatest moment in fighting game history, and the man who did it is already becoming a meme
- As Deadpool and Wolverine brings X-Men to the MCU, Kevin Feige says the "Mutant era" has begun
- Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 7 beta delayed after "passive dice rolls literally stopped working," but Larian tides us over by teasing "over 1,000 fixes and improvements"
- Marvel's new manga-influenced Ultimate X-Men are officially here, and they're about to take on a sinister mutant cult
- Alien: Romulus has a perfect Easter egg from the best Alien game
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev explains in painstaking detail how and why players get to break the game: "The easy thing would be to block players ... but we don't like that at Larian"
- The First Descendant dev apologizes for translation snafu, says rewards at its Destiny 2-style loot cave will be adjusted to be in line with other farming spots
- Emma Corrin teases "brilliant" Nosferatu, as they praise vampire horror's director Robert Eggers: "He's a total genius"
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and other graphics cards might not happen until 2025, but that’s arguably a good thing
- "The game is challenging enough already": Frostpunk 2 devs reveal "user-friendly" changes in the works since the survival city builder's delay
- A kiss scene was filmed for Twisters, but Steven Spielberg asked for it to be cut
- Deadpool and Wolverine's Cassandra Nova is "not what you'd expect from a villain", says Emma Corrin
- Final Fantasy 14's new raid armor makes some of the MMO's lewdest pants even lewder, and the community's treating this bug as a feature
- Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone says he hasn't forgotten about the console and mobile release of Stardew Valley update 1.6: "It's on my mind every minute"
- Xbox's EMEA marketing director says PlayStation is "blessed with marketing funds" that team green doesn't have: "Regrettably they outspend us"
- Deadpool and Wolverine director was "completely shocked" at the creative freedom Marvel gave them for the superhero sequel
- Deadpool and Wolverine director teases Hugh Jackman's new "less silent, less distant" Logan: "He's a haunted man"
- Marvel planted fake leaks to hide Deadpool and Wolverine's biggest cameos: "There may been some misdirections on the internet"
- Big changes are coming to Star Wars Legion, and I might finally try it
- The Boys finale changed a scene because of Karl Urban's "heartbreakingly great" acting – and the showrunner thinks he deserves awards
- Blizzard says it was "freeing" to make a Diablo 4 class like the Spiritborn and just "try some crazy stuff out" that you won't find in the base action RPG
- Helldivers 2 grunts pull off a clutch Major Order win with 43 minutes to spare, and High Command is so impressed that we're all being given free mech suits for a while
- New House of the Dragon season 2, episode 7 trailer teases an action-packed lead up to the finale with new alliances and more dragons
- House of the Dragon season 2, episode 6 might have introduced a major antagonist in a quick, gory moment
- 13 years later, retail listings spark hopes that beloved JRPG Tales of Xillia is getting a remaster
- Deadpool and Wolverine director Shawn Levy on whether the movies will ever openly explore Wade's pansexuality: "His heart belongs to Vanessa"
- The Boys star Karl Urban confirms our worst fears: the final season isn’t out for another two years
- Baldur's Gate 3's award-nominated narrator is going to mess with your head in Warframe: 1999
- After stacking an ungodly amount of buffs, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss can be defeated in a single hit so strong that even its second phase cutscene can't save it
- That surprise kiss in House of the Dragon season 2, episode 6 was unscripted – and all Emma D'Arcy's idea
- Deadpool and Wolverine star explains Marvel villain Cassandra Nova's mysterious motivations, and how they're intrinsically linked to Professor X
- New Deadpool and Wolverine footage reveals a fan-favorite Loki cameo
- 12 years on, Stardew Valley creator swears "On the honor of my family name, I will never charge money for a DLC or update for as long as I live"
- Fighting game legend Harada said he couldn't believe how dead Heihachi Mishima was, so Tekken 8 is resurrecting the big bad dad yet again
- Deadpool and Wolverine executive producer reveals which Marvel hero she'd love to see the Merc with a Mouth team-up with next
- Deadpool and Wolverine star explains why he never wants his character Peter to get superpowers
- House of the Dragon season 2 episode 6: Who is the wild dragon in the Vale?
- House of the Dragon season 2, episode 6 brings back another major character
- July 21
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- New The Witcher 3 mod adds consequences to your sociopathic behavior with a full-blown reputation system
- Devil May Cry creator Hideki Kamiya feels it's his "duty" to make sequels to Okami and Viewtiful Joe: "Capcom-san, please, let's do it together"
- VA-11 Hall-A developers are doing what Square Enix won't: making a spiritual successor to cult classic JRPG Parasite Eve
- Recovering from the first game's shutdown, Splatoon 3 fans wonder how the latest and "biggest" Splatfest will shape an inevitable Splatoon 4
- After 10 long years, The Sims 4 Lovestruck finally lets NPCs come to you and ask to advance the relationship for a change: "We just want you to be able to play your way"
- July 20
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- Blizzard didn't want Diablo 4's new Spiritborn class to be another MMO-grade "pet class" where you just outsource all the fun stuff
- Baldur's Gate 3's Neil Newbon would love to play Astarion again: "Live action or game, I don't care – an advert for grape juice"
- Cyberpunk 2 director is "quite sure" people haven't found all of the secrets in The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077
- Microsoft hits back at the FTC's "misleading" letter that called Xbox Game Pass Standard a "degraded" service as a result of the Activision Blizzard buyout
- The Sims 4 Lovestruck reinvents Tinder with Cupid's Corner, EA's upcoming fully functional dating app for Sims
- July 19
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- After 8 years and more than 30 volumes, one of my favorite slice of life manga is entering its final arc and I don't know how to feel
- As Windows bug stalls global flights and hospitals with blue screen of death, Warframe dev thinks the timing for “our Y2K-themed demo is a little too on the nose"
- With the determination that makes MMOs special, Old School RuneScape player kills 16,000 chickens by hand for a week because "I like my feathers covered in blood"
- After lending his skills to mega mod Fallout London, Baldur's Gate 3's Neil Newbon says he wants to do "Bethesda stuff – I love Fallout, man"
- Larian finally throws its hands up as one 1,400-hour Baldur's Gate 3 player beats every backup possible, including a magic fish, to doom the world and find new content
- The Witcher's '90s comics are getting an English translation more than 30 years after they were first published
- Dev behind some of the best retro throwbacks on Switch turns an April Fools joke into a gorgeous Zelda-like with ’90s anime vibes
- My favorite controller alternative is getting a sequel, and I couldn’t be more excited
- While we wait for Simpsons: Hit and Run to leave PS2 purgatory, one modder flawlessly brings the cult-classic open-worlder to PS Vita
- Director Ridley Scott gave Alien: Romulus star just three blunt yet hilarious words of advice
- DC reveals its full slate of October 2024 comics and covers featuring Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and more
- "I realized very quickly this was D&D": Astarion actor Neil Newbon sniffed out Baldur's Gate 3, or maybe Icewind Dale 3, and put in for 10 of the RPG's 12 races mid-Final Fantasy 16
- Logan star Dafne Keen addresses her surprise return in Deadpool and Wolverine: "It was like eight years hadn't passed"
- Elden Ring's upcoming patch promises an important fix: crediting translators "missing in the end credits" after Shadow of the Erdtree
- Elden Ring yapper beats Shadow of the Erdtree DLC using voice controls, taking down the final boss in a flurry of "wow," "panic," and "shrimp"
- CDPR vet reflects on a classic RPG problem: The stats-over-fashion "clown meta" in Cyberpunk 2077, which lots of players hated but almost nobody knew how to fix
- Logan star Dafne Keen returns to Marvel in shocking new Deadpool and Wolverine trailer
- Former BioShock director Ken Levine spoke about Alec Baldwin and Emma Stone for roles in the sci-fi series, but he's unsure gamers really care about Hollywood actors
- The First Descendant names and shames thousands of players in its first "crackdown on abusive users"
- Gladiator 2’s emperor actor teases the "wild" sequel and how his character is surprisingly inspired by punk star Sid Vicious
- The Rings of Power's The Stranger actor never asked the showrunners if he was playing Lord of the Rings character Gandalf
- The Boys creator teases "apocalyptic" final season: "They need to come together and save the world"
- The Acolyte’s [SPOILER] look was inspired by a Guillermo del Toro horror movie and Gollum’s early designs
- Scalpers targeting a limited-time Final Fantasy 14 promo event are hoarding boba to try and flip a mount to the MMO's community for up to $150 a pop
- Marvel fans are convinced Deadpool and Wolverine villain Cassandra Nova is going to have an Infinity Stone-encrusted Sling Ring after Ryan Reynolds shares cryptic tease
- Diablo 4's Spiritborn class has only just been fully revealed, but you can already find out everything about it thanks to 1 fan's giant 37-page "giga document"
- Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 developers made "elaborate" secrets because they knew players would use guides and "share with the community"
- This 16-bit arcade-style Helldivers 2 demake concept captures the chaos of managed democracy perfectly
- The Acolyte star Manny Jacinto reveals that Osha and Qimir holding hands in the finale was a last-minute change – and his idea
- New horror movie debuts to a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, giving Longlegs some serious competition
- In good news for shippers everywhere, The Acolyte star Manny Jacinto thinks "people can look forward to more" of the tension between Qimir and Osha
- A year after being removed from Netflix, Mike Flanagan’s ‘lost’ horror movie gets a new release date
- Ubisoft shoots down delaying Star Wars Outlaws over widespread graphics complaints: "The level of quality of the world and the experience is really very high"
- FTC calls new Xbox Game Pass Standard a "degraded product," says the subscription changes are "exactly the sort of consumer harm" from the Activision merger it alleged could happen
- The Acolyte star Manny Jacinto had no idea about that major Star Wars cameo until he saw the finale
- "It's about time": 10 years later, The Sims 4 is "finally" adding a feature fans think should've been there since "day one"
- Baldur's Gate 3 and D&D license owner Wizards of the Coast finds its new president in a World of Warcraft veteran of 12 years
- Halo has been canceled after two seasons – but might finish the fight at another streaming service
- Bruce Willis compared working on The Sixth Sense to Pulp Fiction, telling M. Night Shyamalan "you've got it, kid"
- Diablo 4 Season 5 campfire livestream from Blizzard devs is coming "in a couple weeks with final notes and all"
- Don’t fork out AU$330 for the PlayStation Portal: this brilliant alternative is just AU$129 for Prime Day
- July 18
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- Ghost and Kingpin join the fray in Venom: Separation Anxiety #3 preview
- 25 years later, Counter-Strike co-creator says Valve has "done a great job" with the FPS icon, and he still regrets "not balancing some of the weapons, such as the AWP"
- After 22 years, the remastered version of a cult classic Game Boy Advance JRPG just appeared on Steam with a bunch of user-friendly updates
- World of Warcraft and other MMO veterans form new studio to make something that combines "cozy escapism and true crime"
- Ironing out Diablo 4's first new class, Blizzard went through "like 60" prototype skills: "What feels fun? What's different? What's working for people?"
