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- December 31
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- The RTS genre "hasn’t changed much" says former Age of Empires developer, "you’re still playing the same game we’re playing 20 years ago"
- Cozy farming sim Stardew Valley has sold over 41 million copies as of right now, with over half on PC and almost 8 million on the Switch
- Ambitious Skyblivion project is nearing completion, with only one region of Oblivion left to remake with Skyrim's engine, but it still needs volunteers to help
- Hideo Kojima's Overdose hit a snag this year because "scanning and filming were suspended" due to the SAG-AFTRA strikes, but work on Death Stranding 2 continued as normal
- Severance season 2 will reveal more about the mysterious Eagans promises showrunner Dan Erickson, following that shocking Helly reveal: "I have a many, many page document that keeps the lore of the show"
- December 30
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- Star Trek movie star is "terrified" about how new film Section 31 will be received by fans, as he feared it “might not feel like Trek at all"
- Marvel Rivals announces crossover with Marvel Snap and other mobile titles
- Dystopian smash-hit Nier: Automata reaches 9 million copies sold
- I spent the PlayStation 30th anniversary using a mini PS1 that nobody liked, but modding has turned it into something special
- Solo developer behind The Falconeer and Bulwark explains why Game Pass is so great for indies: "If you get in it's generally a very positive thing for a dev."
- You can now play GTA 3 on a Sega Dreamcast. I'm not too sure why you'd want to, but you can
- There's a free version of The Oregon Trail where you start out with dysentery and have to make it across the country without pooping your pants
- A brutal Pikmin strategy allows you to beat the game with just three throws, but you'll have to commit some atrocities to do it
- After a tough eight-year battle, a series of new glitches completely changed The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker speedruns
- Wolf Man director teases his "100% practical" monster, as he admits "some people won't like it because they love the traditional wolf too much"
- December 29
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- Director of new twisty romance horror Companion explains why it wouldn't have worked without The Boys and Yellowjackets stars: "I can't imagine anyone else"
- The new free-to-play Ark mobile game "isn't just a port; it's a fully-fledged survival experience that rivals its console and PC counterparts" and has been downloaded over a million times
- Move over Manor Lords, this cozy medieval city builder is so good it "ruined other builders," and it's leaving early access very soon
- WoW Hardcore streamer receives $7k donation on one condition: he has to delete everything he owns
- Palworld's Feybreak update is clearly a success as the game just hit its highest concurrent player count since launch
- The Soul Reaver remaster's director was hired after creating their own fan remaster for free
- With almost 40,000 positive Steam reviews, dev behind this winter's biggest horror hit "never expected MiSide to be so popular" and will "carefully consider future plans"
- As Sonic the Hedgehog 3 tears up the box office, its writers now want to adapt The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: "We're putting it out there in the world"
- Yoshi-P and Hiroshi Takai jokingly clash as they react to Clive's lewd Tekken 8 outfit: "You OK'd this?"
- Godzilla studio Toho is adapting one of the Nintendo Switch's most popular games - a liminal space horror set in Japan's metro
- Squid Game creator says main character Gi-hun "will not be the man he was in season 2" once season 3 releases
- The original Kingdom Hearts was initially "more hardcore" until Square Enix toned it down: "We had some puzzles in there that would make you go, 'what is this, Takeshi's Challenge?'"
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth producer says the JRPG sold well, but future games "cannot be exclusive to a single platform" anymore
- I might grab this $99 gadget instead of a Nintendo Switch 2 next year
- The director of Michelle Yeoh's new Star Trek movie details how it's gone through "seven different iterations" over five years, with everything changing but two character names
- December 28
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- Wolf Man director on how his new horror movie was inspired by Denis Villeneuve's Sicario and Prisoners: "This isn't a fantasy, this is real"
- Metal Gear Solid's former art director once said he spends "a lot of time fussing over the details of the characters' backside since that's the side the player sees most in-game"
- After 10 months, 3 Game Awards, and the downfall of global productivity, roguelike hit Balatro reaches a new all-time Steam peak
- Cut content for Final Fantasy 15 reveals developers originally had different plans for the game's final chapter
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was successful enough that Disney reportedly "picked up the phone and wants more"
- Veteran Yakuza dev praises Sega for not settling for "safe" games: "It accepts the possibility of failure"
- The reaction to Severance season 1 was so intense, creator Dan Erickson said he had to start therapy to process "all the wonderful feelings"
- The Remedy Connected Universe that ties Alan Wake 2 and Control is "just getting started" with no endgame in sight, says Sam Lake