- Legendary MMO speedrunner "can finally play the game again" after a 1,758-hour record for one of Old School RuneScape's most brutal challenges
- Diablo 4 class designer says they went a little too hard on Spiritborn and some things "didn't make the cut," but some "favorite" ideas may return "in the future"
- I've seen The Sims 4 Lovestruck's new turn-ons and turn-offs feature, and I'm pleased to say it looks like it's even better than it was in The Sims 2
- The Sims 4 Lovestruck expansion looks good, but the free base game update accompanying it looks even better
- "Iron Man is going to war": Marvel's new Iron Man #1 features Tony Stark's bizarre new "fury-powered" armor and a major returning foe
- Gamers have been voting with their wallet for years – that's why 82% of US players reportedly made freemium in-game purchases last year
- The First Descendant updates the icons it was accused of ripping off from Destiny 2 to reflect the looter shooter's "unique identity"
- “If the sales don’t stagnate, we can actually live off of this”: Dev of open-world horror game says “lifelong dream” may come true after promising early access launch
- The Boys season 4 ending explained: how it sets up the final season
- The Boys season 4 episode 8 recap and Easter eggs: Is this the end of Billy Butcher as we know him?
- The Boys season 4 post-credits scene explained - a surprise return from a fan-favorite
- Fallout season 2 scripts are already finished and Prime Video boss thinks fans will be "happy" with how quickly the show is set to return
- Dune TV show featuring Vikings, Heartbreak High, and Kingsman stars unveils new trailer – and confirms November release date
- The Binding of Isaac creator's roguelike about cat eugenics is almost "content complete" after spending 12 years in and out of development
- DC Comics is going All In on new story arcs for its entire lineup including Batman and Superman this October, but stresses that it's "not a retcon or reboot"
- Cobra Kai season 6 release schedule: when is part 3 on Netflix?
- The anime studio behind Attack on Titan is remaking a fan-favorite '90s show for Netflix, and it just got its first trailer
- "We didn’t make the game of our dreams": Splitgate 2 is a AAA FPS built to "last a decade or more" using everything the first FPS couldn't be, all in Unreal Engine 5
- 10,000-hour indie RPG goes free-to-play as devs aren't comfortable making "tens of thousands of dollars from people who don't play the game"
- Apex Legend's Steam score buckles after 41,072 reviews in 30 days leave it 'Overwhelmingly Negative,' as fans voice frustrations over recent battle pass changes
- Beloved action TV show from the 2000s is being brought back to life as a movie
- The Boys changes its season 4 finale title as Amazon issues trigger warning over scenes viewers "may find disturbing"
- New Beetlejuice 2 trailer is a a wacky, macabre joyride with Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder
- Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark compare House of the Dragon and The Rings of Power to their new horror movie
- Watch out, Dune 2 – Alien: Romulus is a new contender for this year's best popcorn bucket
- Absolute Batman heads up the first wave of a new Ultimates-style universe as part of DC's All In comic book line refresh
- Twisters star Glen Powell reportedly starring in a remake of a '90s cult favorite action movie
- Shadowrun and BattleTech's beloved strategy studio teases first new game after finding independence and suffering mass layoffs in 2023
- The Alien TV show we’ve all been waiting for has wrapped filming, with Noah Hawley promising "something special"
- 3 streams, 8 hours, and 136 attempts later, veteran Elden Ring DLC streamer beats Messmer on PS5 and PC at the same time using a controller and a dance pad
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's new raid ranked among the MMO's best as fans praise its "neat twists on mechanics" and "amazing f***ing music"
- Knives Out 3 star praises "rare director" Rian Johnson as she teases the Daniel Craig-led sequel
- After five years in development, lead behind the massive Fallout London mod says "If it’s an awful launch then we’ll probably all just go to sleep"
- Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy maestro Tetsuya Nomura has a "huge number of game proposals" and probably countless zipper-infested protags "lying dormant"
- Over 7 years since its launch and with a new console on the horizon, Nintendo is finally releasing a Switch accessory that you'd think would have been available from the start
- The Acolyte's big new arrival is already the focus of Sith theories
- We're down to the final survivor of the Nintendo Wii U and 3DS online shutdown, as the last connected player keeps on trucking on dead Mario Kart 7 servers over 100 days later
- BioWare legend says "super" Dragon Age: The Veilguard fans making "a lot of really educated guesses" probably know more about the RPG than they think
- Assassin's Creed Shadows romance will boast "more developed relationships" for Naoe and Yasuke, says Ubisoft lead
- Prime Day has heaps of great PS5 games for under AU$40 - here’s what I’d grab
- July 17
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- To celebrate Prime Day ending, I'm off to live in the woods with this discounted portable Blu-ray player
- The upscaler I use for all my retro consoles just got Prime Day'd
- Even after the Baldur's Gate RPGs, BioWare vet says Dragon Age: The Veilguard was when the dev "finally said out loud" it's best at "telling stories through characters"
- You can get the best game on PS5 for $30 right now thanks to Prime Day
- Hideo Kojima says it was even harder to explain his solar-powered vampire game than Metal Gear - and ironically it was raining on release day 21 years ago
- Manor Lords publisher announces a new city builder that sounds like a Disney movie turned into a colony and automation sim where "verticality is key"
- Avengers: Endgame directors in talks to make a shock return to Marvel to helm next two Avengers movies
- Sony apparently can’t stop leaking Helldivers 2 updates: new Warbond Freedom's Flame with "fiery weapons" and "cool capes" spotted on PS5
- Deadpool and Wolverine track list is revealed and it includes one perfect meta song choice
- No Man's Sky update 5.0 promises variety "that just wasn't possible before" and "things the community has almost given up hope on," still with "much more to come"
- Genshin Impact players get 1,600 Primogems for free thanks to a rare bug fix rollback after update 4.8 made the game's best DPS character feel worse to play
- I can't recommend these Prime Day D&D deals enough, and they'll be gone soon
- I'm hyped about this Prime Day retro handheld deal, and not just because it looks like a Game Boy Advance SP
- Venom star Tom Hardy details one of his next projects: a sci-fi comic book that sounds like Mad Max meets The Matrix
- Hurry! Prime Day will end at midnight - these are the 6 Nintendo Switch deals you don't want to miss
- You can "mess with" Star Wars Outlaws' GTA-style wanted system to make the "ultimate open-world playground type of self-imposed challenge"
- The Rings of Power showrunners tease the introduction of Tom Bombadil – and reveal a quarter of his dialogue is straight from Tolkien's books
- Elden Ring investigator bravely tries to explain Shadow of the Erdtree’s little wormy guys, finds little wormy legs we weren’t supposed to see (which I need you to see)
- This Euro Truck Simulator 2 mod is so realistic it's tricked people into thinking they're watching real-life footage of Japan's roads: "It took me more than 10 seconds to realize"
- How Star Wars Outlaws is trying to tackle one of the features I wanted in Starfield: a transition from the open world to space flight
- Fallout nominated for Best Drama at Emmys 2024, as Walton Goggins nabs surprise nod for Best Actor
- Made in 2 months, 40 minutes long, and only $2.70 - Among Us' indie fund has already financed a Steam hit that I can't stop thinking about
- Forget building, this is the DDR5 gaming PC I'd buy this Prime Day
- Elden Ring player discovers a bugged wall in a Shadow of the Erdtree dungeon that makes players fall to their deaths: "Thus began my villain arc"
- Interview with the Vampire is just the start – a dozen more AMC series are also coming to Netflix next month, including multiple Walking Dead spin-offs
- Sprawling survival game Light No Fire is "crazy ambitious," says No Man's Sky creator Sean Murray, but it's part of an exciting trend: "It's a lot for a small team"
- The TMNT movie spin-off show is inspired by Superbad and honors the original comics in a unique way
- Crunchyroll is making some of our favorite anime free for a limited time only
- Batman and Robin: Year One explores Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson's earliest adventures as the Dynamic Duo
- I thought my most-anticipated Zelda-meets-Ghibli game was already locked in, but now it turns out that this Kiki's Delivery Service-style adventure was also inspired by Wind Waker
- Nintendo's mysterious Emio teaser isn't a full-blown horror game after all, but the first new Famicom Detective Club game in 35 years
- I've always wanted to try this cult favorite horror board game, and it's had a massive discount for Prime Day
- Dwarf Fortress publisher isn't bothered about the cult classic hitting its 120,000 player peak again: "We're not here to make as much money as possible"
- After a historic success with Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Yakuza's dev will announce a new game in September
- No Man's Sky goes Helldivers 2 with new "combat-focused Expedition" featuring a flamethrower mech and hordes of bugs
- James McAvoy and Speak No Evil director James Watkins say their upcoming remake is "a lot less explicit" than the original horror movie
- Hello Games' Sean Murray wasn't teasing Light No Fire after all, but No Man's Sky Worlds Part 1 - a huge update featuring upgraded planets, weather cycles, wildlife, and much more
- The Acolyte's major lightsaber moment has sparked a discussion on Star Wars canon
- The Acolyte ending explained: Season 2, Star Wars cameos, and a major mystery revealed
- I can't believe my new favorite 3D printers have such big Prime Day discounts
- A witch turns to extreme measures to reunite with her lost love in this preview of romance comic revival Roxy
- New look at the Xenomorph in Alien: Romulus is earning high praise from fans
- 10 years later, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs stand by original Kickstarter goals to give select players free copies of the RPG sequel
- After 23 years, Sonic Adventure's Chao Garden mode returns in an indie game with a zombie protag, cute pets, and Stardew Valley inspirations
- Netflix announces new horror TV show on the way from Stranger Things creators, and it already sounds wild
- Channing Tatum says he went to dark places to play his "psychopathic" character in Zoë Kravitz’s new thriller Blink Twice
- Iconic dev behind Danganronpa established his own studio so he could work unlimited overtime without bankrupting his company
- The Acolyte episode 8 features another ominous Anakin Skywalker tease
- Deadpool references Spider-Man for 0.1 seconds in the new Deadpool and Wolverine trailer and that’s made everyone desperate for a crossover
- Survival game hit Once Human issues 10-year bans to over 400 players for "using third-party software"
- Halo Infinite dev seems to hit back at rumors that the studio is abandoning in-house Halo development
- Hit city-builder Manor Lords is switching to Unreal Engine 5 soon, but its dev is being "careful about enabling performance heavy features" to help keep things running as "smoothly as possible"
- The Acolyte episode 8 finally answered a big Star Wars question about Qimir
- The Acolyte finale features a major Star Wars cameo, and it might have just made everything way more complicated
- The Acolyte has finally revealed its Sith master, and it’s a darksider that everyone saw coming
- July 16
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- I've been buying streaming gear for almost a decade, here are the gadgets I'd recommend this Prime Day
- The new Ultimate Hawkeye, Ultimate Cyclops, Ultimate Sorcerer Supreme and more are revealed in Marvel's October 2024 Ultimate Universe solicitations
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 dev confirms major leak spoiling "many of the surprises we worked to keep secret," but says the build is almost a year old
- I still can't afford it, but this RTX 4080 GPU gaming laptop has zero business being this cheap even on Prime Day
- Quick - this Prime Day lightning deal just hit a Nintendo Switch accessory I wouldn't dare play without
- Steam Next Fest's biggest city builder adds a new feature after "outright mad scientist-like" players kept trying to brute force it themselves
- Hades 2 Patch 4 is bigger than expected, with Supergiant pushing balance changes and bug fixes "we wanted to get in before our first Major Update later this year"
- Two amazing mobile controllers, two great Prime Day deals - I know which one I'd buy
- Elden Ring masochist uses one "horrible spell" for the most tedious Shadow of the Erdtree challenge I've ever seen by rolling into bosses a zillion times
- I revamped my PC audio with this sleek soundbar, and you can too for less this Prime Day
- Green Lantern: Dark will star "the most rotten, grumpy, and adorable Green Lantern since Guy Gardner"
- The hardest Pokemon challenge isn't a Nuzlocke, it's playing one of the RPGs in a language you don't speak with an absurd list of rules and exercising every time you mess up
- Deadpool and Wolverine runtime: How long is the new Marvel movie?
- You no longer need an Xbox, and this Prime Day Game Pass deal shows why
- M3GAN 2 has officially started filming – and Jason Blum announced the news in the creepiest way
- I'm tempted to turn the Asus ROG Ally into an RTX 4090 PC using this Prime Day deal
- Baldur's Gate 3 devs say you still can't make out with the "complicated" yet handsome Gortash in the RPG's upcoming patch: "Babygurl doesn't have time to kiss"
- The Rings of Power showrunners tease season 2's new characters, including a popular Lord of the Rings character
- Sea of Stars dev assures hungry fans that its DLC and co-op mode are "going well" and details will come this year, as 2023's best throwback RPG gets even better
- As Xbox shutters studios like Tango, Silent Hill creator says FromSoftware might have the "key to life" in the industry: "Not changing everything every time"
- New trailer for MCU star's next movie is part dark comedy, part obsessive psychological thriller
- Baldur's Gate 3 patch notes tease companion changes in the most Larian way: "No great work of art is ever finished, and so too is our approach to the art of snogging"
- From a gorgeous hand-drawn platformer to a steampunk action-adventure, 5 new Metroidvanias releasing over the next 3 days on Steam make this an excellent week
- DC SDCC 2024 schedule: panels on Batman: Caped Crusader, Absolute Power, the Harley Quinn animated show, and much more
- A Black Noir joke from The Boys was inspired by the real life actor
- Hitman 3 has "more surprises to come," teases developer IO Interactive
- The Last of Us star teases her character Dina in season 2: "She’s a light in Ellie’s life"
- Guillermo del Toro is full of praise for the year's scariest horror movie, as he describes Nicolas Cage as an "evil Tiny Tim"
- Spider-Man star's horror-comedy series canceled after just two seasons
- The Rings of Power season 2 opens with a dark flashback for Sauron, tease showrunners of Lord of the Rings show
- After "almost 2 years" and "over 800 hours," this Final Fantasy 14 legend has finally completed one of the hardest solo MMO challenges out there
- Baldur's Gate 3 modders say the RPG's official mod toolkit is already 'transforming' previously "tedious" tasks: "I'm no longer writing; now I'm painting"
- Silent Hill icon says Sony's desire for more big-budget games at Japan Studio was at odds with his "motive" to "always" create original games
- Gen V teases start of season 2 filming with cryptic tweet ahead of The Boys season 4 finale
- Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 7 won't be the RPG's final update after all, as Larian promises extra support including cross-play and photo mode
- Kevin Conroy's final Batman performance is an emotional, perfect farewell
- Legendary roguelike RPG's 9 years in Steam Early Access was possible as devs wanted a "positive lifestyle and great game, rather than maximum profit"
- Animation studio behind Netflix's Arcane reveals the one manga series it'd love to adapt
- Hitman lead says Project Fantasy is a "vibrant game," and hopes IO Interactive can bring "innovation" to the online RPG genre
- Indie devs tired of cloning resort "to just making fun of the guy" who flipped their crab-tivating Soulslike game onto the app store
- Alien: Romulus's chestburster scene was inspired by David Attenborough nature documentaries, says director Fede Alvarez
- Skeleton Crew director says that the new show will bring a "childlike perspective" to the Star Wars universe
- 2 years after ceasing development on its Portal and Halo FPS mash-up, Splitgate dev teases something new to be revealed this week
- One easily missed House of the Dragon moment makes Alys Rivers even more disturbing
- Bill Skarsgard literally threw himself into filming The Crow – including jumping into a vat of oil
- Years ago CDPR found a farmer who was remaking The Witcher inside The Witcher 3, brought him from Australia to Poland, and now he's working on The Witcher 4
- July 15
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- This is not a drill: Manor Lords fishing ponds are coming in the next update "since it was requested a lot"
- Hidetaka Miyazaki's reputation grows as an Elden Ring poster signed by the director himself goes for $12,600 and counting
- "Go and learn how to mod": CD Projekt lead says "half" of the people making quests for Cyberpunk 2 right now are former modders
- Call of Duty Black Ops 6 beta dates revealed, and for the first time it's happening at the same time on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC
- On a budget? Here are the Amazon Fire TV deals I'd check out this Prime Day
- The witchy vibes are sublime in this exclusive new look at MCU TV show Agatha All Along
- Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P cannot understand why people are hot for the MMO's new two-headed lizard: "The entire dev team was like, 'Huh?!'"