- After Astro Bot paid tribute to dormant classics, PlayStation's CEO is "looking at opportunities to leverage past IP"
- During the original Final Fantasy 7's development, the devs considered Tetsuya Nomura "the Demon King of retakes" - "He was always making the designers re-do things"
- Like a Dragon developer says none of us have figured out what its new game Project Century is about because "We didn’t include any information that would enable people to guess"
- Dune 2 director Denis Villeneuve bans the same item from his movie sets as Christopher Nolan because "everybody has to focus and be entirely in the present"
- Pokemon professor does the math to work out the most damage possible in each generation over the past 28 years, and the number is staggering
- Skyrim fan completes personal quest to yeet the entire RPG's map into Unreal Engine 5
- December 27
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- Final Fantasy 14 battle designer admits the team "vetoed some interesting ideas" for Endwalker fight mechanics "so melee players wouldn't be frustrated by periods of downtime"
- 20 years later, the first Trails JRPG is getting a remake because its developer doesn't know where to tell newcomers to start
- Despite "a rocky couple of years," analyst reckons Xbox's console war is "actually looking pretty bright" - "If you look at the PlayStation sales chart, you see a lot of Microsoft on there"
- Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza is longer than the last Yakuza spin-off, but it's not the dev's fault: "The volume increased by itself"
- "If we spoiled Arcane, it would have been heartbreaking": League of Legends spin-off Teamfight Tactics had scripts 2 years ago, and went to extreme lengths to keep them secret
- This PS1-style action horror game went straight on my Steam wishlist when I saw a ghostly samurai come out to parry the boss instead of just a dodge roll
- Metaphor: ReFantazio director wants to turn it into "Atlus' third RPG series after Shin Megami Tensei and Persona"
- In 1997, Hideo Kojima said the "one thing" he wanted to avoid in Metal Gear Solid was "tedious" cutscenes with characters "blabbering at each other for 4 or 5 minutes"
- Dragon Quest 3 lead Yuji Horii once said that the original JRPG "had to be four times as interesting as DQ1," otherwise "people wouldn't say it was fun"
- Helldivers 2 streamer is using the new cars to delay democracy and bring back the medieval sport of jousting
- Almost 100GB of classic Halo content has leaked online, including the 1999 demo from when the legendary FPS was in third person
- After winning big at The Game Awards and taking hours of our time in 2024, Balatro creator reveals their "most productive night" resulted in one of the game's most satisfying features
- The X-Factor team face betrayal and infighting as they come to terms with losing another member
- December 26
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- Squid Game season 2 post-credits scene explained: Does episode 7 have a post-credits scene?
- Squid Game season 2 ending explained: Who dies in the Netflix show? Will there be a season 3?
- This Nintendo Switch controller takes one of Razer's best features and costs $200 less
- Skeleton Crew is everything I never knew we needed from Star Wars
- December 25
- December 24
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- I didn't know how badly I wanted to grill and gobble up monsters until this upcoming survival roguelike made it look so tasty
- Planescape: Torment was a revolutionary RPG, but many of its devs had no experience with the D&D campaign it was based on: "What the f*ck is that?"
- 18 years after Guitar Hero 2 released, a streamer has completed the hardest challenge there is - perfecting all 74 songs back-to-back without missing a single note
- Elder Scrolls modders have released a playable part of the ambitious Project Tamriel, which aims to recreate all of the beloved RPG's regions in Morrowind
- Disney Plus' new Spider-Man show is no longer canon in the MCU because it was "not fun" to put limitations on its story
- Master Chief's absence from Halo Wars wasn't Bungie's fault, it was a move to make players "care about everybody else" in the RTS
- Atlus makes games like Persona 3 by "serving players deadly poison wrapped in a sweet coating"
- One of Sonic 3's writers threatens us with a good time in a future movie: "We gotta get Big the Cat in there in some capacity"
- This nifty gadget turns any M.2 SSD into a portable drive, but it's great for when you're upgrading your PC too
- League of Legends co-creator responds to report that Arcane was a "financial miss," says "people think we make things like Arcane to sell skins, when in reality we sell skins to make things like Arcane"
- After hours of number-crunching, one Marvel Rivals player has laid out the true meta – and Iron Fist's ranking feels alarming
- James Gunn says his DC shows will likely stick to the "one episode a week" schedule moving forward: "It affords a quality show an opportunity to be discussed"
- Just two weeks after its theatrical release, Lord of the Ring: The War of Rohirrim is heading to digital
- Escape the horrors of family time this holiday with Slitterhead's first ever discount
- Nosferatu should "feel like a love triangle" according to star Lily-Rose Depp, albeit a twisted one
- You might be ready for Elden Ring: Nightreign, but not as ready as this streamer who completed the RPG like it was a roguelike – 207 bosses, random items, and permadeath