- I review SSDs, and these are the deals I'd actually recommend this Prime Day
- Over a dozen Genshin Impact voice actors lay into developer HoYoverse for more inexplicably "pale" characters after Natlan reveal: "You still got time to fix it"
- Alien: Romulus star Cailee Spaeny says she watched Sigourney Weaver as Ripley on repeat "for months" in preparation
- Light No Fire hype reaches fever pitch as No Man's Sky studio co-founder Sean Murray teases the internet with even more mysterious emojis
- Prime Day started early - these are the 8 gaming deals I'd grab now
- The Boys fans think Prime Video's latest video reveals a major Supe cameo in the season 4 finale, and it’s the one we’ve all been waiting for
- This clever invention turns any couch into a PC gaming desk, and its price has dropped for Prime Day
- Hurry, the Samsung OLED G6 monitor I'm testing just dropped even lower with only hours left of Prime Day
- After years working on Hitman, Project 007 lead says working on a James Bond game feels "organic": "It's so close to our DNA that it just feels seamless"
- Alien: Romulus star says the sci-fi horror movie has sequences that could scar some viewers for life
- Leaked Valve data reveals it's smaller than most AAA developers, let alone publishers – and The Witcher 4 seemingly has 5x more staff than the entirety of Steam
- 95 years after his debut, the mystery of how Popeye the Sailor Man lost his eye will be answered in the manga-inspired Eye Lie Popeye
- If you're struggling with Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss, don't worry – most of the OG bosses can't beat it even when they're scaled up
- Stranger Things season 5 confirms new casting and gets emotional first behind-the-scenes footage
- Twisters director says that James Gunn "lucked out" getting David Corenswet for Superman: "He’s going to kill it"
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard keeps a great modern RPG tradition alive, letting you progress companion stories even if you don't sleep with them
- Is Twisters a sequel or reboot? Director Lee Isaac Chung has his own take – and also shares reaction to Tom Cruise's surprise premiere appearance
- New trailer for Terminator anime promises a reinvention of the franchise from the studio behind Ghost in the Shell
- Meet the crew facing the perfect organism in these exclusive new images from Alien: Romulus
- Netflix finds its new #1 movie in a tense yet highly divisive thriller with a less-than-impressive Rotten Tomatoes score
- Giancarlo Esposito deepens the mystery of his Captain America 4 villain, by revealing no one has guessed the character's identity yet
- Longlegs pokes creepy fun at Despicable Me 4 winning the box office, but the horror movie still had a record breaking opening
- Elden Ring's Bloodborne-style overhaul mod is now compatible with Shadow of the Erdtree, so you can explore the Realm of Shadow with some familiar features and weapons
- Rumored BioShock 4 screenshot shows off some new powers and a very punchy-looking shotgun
- House of the Dragon fans have noticed a sweet hidden meaning in that big Jace and Rhaenyra scene
- The ending of Nicolas Cage's new horror Longlegs is inspired by one of the best thrillers of all time
- Concord gets an early seal of approval from hero shooter rival Overwatch, amid open beta praise for "solid gunplay" and some amazing sci-fi art
- Lego Harry Potter Hogwarts Express hits its lowest ever price with magic discount I can't resist
- Winona Ryder and Tim Burton met secretly to make Beetlejuice 2 happen
- 37 years later, Hideo Kojima says Metal Gear was so "ahead of its time" because of its portable radio, not its stealth-action
- Princess Zelda is Echoes of Wisdom's main protagonist, but Link will also be a playable character, ESRB rating confirms
- House of the Dragon season 2 episode 6 trailer introduces some exciting newcomers (with scales)
- Crash Bandicoot 5 was reportedly canceled, and a former developer says it'll "break hearts" for fans of the platforming series
- July 14
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- Baldur's Gate 3 won so many awards that it started to "affect development", forcing Larian to send "rotating teams" of devs to ceremonies
- Cyberpunk 2 director recalls that making Phantom Liberty was like "group therapy" after 2077's "crushing" launch
- Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride developer leaves mobile megahits behind with his new, Spelunky-inspired "lovecraftian roguelike"
- After making the best Mega Man-like in years and announcing a SRPG spin-off, indie platformer dev teases four more throwback projects in the works
- Cyberpunk 2 director thought he was getting fired - just before he was asked to help lead the RPG sequel and set up CDPR's new studio
- Baldur's Gate 3 CEO says Larian was "fighting with embassies" to relocate developers after closing its Russian studio in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine
- Trails lead doesn’t see hits like Persona 5 as "rivals," reckons it's "a good thing" that the West is finally "hungry" for more JRPGs
- July 13
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- Astro Bot almost went open-world, but opted for 80 planets instead because that led to "the most control over the game's variety"
- The Witcher 4 is "the most advanced" game CD Projekt is working on right now, ahead of Cyberpunk 2 and The Witcher remake
- Ken Levine says BioShock nearly went nowhere and was almost canceled: "We can't make those games because they don't sell"
- FromSoftware expert finds the studio's biggest dragon finally surpassed with Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's almost 400 meter behemoth
- Trails developer working on new IPs because making the same JRPG giant for 20 years is "like developing an online game" and "stagnates" the team
- Baldur's Gate 3 lead writer is "really curious" to see the CRPG series' future beyond Larian - but suggests that people should maybe chill out on the "spicy" fan art
- Is this Nintendo's mystery horror game? Maybe not, but it is an "extremely important" new Switch game from Silent Hill 2 remake dev Bloober Team
- Hello Games' Sean Murray lights the internet on fire with a single emoji that could mean more No Man's Sky, Light No Fire news, or nothing at all
- July 12
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- Former Pokémon lawyer explains how he tracked down a young leaker by calling his mom: "Absolutely baked my legend in at Pokémon for like 5 years"
- Old School RuneScape devs face loot-hungry MMO players after an endgame quest spits out worse items than an easy mob so profitable it became a bot farm
- Star Wars Outlaws lead wants you to know it's not just another Ubisoft open-world game: "We are hyper conscious of the Ubisoft house style ... Massive is quite unique"
- Genshin Impact drops a massive update 5.0 teaser out of nowhere: 9 Natlan characters revealed for the RPG, including the apparent Pyro Archon
- Lego Millennium Falcon hits lowest ever price, and I'd say fans need it in their life
- Red Hulk - Harrison Ford's MCU persona explained
- I've wanted Pokemon Black and White remakes for years, and this fan-made version inspired by one of 2023's best JRPGs makes me desperate to return to Unova
- Just days after a big patch, Lethal Company dev says he's "busy creating the best update of all time, gimme a couple weeks"
- The First Descendent isn't secretly messing with your drop rates, and Nexon is taking steps to prove it's not lying
- The future of action games looks a whole lot weirder thanks to Action Game Maker, a new tool from the team that fuelled cult classic RPGs like Omori
- In a moment of Honor Mode panic, one ice-cold Baldur's Gate 3 player unlocks an achievement in a way that would make most RPG fans recoil in horror
- Alien: Romulus bursts onto the cover of the new issue of Total Film
- The First Descendant hits 10 million players in a week despite rough start with 52% positive Steam reviews: "We will do our best to bring you great experiences"
- After 22 years, three cult classic Kirby-style platformers Nintendo refused to release outside of Japan are finally available worldwide
- Deadpool and Wolverine features a new side to Wolverine almost 25 years after Hugh Jackman’s X-Men debut
- Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds reveal the cut musical number from an earlier Deadpool and Wolverine pitch
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard skips fan-favorite Blood Mage class specialization because its "nasty" parts aren't where BioWare "want the hero to walk"
- Blindfolded Zelda Tears of the Kingdom speedrunner who beat the game in under 3 hours has a rare gift that helps him memorize video games, but there's written instructions if you don't
- Captain America 4 gets a slick, stylish first trailer featuring Giancarlo Esposito, tons of action, and Red Hulk
- 4TB SSDs are often ludicrously expensive, but this Samsung 990 Pro deal is only getting better
- The new LG OLED B4 is down to a record low price, but here's why I'd buy the older model instead
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev nearly lost its chance at the D&D license because its previous RPG meant its pitch to Wizards of the Coast was "really s***"
- The Acolyte showrunner hopes that two beloved dead characters have more of their stories told in Star Wars one day
- Once Human's cosmetics will soon be usable account-wide rather than per individual character, and refunds are coming for those who already bought them multiple times
- The Nintendo Switch snatches the NES' record as the company's longest-lasting console, with 2,688 days without a successor
- Ryan Reynolds says he's never been more sad to wrap a movie than Deadpool and Wolverine
- This beloved character from The Boys returned in this week's episode, but you may have missed it
- With Game Pass price hikes sparking debate, indie developers are rising up to remind us how vital the Xbox subscription can be "to the tune of staggering numbers"
- Stephen King pays tribute to Shelley Duvall, calling The Shining star a "wonderful, talented, underused actor"
- Once Human includes a feature every post-apocalyptic survival game should have – a piano minigame
- Alien: Romulus goes old-school with its marketing as the first full scene gets released on VHS
- Genshin Impact studio's new action RPG Zenless Zone Zero officially confirmed to be a PlayStation console exclusive
- The First Descendant plans to change icons that almost exactly matched Destiny 2 designs: "We have taken the concerns raised seriously"
- Deadpool and Wolverine's first 35 minutes debut as early reactions call it unexpected, bloody, and outrageous
- July 11
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- The fan-made version of the original Fallout 3, which is an isometric RPG that's way different from Bethesda's version, is now playable on Nexus Mods
- The new X-Men #1 explained: Everything you need to know about their new mission, new base, and new enemies
- The creator of one of my favorite offbeat horror manga says the series isn't ending, Google just decided it was
- 5 years from launch, co-op zombie shooter World War Z launches free update set in an apocalyptic hellscape that just so happens to be where I live
- James Gunn unveils official Superman logo that's both nostalgic and new - and fans don't know how to feel
- CD Projekt dev defends The Witcher 3's "overdone" Witcher Sense clue mechanic: "At the time it was really fresh," even if "we've kind of overcooked it" by the end
- Baldur's Gate 3 devs made the RPG for "a modern audience" including D&D newcomers, not just "fans of the original BioWare games"
- Netflix unveils disturbing first trailer for sequel to hit sci-fi horror movie
- "Don't bank on being the next viral hit": Manor Lords publisher urges other studios to "take care of all the devs" instead of hunting for their golden goose
- Elektra is on a collision course with the new Punisher in Daredevil: Woman Without Fear #1 preview
- The happiest dwarves in gaming get even happier as Italian dwarf metal band releases 5-minute anthem for co-op hit Deep Rock Galactic: "It's been on loop for an hour now"
- Green Lantern just introduced a brand new type of Lantern – and that could mean big trouble for Hal Jordan
- A 52-episode animated series based on classic toys was finished over 4 years ago, but even the creator doesn't know where it is
- Amazon who? Here are 8 Newegg PC deals I'd use to build a rig ahead of Prime Day
- Michael Keaton's Batman faces Michael Keaton's Beetlejuice in a new series of tie-in covers from DC
- Sony isn't doing anything with Bloodborne so one fan is basically porting it into Elden Ring – which it turns out is pretty hard, so they're also recruiting a modding army
- Mike Flanagan is bringing back a relic of the 2000s – the director's commentary – in the best possible way for horror fans
- I'm begging Final Fantasy Tactics fans to check out this hidden strategy RPG gem that was locked away in PSP prison for 18 years
- George RR Martin says a big dragon question will be answered in The Winds of Winter
- The first quest CD Projekt made for The Witcher 3 led to the best one in the RPG: "There are quests that are not that great, and we're very much aware of that"
- The Boys season 4 episode 7 recap and Easter eggs: Tensions build towards what's set to be a thrilling finale
- Aubrey Plaza gives advice to her younger self in first trailer for new R-rated comedy with great Rotten Tomatoes score
- After 20 years, one of the longest-running JRPG stories is "about 80-90% complete" and finally coming to an end
- Promising roguelike developer offers players a rare deal: grab and keep it for free "before it becomes a paid game" forever
- The Shining star Shelley Duvall dies aged 75
- Dev of "waifu sci-fi RPG shooter" says doubling down on fan service literally paid off, so now it's tripling down in spite of "criticism" from people "who are not players"
- BZRKR, Firefly, and Something is Killing the Children publisher BOOM! Studios has been acquired by Penguin Random House
- Ubisoft apologizes for using an unauthorized flag design in Assassin's Creed Shadows concept art, won't use it anymore - except for in its pricey collector's edition art book
- Still Wakes the Deep's creature movements were created by a "technical glitch," and they were so good it immediately "unnerved everyone"
- Martin Scorsese is a big fan of MaXXXine and the rest of Ti West's horror trilogy
- "I'm happy to lose": As Baldur's Gate 3 is dubbed the "Best Game" yet again, Helldivers 2 creative director admits he doesn't mind as Larian's D&D RPG is "one for the ages"
- The 400th edition of Edge features ten unique Astro Bot cover designs
- Forget about a GTA 5 movie - these fans are recreating the game's iconic cutscenes and Michael's actor just gave them a five-star review
- Baldur's Gate 3 studio CEO says that if he couldn't make a D&D game, Fallout and Ultima were the only other RPG licenses he would have considered instead : "There was not a lot to choose from"
- New body horror with near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score unveils its twisted first trailer
- Kevin Costner's big Western sequel pulled from theaters just weeks before its release
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree player finds the perfect way to shut down one of the final boss's most annoying moves, and it's all thanks to best girl Ranni
- Mike Flanagan is writing a sci-fi horror story for new movie in streaming anthology series
- After 11 years in limbo, acclaimed indie Cart Life isn't making a return as the award winning game's remake is "dead" and not "suitable for selling and buying"
- Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke joins as lead in one of our most anticipated comic book adaptations
- A shrewd Baldur's Gate 3 fan has discovered that the RPG's D&D spell tooltips might have been bugged for months, which could explain why Shadowheart never lands Sacred Flame
- The Kindle Scribe is cheaper than ever, and it's very tempting compared to reMarkable 2
- Baldur's Gate 3 writer labels Halsin's iconic bear romance scene a "watershed moment in game history," reveals the "Druid daddy" wasn't originally a romance option
- After 22 years, the 'most-delayed game in history' steals Duke Nukem Forever's crown by finally releasing on the GBA
- Helldivers 2 players completed their latest Major Order so quickly that many didn't even get to participate: "WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S ALREADY OVER?"
- The Acolyte creator says if the show continues, she has an idea on how to bring a fan favorite Star Wars villain into live action
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard director teases nudity and romance: "This is a mature RPG"
- Valve abruptly releases a new fighting game in the most Valve way possible: Inside a Dota 2 limited event
- July 10
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- Palworld dev finds common ground with Nintendo, dismisses use of generative AI: "Our artists draw thousands of sketches"
- 7 years since its last issue, the official Team Fortress 2 comic is back from the dead with a "completed script"
- With one day left in the 2024 Steam Summer Sale, don't miss best-ever discounts on RPGs like Baldur's Gate 3, Dragon's Dogma 2, Persona 3 Reload, and Cyberpunk 2077
- New R-rated animated Watchmen movie trailer follows Rorschach's uncompromising search for the truth
- Is Nintendo making a full-blown horror game? Because it sure looks like it in this surprisingly creepy teaser trailer flagged for "disturbing" content
- Sonic Team lead can't help himself, wonders "how have we gotten to 30 years with no RPGs" and hopes to make the forbidden Sonic RPG before he retires
- Actor behind Shadow of the Erdtree's best character, Igon, didn't know how big Elden Ring was, thought his lines were "incomprehensible," and says Miyazaki was a "mysterious figure"
- The First Descendant is being plagued by loot-lurking AFK players, and the community is demanding a vote-to-kick fix
- This 500-page Elden Ring lore book is so pretty it hurts, but not as much as the $1,100 price tag on the fanciest edition
- Star Wars Outlaws' directors discuss the technical demands of its seamless open world: "There's a reason why very few games do this"
- A new Star Wars animated TV show seems to be in the works, based on a Lucasfilm job listing
- Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver graphic novel The Dead Shall Rise is a canonical prequel to the classic action game
- Laughing then crying in the face of 1-in-8000 odds, the luckiest and unluckiest Pokemon Sapphire player finds 2 shiny starters at the same time and then immediately loses them both
- Rhaenyra's High Valyrian speech to Daemon in House of the Dragon season 2 episode 4 has been translated into English
- Elden Ring is finally complete: Let Me Solo Her finishes Shadow of the Erdtree as Let Me Solo Them, perfectly destroying the DLC's final boss with its biggest weakness
- Helldivers 2 CEO promises "our intent is to add more stuff for long term progression," and he's turning to the community for ideas
- James Wan celebrates the "end of an era" as The Conjuring's final film sets its release date
- 20 years on, Will Ferrell reveals Anchorman had to change its ending after negative test screenings: "We just lost the audience"
- Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield ride the highs and lows of a decade-spanning relationship in first trailer for R-rated romance We Live in Time
- Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a massive multiplayer mod that'll let you join PvP death matches, races, and more with up to 20 players
- Get hundreds of MTG Bloomburrow cards for their lowest ever price
- George RR Martin gives an update on Winds of Winter – and no, it's still not done
- One of Clint Eastwood's most iconic Westerns is getting a remake
- Creepy first Severance season 2 trailer introduces new characters and confirms release date
- My favorite retro handheld just dropped to under $50 ahead of Prime Day
- Survival juggernaut Terraria has officially outsold Super Mario Bros - and its devs waited 2 years just to flex its latest sales milestone
- Former World of Warcraft security expert defends survival hit Once Human's unpopular privacy policy: "fearmongering on social media is boring as s***"
- Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Noir series finds its villain – and they have surprise comic book movie experience
- The Long Dark creator apologizes to Manor Lords team after criticism of the hit city builder's early access cadence draws comparisons with his cult survival game
- Steam chart-topping survival game Once Human has launched to mixed reviews, but its biggest problem has been solved in the first hour
- X-Men '97 season 3 is a go, with What If writer replacing previous showrunner
- The Boys star "couldn't believe" Tilda Swinton agreed to play THAT character in season 4
- Palworld makes another play for Pokemon's crown with an anime and merch-focused partnership with Sony - despite the lack of a PS5 version of the hit survival game
- While Star Wars Outlaws will let you run and hide from the Imperial officers thanks to its GTA-style Wanted system, its director ominously teases that "there are Death Troopers for a reason"
- Sam Raimi is directing a new horror movie for the first time in 15 years and it's being compared to Stephen King's Misery
- As Once Human Terms of Service fuel a flood of negative reviews, the survival game's devs say they'll only ask for your government ID on special occasions
- The Acolyte episode 7 foreshadows Star Wars' future with a major Anakin Skywalker tease
- The Acolyte theory suggests Qimir’s Sith master was hiding in plain sight in episode 7
- The Acolyte episode 7 references the Great Hyperspace Disaster – here’s what that High Republic event is
- A key Star Wars concept was just referenced in The Acolyte – and it has links to Anakin Skywalker
- Alan Wake 2 director Sam Lake says "I love everything I have heard/seen" about Nic Cage's acclaimed horror movie Longlegs but can't find when it releases in his country
- July 9
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- Xbox confirms another Game Pass price increase and a new tier that doesn't include day one releases
- Two days before launch and a week after its reveal, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League season 2 gets delayed
- Destiny 2 goes for the nuclear option after time-gating players for years: Episode 2 will drop 6 weeks of content at once so you can play the MMO "at your own pace"
- Shrek 5 is set for a 2026 release date with Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz in tow and this is the greatest day of my life
- Why is Star Wars Outlaws the first true open-world Star Wars game? Lucasfilm says "there are only so many studios in the world who build games of this scale"
- Marvel's Wolverine dev is the second in 3 months to leave Sony and join The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk studio CDPR, is "thrilled to be getting back into RPGs"
- Fargo star joins Nicolas Cage in Amazon's live-action Spider-Man series
- Most planets in Star Wars Outlaws only take "4 or 5 minutes" to cross on a speeder – the size of 3 Assassin's Creed Odyssey zones stitched together
- You don't level up in Star Wars Outlaws like most Ubisoft RPGs – you unlock skills and upgrade gear by meeting "full-on characters" and completing their "adventures"
- Seconds after calling his run "sloppy," Super Mario 64 speedrunner sets new world record in one of the game's most notorious levels
- Hugh Jackman says Deadpool 3 exceeds anything he’s done before in his 25 years as Wolverine
- Classic RPG developer that helped shape The Witcher reportedly closes as two veteran devs appear to jump ship to their own new indie studio
- Tekken 8 is already cheaper than I thought it would be on Prime Day
- My favorite 3D printer from last year just got a ridiculous $300 price cut
- One brief moment in the Agatha All Along trailer is actually full of Marvel Easter eggs
- Iconic '80s toy franchise Sectaurs has been reinvented for comics as "Game of Thrones with bugs instead of dragons!"