- The team behind the unofficial Zelda Ocarina of Time PC port just modernized another Nintendo 64 classic, and the original creator is "very happy" about it
- Nosferatu's Bill Skarsgård was so happy to shed the Orlok character when filming wrapped: "It was an immense sense of relief"
- Warner Bros. is inexplicably delisting a bunch of games without warning, again, and devs are once again distraught: "We are heartbroken"
- Marvel Rivals joins Manor Lords, Palworld, and Helldivers 2 as one of Steam's best-selling and most-played new releases of 2024 despite launching at the end of the year
- December 23
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- Sonic 3 didn't relegate Gerald Robotnik to Sonic Adventure 2-style flashbacks so he could be "more of a present danger"
- The secret's out: Christopher Nolan's new Tom Holland-led movie is an Odyssey adaptation and a "mythic action epic shot across the world"
- Hideo Kojima offers another Death Stranding 2 update and a demonstration of his unique PS5 controller technique: "Building the game"
- Palworld drops a massive update that further distances the survival game from Pokemon following the Nintendo lawsuit, and fans couldn't be more proud: "Justice for Palworld"
- The Silent Hill 2 Remake director has pitched a Lord of the Rings horror game, and suddenly I'm hunched over growling 'my precious' at the thought of it
- Creature Commandos gets a season 2 as James Gunn bestows us all with a monstrous holiday gift
- Sonic 3 writers have their say on whether Robotnik is really dead and begin the Jim Carrey Oscar campaign: "The fact that the Oscars almost exclusively only focus on drama is a little silly"
- Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl's directors reveal the surprising influences behind their new "gnome noir" movie – including a Hitchcock classic
- After being labeled a Dark Souls copy, Black Myth: Wukong is now getting its own imitators on the Nintendo store
- Bill Skarsgård ended up staying "isolated" from his castmates when filming horror movie Nosferatu – but he recalls co-star Nicholas Hoult's kindness
- The Witcher 4 devs say romance will "absolutely" be a part of the RPG, it just has to be "super compelling and very meaningful"
- One of the best Yu-Gi-Oh anime series is getting a 2025 remaster for its milestone 20th anniversary
- Unhinged outtakes from live-action Balatro trailer reveal we could have seen Final Fantasy 16's Ben Starr gobble down a banana too many ways
- Sonic 3 writers admit that they did consider killing James Marsden's lovable Tom: "It came up... but would have been maybe a bridge too far"
- Sonic 3 writers say that Amy Rose nearly appeared in the movie rather than just the post-credits, revealing that they have a "great plan" for her future
- Sonic 3 writers talk that crucial change to Maria's death scene: "I don't think we can just shoot a little girl"
- "We're not interested right now": Original Dead Space creators say their pitch for a fourth game was turned down by EA
- Superman’s super dog Krypto may look all innocent in the trailer, but James Gunn says he is a "terrible dog" and is based on his own mischievous mutt
- Nosferatu star Willem Dafoe describes his "surprising" first reaction to Bill Skarsgård as Orlok: "It was something that we hadn't seen before"
- Jujutsu Kaisen's prequel compilation movie is coming in 2025, but we're still waiting on season 3's release plans
- Palworld's Feybreak update adds a built-in Nuzlocke mode to the open-world survival game - and a taste of next year's Terraria crossover
- A year on, The Finals is still the most exciting new FPS out there - here’s why
- Spider-Man 4 may include a Marvel heroine although Sony cannot confirm it will be Anya Taylor-Joy as Black Cat, says boss: "There’s a lot of fantastic female characters, but I can't talk about all this"
- Nvidia will apparently release the RTX 5080 in January, before the RTX 5090, and I'm okay with that
- Superman will "sort of" have a post-credits scene but it won't be similar to the "pain in the ass" story setup that James Gunn still regrets from Guardians of the Galaxy 2
- Nosferatu director explains why he wanted to keep Bill Skarsgård's Orlok look secret – and hopes audiences respect it
- December 22
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- This handheld is the same size as an NES controller, but I use it to play 30 years worth of retro classics
- All Steam users only spent 15% of their time this year playing games that actually came out in 2024
- The devs behind "the biggest PC strategy game on the market" say their main aim is "to be everyone's second favorite game"
- World of Warcraft director says last year's Hardcore release was a better version of classic WoW than WoW Classic was
- 17 years before unleashing Quiet on the world in Metal Gear Solid 5, Hideo Kojima said he didn't want "dishonest" designs like "female characters with huge busts" in the series
- Arcane writer says "it was always our hope" to get a character from the show into League of Legends
- 20 years after its release in Japan, one of the best JRPGs in the Tales of series has finally been translated thanks to fans
- As the Switch 2 approaches, analyst agrees Nintendo plays a different game than PlayStation and Xbox - but "maybe not as much as Nintendo themselves might believe"
- This roguelike's basically Vampire Survivors, but you play as off-brand Clippy on your very own desktop
- Sonic 3 director explains the thinking behind picking those new post-credits arrivals: "It's always 'which character is going to give us something new?'"