- Hours before launch, hyped survival game Once Human reminds players about its seasonal server wipes "to provide a fairer, more relaxed, and freer gaming experience"
- Shadow of the Erdtree gives Elden Ring heroes 'Let Us Duo Her' a new way to wreck Malenia: Kick her into stun-locked mush for 35,000 damage
- Elden Ring is "maybe not quite" a JRPG, but Ys and Trails head says it's "difficult" to define the genre in general: "It can't really be described"
- Hear me out, this cheap $79 TV deal could be an essential buy for budget gamers this Prime Day
- Nicolas Cage's Longlegs look was inspired by botched plastic surgery, says horror movie's director: "Everything that was you is now f***ing ruined"
- After 30 years, Sega's beloved Zelda clone gets an overdue fan remake treatment, and while there's only "a few minutes of gameplay" I desperately need a full game
- The final trailer for The Umbrella Academy season 4 teases one last apocalypse and our first look at Nick Offerman's mysterious new character
- Love for Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's new freak Bakool Ja Ja gets so intense that Square Enix asks the MMO's community what's going on
- Apple unveils the first nostalgia-fueled trailer for Taika Waititi’s reimagining of an ’80s sci-fi cult classic
- Epic first Gladiator 2 trailer sees Paul Mescal fight Pedro Pascal, a rhino, and a Colosseum full of sharks
- Longlegs director opens up on working with Nicolas Cage in new horror: "It's like having a racehorse in your movie"
- The Devil Wears Prada is getting a sequel that will reportedly see the tables turned on Miranda Priestly
- Psychonauts 2 was designed as the "complete opposite" of an FPS, because Tim Schafer wanted players to leave levels in a better condition than they found them
- Twisters first reactions praise the "spectacle" and "adrenaline-fueled action" of Glen Powell's new disaster movie
- Genshin studio thanks players for 50 million Zenless Zone Zero downloads as it hands out free currency and promises to further optimize "each aspect" of the action RPG
- Metaphor: Refantazio and Persona studio isn't a "rival" to other JRPG devs trying to break through: "It's more a feeling of cooperation"
- Elden Ring dance pad streamer returns to beat Shadow of the Erdtree, 'deFEETing' the final boss in a 7-hour, 52-death marathon: "My feet hurt"
- Nicolas Cage teases his Spider-Man Noir spin-off show: "It's more of a Pop-art mashup, like a Lichtenstein painting"
- Longlegs star Maika Monroe teases "very unexpected and super interesting" sequel to hit horror It Follows
- Developer behind legendary roguelike Spelunky says games shouldn't get too easy too fast: "You can rob people of that experience"
- Helldivers 2's emotes can inexplicably save you from massive falls, and Arrowhead's CEO is begging for it not to be patched out: "Can we please, please keep this?"
- Tekken icon Katsuhiro Harada asks fans to stop sending him character concepts, because he doesn't want to be sued
- This adorable farming game is like a tiny Stardew Valley where you build your farm "inside a 90s toy," and I'm not surprised it already has 400% Kickstarter funding
- July 8
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- Red Dead Redemption meets Civ in the debut project from a team of strategy veterans, and the best part is the Wild West cowboys with French accents
- Beloved anime Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War lands long-awaited release date, continuing manga final arc adaptation
- EA announces Apex Legends is getting twice as many battle passes and you can no longer earn them in-game
- The Boys season 4 episode 7 trailer sees the Seven celebrating Christmas in July
- Steam Next Fest dev describes the "weird arms race" required to stand out from the hundreds of other demos in the seasonal event
- Satisfactory and Factorio: Space Age are launching 6 weeks apart from each other, and management fans are waving goodbye to months worth of free time
- The second person to 100% Tears of the Kingdom has nothing left to do, so he's collecting every rock in Hyrule
- First trailer for WandaVision spin-off Agatha All Along is a weird and wacky mix of the MCU and True Detective
- Longlegs director is so creeped out by true crime content, he purposefully avoided it while making the serial killer horror
- 5 years later, Mike Flanagan thanks Stephen King for his support on underrated sequel to The Shining
- One House of the Dragon character may have met a bloody end in episode 4, but their actor already has ideas for a potential return
- Cities: Skylines 2 woes continue with console ports delayed indefinitely due to missed "stability and performance targets"
- Madame Web star blames "internet culture" for the Sony Marvel movie flopping: "People just make such a joke out of everything now"
- The massive Baldur's Gate 3-themed Stardew Valley mod, Baldur's Village, will feature new stores, seasonal outfits, and more, and it's expected to start rolling out later this year
- Over 4 years since its announcement, BioShock 4 studio is "ramping up" as dev teases its "really awesome project"
- MaXXXine ending explained: How horror movie's final shot links back to Pearl
- Huge Witcher 3 mod offering custom characters with new combat styles and quests predates CD Projekt's own modding tools
- James Cameron pays tribute to Avatar and Titanic producer Jon Landau after his death: "I have a lost dear friend and my closest collaborator"
- Ryan Reynolds says Deadpool and Wolverine is the best movie he's ever done
- Helldivers 2 gets a new weapon, and players are just glad it's not the Anti-Tank Mines: "I would have straight up uninstalled"
- San Diego Comic-Con 2024 schedule: Times, dates, streams, and panels at SDCC 2024
- 9 years after Metal Gear Solid 5, no one can decide if one particular scene is a piece of classic Kojima genius, or just a simple olfactory plot hole
- First trailer for Brad Pitt's Formula One movie is giving big Top Gun: Maverick meets Moneyball vibes
- New House of the Dragon season 2, episode 5 trailer teases a massive shakeup for Westeros
- Elden Ring speedrunners are already making Shadow of the Erdtree look easy, starting from the beginning and destroying Messmer in under 27 minutes
- This fan-made Elden Ring anime teaser shows a greatest hits collection of the RPG's bosses, and it's out later this year
- Baldur's Gate 3 leads gather at the same place they considered how to finish the RPG 2 years ago to discuss "lift-off" for what's next: "Spirits are high"
- House of the Dragon season 2 episode 4 recap and Easter eggs: Dragon fire and big battles
- House of the Dragon star Ewan Mitchell on why Aemond Targaryen lives to the same code as Robert De Niro in Heat
- House of the Dragon star Ewan Mitchell talks Aemond and Daemon's rivalry: "There's almost a romantic element to it"
- House of the Dragon season 2 episode 4’s big battle is even more brutal in George R.R. Martin’s book
- House of the Dragon star Ewan Mitchell explains how Michael Myers inspired Aemond Targaryen
- July 7
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- Manor Lords publisher argues "not every game" needs to be a live-service, and developers should never be "forced to run until their mental or physical health breaks down"
- Cult Japanese director who practically invented the 'cozy' genre 20 years ago with Boku no Natsuyasymi is back with an open-world game coming worldwide this year
- Splinter Cell director says Hideo Kojima's auteur status is well deserved since "the result speaks for itself"
- Sekiro veteran beats infamous Isshin after 45 tries without running, jumping, or countering, and they're asking the FromSoftware community for other boss challenges
- After Fallout 4's update got the game-sized mod indefinitely delayed, Fallout: London team is now "waiting for the final green light"
- July 6
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- Elden Ring magician who beat the game with an actual saxophone has done it again in Shadow of the Erdtree
- Splinter Cell director says Metal Gear Solid's "clear rules" showed the team "how stealth should be done" and "set the rules for any stealth game"
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom engineer discovers Moblins are amazing at basketball if you give them a fancy hoop to play with
- SGDQ 2024's best run came courtesy of Peanut Butter, the good boy who spent nine months in training to become a world-class speedrunner
- Indie dev thought their puzzle game "would just die out," but "a weird sales curve" and TikTok virality led to "great" success a year after launch
- Elder Scrolls Online boss reckons "very few people" would play a Morrowind-style open world nowadays, as teams need to "support" two kinds of players
- July 5
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- Fortnite is making separate loot pools for Ranked and normal Battle Royale for 2 weeks, and players want it to be permanent
- Nintendo president says "action must be taken" against the inappropriate use of its characters so that its fans "are not made to feel uncomfortable"
- Marvel is closing out the current Moon Knight run by bringing back the original hero in a surprise battle with the anti-hero he'll be replacing
- Smash Bros creator urges other devs to launch their games with as few bugs as possible because patches won't matter if "your players have already given up on the game"
- First trailer for highly anticipated Witch Hat Atelier anime adaptation reveals 2025 release
- Nordic strategy game Viking Rise by IGG is collaborating with the hit series Vikings: Valhalla to bring some of the world's most famous Norsemen to the game
- Another Witcher 3 mod adds cut content back into the RPG, and this time it's boat races that have been lurking in the game files for nearly 10 years
- It's-a-me, a bargain: Lego Piranha Plant hits record low price
- Danai Gurira and The Walking Dead team are "actually chatting" about how they could do a musical
- Single-player GTA 5 DLC was canceled because it couldn't "out-compete" the "cash cow" that GTA Online had become, former DLC developer claims
- Doctor Who's Russell T Davies explains how Varada Sethu's cameo in 'Boom' led to her being cast as Ncuti Gatwa's companion
- After 800 hours, the most thorough Elden Ring player I've ever seen is preparing to start their "perfect playthrough" after trying "every build I can think of" while barely leaving the starting area
- First trailer for surprise Batman anime sequel features a bunch of DC heroes as you've never seen them before
- New Harley Quinn spin-off show is "Cheers with villains", says Kite Man executive producer
- Skyrim veteran says modern open-world games suffer since massive studios with "thousands of people" mean devs can't "take something and make it your own"
- Just how old is Qimir? One line of dialogue in The Acolyte has the Star Wars community speculating
- The Umbrella Academy showrunner opens up on the pressures of ending the beloved Netflix show, as he admits he’s known how he wanted to end it since the "very beginning"
- As if Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss wasn't hard enough, one Elden Ring player's attempt to call for help ends in disaster as their jolly co-operator gets killed before entering the room
- Captain America 4 gets a fresh look, and it shows off Anthony Mackie's new suit perfectly
- The First Descendant lead explains that the shooter's microtransactions didn't work properly at launch because too many purchases were made all at once
- Deadpool and Wolverine director says Marvel fans will lose their minds "ten billion" times over during the movie
- Helldivers 2 may be getting a Stratagem from the first game that Sony already leaked, unless Joel is pulling a fast one to introduce the Anti-Tank Mines fans recently passed on
- Deadpool and Wolverine star was inspired by Willy Wonka and a Quentin Tarantino villain
- Cyberpunk 2077 sequel director cites Baldur's Gate 2 as his biggest inspiration, with "five or six" playthroughs totaling 1,500 hours under his belt
- Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail players on PlayStation and Xbox get free game time as Yoshi-P apologizes for the bumpy launch
- Borderlands movie director reveals the first question he asked the games team and how his dog got him the job
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard has transmog for all the RPG's companions, and 'aspirational' armor so you can see what your Rook will look like in the "mid-to-late game"
- Ryan Reynolds told Shawn Levy he'd only do another Deadpool movie if he directed it
- Doctor Who boss opens up about that surprising Richard E. Grant cameo that made an obscure Doctor canon
- July 4
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- Final Fantasy's creator doesn't want to bring JRPG hits Lost Odyssey or Blue Dragon to modern platforms, but he does want to revive a decade-old strategy gem that was shut down 4 years ago
- You can't romance your Avowed companions because Obsidian didn't want the RPG's platonic relationships to suffer
- Baldur's Gate 3 streamer dials the RPG's most unpredictable D&D class feature all the way to 11, triggering a quintessential Sorcerer trick on every single spell cast
- Before Dragon Age: The Veilguard, one fan is archiving 15 years of BioWare's additional RPG series storytelling to prevent it being lost
- Fallout fan film creator finally gets to work with Bethesda after 13 years, as Fallout 76 devs accidentally nab his artwork for the MMO's July 4 celebrations
- OG Final Fantasy creator won't return to the iconic JRPG series again, partly because he might not "enjoy Final Fantasy 14 as much"
- Wild Super Mario 64 mod enables 16-player co-op with Peach, Yoshi, Toadette, and Daisy all joining the classic platformer
- Ms. Marvel leads the world's most unlikely superteam in an exclusive preview of Amazing Spider-Man #53
- Steam Next Fest's big strategy hit was made because its dev loves XCOM and played it for "hundreds of hours" - but also has "so many problems with it"
- Metal Gear Solid's 1997 reveal had dev behind rival spy game "despairing" because it did "everything that we were trying to do, better"
- Escape from Tarkov plans to counter cheating by giving in-game currency to players who successfully report opponents who are a little too good at the game
- Elden Ring devs suggest a fix for PS5 framerate issues, but an expert FromSoft dataminer says it won't do a damn thing to help
- The Acolyte showrunner responds to review-bombing of her Star Wars show: "I think it's pretty expected"
- As Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero's classic-style quick-time events are teased, fighting game fans fear for their controllers: "DualSenses are like 70 bucks I need y'all to chill"
- Mass Effect actor says he doesn't mind if you play as his female counterpart, because you'll be forced to listen to him anyway
- Who is Webweaver? The Boys' latest Supe, explained
- If you thought Tek Knight was bad in The Boys season 4 episode 6, he is way worse in the comics
- The Boys season 4 episode 6 recap and Easter eggs: an alt-right cocktail party takes a nasty turn
- Helldivers 2 gets a selection of excellent fleet upgrades, including one that'll reduce the cooldown of all Stratagems thanks to the power of paid bathroom breaks
- Barely 6 days after Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail's Early Access launch, devs line up sweeping job changes targeting the Viper's "busyness," the Monk’s "inadequate performance," and much more
- Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail reached "a record number of concurrent users" for a total the MMO hasn't seen since the release of A Realm Reborn 11 years ago
- Heat director joins Letterboxd and shares his 14 favorite movies – and, predictably, he has great taste
- Win a copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four companion novel Julia
- Win a Blu-ray of Night of the Eagle
- You're gonna need a bigger shelf, because Lego Jaws just arrived
- Hideo Kojima teases Tokyo Game Show appearance, and all signs point to Death Stranding 2 as Xbox skips the event and PlayStation returns for the first time since the PS5 reveal 5 years ago
- Soulslike veterans are being outmatched by the true Elden Lord: this 8-year-old who destroys Radahn on his first attempt at a "very low level"
- Shadow of the Erdtree fans feel vindicated after Elden Ring patch reveals a Spirit Summon was actually healing bosses: "Tiche really was healing the f***ing enemy!"
- Prolific Japanese outsourcing studio that's quietly worked on Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Resident Evil for over 44 years is in trouble due to game cancellations
- Original Sue Storm star would jump at the chance to reprise Fantastic Four role in MCU
- I've tracked down the best 4th of July gaming deals for you, from PC to tabletop
- Cult Amazon sci-fi series with great Rotten Tomatoes score canceled after two seasons
- Step aside, Butcher: Diablo 4 Season 5's PTR introduces Burning Butcher, an even more menacing version of the classic foe
- The Jsaux ModCase is one of my favorite Steam Deck accessories, but there’s a 4th of July deal on the Asus ROG Ally version that slaps
- Stranger Things season 5 is closer than ever as cast and crew celebrate being halfway through filming
- Star Wars fans might have figured out how the Sith will be covered up in The Acolyte, and it's bad news for Sol
- A Rey and Kylo Ren moment in The Last Jedi inspired The Acolyte, as well as one of the best action films ever made
- The First Descendant servers buckle as brief connection issues add to performance woes and microtransaction complaints from fans
- Elden Ring's busted Perfume Bottles and most overpowered weapon are no more thanks to a new Shadow of the Erdtree patch
- Netflix's Horizon Zero Dawn series reportedly scrapped after allegations against Umbrella Academy showrunner
- Rest in Peace, Wii U: Nintendo bids an even more-final farewell to its dead console after finally running out of the parts needed to fix them
- It's taken 11 years, but the Watch Dogs movie has finally started filming
- Helldivers 2 dev says "no new Warbond yet," reaffirming Arrowhead's commitment to slow them down and provide quality over quantity
- First new Elden Ring patch finally gets Shadow of the Erdtree's annoying Golden Hippopotamus off your back
- Check out a magazine to surpass Metal Gear as Solid Snake sneaks onto Retro Gamer's cover
- If it goes viral on Steam, it'll get cloned: Wildly popular banana clicker, currently beating Elden Ring by Steam players, spawns apple and melon competitors
- July 3
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- "It's a very hard thing to do well": Obsidian tips its hat to Baldur's Gate 3 co-op, but says Avowed will focus on the single-player RPG experience you expect
- Doctor Doom and Kang will drag the Fantastic Four into Venom War this fall
- Marvel's What If Season 3 is "the completion of a trilogy" and takes us to "unexpected" places
- New behind-the-scenes photos from James Gunn's Superman reveal first look at Hawkgirl and Green Lantern
- The new creative team of Amazing Spider-Man is planning his death, 8 times over
- Final Fantasy creator says his Final Fantasy 14 habit got so bad "on rare occasion" that some of his employees would hop on the MMO to DM him about missed meetings
- Baldur's Gate 3 made D&D's lead designer change one of the RPG's deadliest NPC-killers because it was "excruciating" to use
- MaXXXine director says he relates to Elizabeth Debicki's cutthroat character "more than he'd like" as she compares the fictional director to him
- 21 years later, a long-lost Iron Man game surfaces online thanks to a former dev: "It really was looking great"
- Batman: Full Moon is an R-rated "tale of pain and redemption" that sees Bruce Wayne battle a werewolf
- Veteran Tekken icon tells disgruntled fans he's going to charge them for game design lectures if they keep assuming he hates their mains
- Despite calls for awards like the Oscars to recognize horror films, MaXXXine director Ti West isn't sure it's necessary
- The most terrifying bug in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is this one that makes the final boss spawn twice
- Grab the excellent Atari 400 Mini for a record-low price and spend the 4th of July playing retro classics
- Avowed devs were always going to fix the RPG's combat, but mixed feedback made it clear that polishing it up had become "a big deal"
- The MaXXXine team reveal why they see the character as a "superhero" in their horror sequel
- FPS legend Shroud shocked to pick up a four-piece in new Valorant-style hero shooter FragPunk thanks to its ricocheting sniper bullets perk
- Nintendo says it doesn't need generative AI to make games because it has "decades of know-how" and doesn't want any "issues with intellectual property rights"
- Hugh Jackman recalls Kevin Feige's kind gesture after his disastrous first Wolverine audition
- Starfield modders' plan to make an Elder Scrolls planet containing Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind "was genuine," but it's still scrapped due to "the community's reaction"
- Deadpool and Wolverine's Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman reveal they're working on a non-superhero movie together
- Deadpool and Wolverine director says to expect "a lot" of cameos as another X-Men character seemingly revealed
- Mia Goth talks filming new horror movie MaXXXine at the iconic Pyscho house: "One of the coolest days I’ve had on set"
- Marvel's new Black Panther spin-off will tie into the MCU "more than any other" animated show
- Marvel producer teases that the upcoming Agatha spin-off show is "really scary" and will leave viewers "crying"
- The MCU Daredevil reboot will change characters in a big way, as Marvel producer compares it to X-Men '97: "It's taking it in a new direction"
- The son of the late Christopher Reeve will play a role in James Gunn's Superman
- Fallout 76's infamously rare masks get even harder to find as Bethesda adds a whole bunch more and the drop rate plummets to 0.238%
- One of Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool 3 pitches had a $5 million budget and no special effects
- Dark Souls 2's most infamous area puts a stop to a FromSoftware no-hit level 1 God Run, as streamer's valiant marathon is "ended by memes"
- Grape news: Final Fantasy 14's beloved low-poly grapes are still appropriately polygonal after the MMO's huge graphics update
- 10,000 reviews, 90% positive on Steam, and only $5 - viral hit Chained Together uses the power of co-op to ruin up to four friendships at once
- Zenless Zone Zero release time – countdown to the Genshin Impact studio's new action RPG is on
- No, that isn’t the planet from The Last Jedi in latest episode of The Acolyte – but Star Wars fans think they’ve worked out where it is
- PSA: This Final Fantasy Dawntrail sidequest features a spoiler for the MMO expansion's main story
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom evil genius creates a Lynel killer to surpass Metal Gear: the rock 'em sock 'em golem
- One small line in The Acolyte episode 6 may have revealed how Qimir knows Sol
- Helldivers 2 devs turn to the power of democracy as 84% of the community votes to finally add a feature that's been requested since launch
- Veteran Street Fighter and Resident Evil developer says backlash to Assassin's Creed Shadows is overblown because "it's a game, it's fantasy, not reality"
- Co-op looter shooter The First Descendant gets 3 days of increased XP and gold gains to appease fans after launch issues lead to 'Mixed' start on Steam
- The Acolyte makes a key Sith reference in episode 6, and it might explain the Kylo Ren Easter egg
- Star Wars fans have yet more theories about who Qimir's Sith Master is in The Acolyte
- Star Wars fans are suspecting one Acolyte character of having a dark history with Qimir
- The main villain in Star Wars: The Acolyte was partly inspired by naked Elden Ring players like Let Me Solo Her: "These people are f***ing crazy"
- "I was robbed of the fight": Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree player suffers an empty victory after the final boss glitches out and takes 32,000 damage in one hit
- July 2
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- The struggling studio behind cozy MMO Palia now belongs to the company that's still keeping EverQuest alive after 25 years
- Saga finally returns later this month with an all-new arc: "We’re especially excited to show readers where 12-year-old Hazel and her family are headed next"
- New behind-the-scenes look at One Piece season 2 reveals first episode title
- Microsoft confirms Xbox Live is down: "Some users have been disconnected" despite status website saying "all services up and running"
- The GTA 6 transition begins as GTA Online seemingly adds an easy-to-miss cosmetic from the sequel's viral trailer
- This is not a drill: Zack Snyder says the Justice League Snyder Cut is coming to theaters
- New Skaventide deal gets you a mountain of rats and Stormcast ahead of next Warhammer Age of Sigmar edition
- This popular fan-made Pokemon Emerald roguelike is getting a "soft sequel" today, with Gen 9 mons, multiplayer, and more
- "We want to make this game the hard way": Hollow Knight-inspired Metroidvania looks predictably sick, and with $40,000 it's fully-funded on Kickstarter, just like its inspiration
- The Sandman season 2 adds Game of Thrones and The Conjuring stars – and Steve Coogan as a talking dog
- Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail gets Stormblood comparisons after a "mixed" start on Steam, as players hope the MMO's new post-launch content can also bring it home
- You're not supposed to start Shadow of the Erdtree at level 1 with no gear, but one Elden Ring player proved it's possible with very careful planning
- Co-op looter shooter The First Descendant dethrones Elden Ring as Steam's top seller, but 43% positive early user reviews frame a rough start overall
- The Boys showrunner explains the heartbreaking reason behind Hughie Sr.'s superpower: "It was a lesson we learned on Gen V"
- Just when I thought I couldn’t love the Super Pocket more, Blaze went and announced an Atari woodgrain version
- Mia Goth teases Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming Frankenstein movie: "It’s everything I wanted it to be and more"
- Don't like Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster's new Frank West? A pre-order bonus will let you change his look
- Ridley Scott says he should have directed Alien and Blade Runner sequels but didn't get a choice: "You can imagine I wasn't happy"
- Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn has the perfect response when asked about preparing to play Human Torch in Fantastic Four
- One of the best murder mystery shows is now shooting season 2
- Helldivers 2 devs finally address widespread performance issues on PC with a possible new update "coming this week"
- A new Barbenheimer? Wicked and Gladiator 2 are now releasing on the same day, and everyone is making the same joke
- Xenoblade developer Monolith Soft has already made some of the best JRPGs of all time, but its representative director says its "aim for higher quality will never change"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows seemingly resurrects a cut assassination animation from a 12-year-old Assassin's Creed 3 demo
- Lupita Nyong'o says her A Quiet Place: Day One cancer storyline was "therapeutic" after losing Marvel co-star Chadwick Boseman
- Ahead of the One Piece remake, an anime studio head gives one reason why it’s going back to the start after 1,100 episodes
- Paul Mescal worked out so much for Gladiator 2, Pedro Pascal nicknamed him "Brick Wall Paul"
- Final Fantasy 14's Dawntrail early access launch turned a 10-year-old raid encounter into a bugged MMO super boss, but the community rallied to beat it anyway
- One of the year’s best action movies is already being remade by John Wick director
- Elden Ring's Rellana gets decimated by a viral clip creator who was so good that Horizon: Forbidden West's studio hired him
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard features a refreshing range of difficulty options for RPG "players of all abilities" - and no, none of them "are a cheat"
- Elden Ring now has a Bloodborne-style overhaul mod, so we can pretend that we finally have the PC port we've been begging for
- The Kylo Ren Easter egg in The Acolyte is "there on purpose," teases showrunner
- The Acolyte's Sith Lord was originally a season 2 tease, but the actor's screen test was so good that plans changed
- Beyond Good and Evil's 20th Anniversary Edition just makes the need for Beyond Good and Evil 2 even more pressing
- Resident Evil 9 is official and it's being helmed by Resident Evil 7's director, who says the series should "scare the hell out of you"
- July 1
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- Team Fortress 2 has announced just what it needs to win back players' favor after being ravaged by bots for months: A Funko Fusion crossover
- Cyberpunk Edgerunners creator's wildly unique manga where peoples' names give them special powers is coming to Shonen Jump Plus
- "Nerf inevitable": Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree players around the world are dunking on bosses using the DLC's absurd new dueling shields
- Final trailer for Nicolas Cage’s new horror movie with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score is the scariest one yet
- This gorgeous new Sega Genesis game is out of control on Kickstarter: fully funded in 19 minutes, and already approaching 5x its goal at $71,000
- First trailer for new Harley Quinn spin-off streaming series sees Kite Man deal with his dad, Darkseid, and a little bit of dog pee
- New trailer for twisty M. Night Shyamalan horror sees Josh Hartnett cause chaos and carnage at a pop concert
- Supacell season 2 release date, cast, and everything else we know about the Netflix superhero show's return
- Red Dead Redemption 2 jumps back into Steam's top 10 thanks to a Summer Sale discount that's one of the lowest-ever prices on Rockstar's open-world Western epic
- Indie game dev apologizes for having "stepped over the line with taking inspiration" from The Sims-style cozy game made by 'Asset Jesus'
- You don't need Scadutree Blessings to beat Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, as long as you're prepared to match this streamer's 516-death, 16-hour attempt at the final boss
- One Piece season 2 is now filming, and Netflix has released a special BTS video to celebrate
- Gladiator 2 will have a connection to Russell Crowe’s Maximus thanks to Pedro Pascal’s character: "This movie has an identity that is shaped by his legacy"
- Palworld dev begs fans not to argue about player counts as the survival game gets a boost from the Sakurajima update: "Palworld had 2mil, then it had 15k, now it has 140k"
- Cobra Kai goes global amid Miyagi's "buried secrets" in the first trailer for its final season
- The latest episode of House of the Dragon features a devastating Alicent and Rhaenyra parallel
- Hideo Kojima praises this new anime movie as one of the "most remarkable" of the past decade
- Hellboy goes full horror with first look at new R-rated film with a new actor stepping in for Ron Perlman and David Harbour
- Nintendo plans to beat the scalpers with the Switch 2 with one cunning trick - just make enough consoles from the start
- Gladiator 2 first look sees Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal lock swords, with an unrecognizable Joseph Quinn as a sadistic emperor
- The Boys' personalized ads joke in season 4 episode 5 was inspired by a real Amazon request, says creator
- Metal Gear Solid movie gets a promising update after years of Codec silence: "I think everyone's going to be really excited and surprised"
- George R.R. Martin denies the Elden Ring movie rumors in a way that makes everyone think it's definitely happening
- One of 2024's most beloved anime shows is returning – and the continuation's already got a streaming home
- Horror maestro Mike Flanagan has high praise for a supernatural show with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score: "One of the very best shows on TV"
- They thought it might not work, but the dev behind beloved Pokemon game's fan-made remake now says that adding its iconic commentator "is 100% possible"
- Stranger Things star says it's taking a "long time" to shoot the final season because it's "basically eight movies"
- Henry Cavill’s new Highlander reboot sets filming date, as director teases action inspired by his work on John Wick
- Demon Slayer reveals how the anime is going to end – and it's not with season 5
- Shadow of the Erdtree nearly killed Elden Ring's best mod, but while it's "not perfect," it's finally back to help you carve your way through the DLC with a friend
- House of the Dragon season 2, episode 4 trailer teases an epic, fiery dragon battle
- Netflix’s new number 1 show lands perfect Rotten Tomatoes score and comparisons to Marvel’s Avengers
- 9 years later, The Witcher 3 modders discover a brutal extended Yennefer ending that was cut from the RPG's climactic sequence
- Even Elden Ring legend Let Me Solo Her says Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss was "kicking my butt," but he's finally emerged victorious: "Now I rest for a bit"
- Shigeru Miyamoto wants Nintendo to have a hit the size of Breath of the Wild or Animal Crossing: New Horizons every "3-5 years"
- House of the Dragon season 2 has introduced dragonseeds – but what are they?
- One line in House of the Dragon season 2, episode 3 foreshadows a major book moment for Daemon
- House of the Dragon season 2 has introduced Alys Rivers – who is she and why is she so important?
- House of the Dragon season 2 episode 3 recap and Easter eggs: Prophecies and dragon eggs
- House of the Dragon season 2, episode 3 features a major cameo
- House of the Dragon season 2, episode 3 features a major Game of Thrones Easter egg