- December 21
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- When making Kingdom Hearts, the "one thing" RPG icon Tetsuya Nomura "wasn't willing to budge on" was a non-Disney protagonist
- The Witcher fans in shambles after a new book reveals just how old Geralt really is
- Arcane writer shares where she wants to go with a new story in the League of Legends universe
- Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii revives another Sega arcade classic that's never been ported - a true Yakuza games tradition
- With Sonic, Persona, and Yakuza under its belt, Sega thinks making a subscription service like Xbox Game Pass would be "very interesting"
- Dragon Quest's creator says he's "never thought about retirement," while Final Fantasy's father reveals his next script is complete
- Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto found it hard to watch his own kids playtest Super Mario 64: "Geez, does this kid have any brains?"
- Civ 5 caused a commotion at a space agency its creative director used to work at
- There was "no version" of Sonic 3 that wouldn't include Live and Learn according to director Jeff Fowler: "The fans would hunt me down"
- The long-awaited next entry in the cult classic horror RPG series Pathologic is getting a free "prelude" game, and after 19 years we'll finally see the mysterious Capital
- December 20
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- Amazing Spider-Man is relaunching with a new #1 in 2025 with a focus on classic villains
- Geralt of Rivia goes head to head with a Witcher from another school in a new comic from X-Men and Flash writer Si Spurrier
- Oh thank goodness, the Fortnite rumors are true and Mariah Carey is here as a... 10-foot-tall Christmas goddess from space?
- After 7 years, the final Team Fortress 2 comic is finally here, wrapping up an 11-year saga with a touching tribute to the late voice actor who played Soldier
- There's a new Mummy movie on the way from the director of Evil Dead Rise and I just want to know if Blumhouse has called Brendan Fraser yet
- Marvel Rivals made Jeff the Land Shark so stinkin' adorable that the MCU is bringing him on as an official hero: "We're all Jeff fans around here. Man is he fun to play"
- Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa reflects on the one year anniversary of his debut as the Doctor admitting "I didn't quite realize the magnitude of what I was taking on"
- Hideo Kojima was told "games don't need stories" early in his career, so he read 300 books while making a single game to prove them wrong
- Wolverine relives over 100 years of brutal violence in Sabretooth: The Dead Don't Talk #1
- Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies teases season 2's "scariest episode" and a "big surprise" from the mysterious Mrs Flood
- Bloober's new sci-fi horror game looks like Silent Hill 2 meets Alien, the retrofuturistic gorefest I've always dreamed of
- The Witcher 3's Geralt actor spent just an hour delivering the most chilling voice lines for the baddest bonehead in Baldur’s Gate 3: "I was just like, 'yeah, please, yes!'"
- It took a whole team to put an end to this unstoppable Overwatch streamer's 210-kill streak in a Marvel Rivals tournament
- The cult classic RPG that inspired countless weird indies, including Undertale, is making a comeback after 16 years
- Stranger Things season 5 wraps as the cast say goodbye to the Netflix show with the cutest behind-the-scenes snaps
- DC reveals its full slate of March 2025 comics and covers featuring Batman, Superman, the Justice League, and more
- This new indie D&D campaign setting brings Studio Ghibli and Zelda: Breath of the Wild aesthetics and worldbuilding to the tabletop RPG, and I'm already scheming hard as a DM
- Years before Fallout 76, the RPG's co-creator had doubts about making a Fallout MMO because it "wasn't designed to have other players"
- Tekken 8 boss gives broken Tifa stans hope after Clive got to join the fighter instead: "It's not like we're only limited to one character from Final Fantasy"
- Christopher Nolan's new movie is so secretive even star Tom Holland doesn't know what it is, months after signing on: "To be perfectly honest... I don't really know what it's about"
- Market research firm says either Sony or Microsoft will "struggle" with their next-gen consoles as Nintendo will be "the clear winner"
- Jim Carrey talks his secret third behind-the-scenes role in Sonic 3: "I feel really graced to be trusted in those ways"
- Win Hellboy: The Crooked Man on Blu-ray
- Win Godzilla Minus One on Blu-ray
- One of the most enchanting games like Stardew Valley I played in 2024 just got a big new update, placing the medieval life sim RPG back on my radar
- Helldivers 2's mysterious black hole might finally come into play as Arrowhead tweaks its look and the new faction inches closer: "Helldivers, protect your holes"
- Putting beta feedback into action, Monster Hunter Wilds devs show off improved hitstop and reworked weapons that feel how you remember them
- Sonic 3 post-credits scenes explained: how many are there and how do they potentially set up Sonic 4?
- James Gunn teases the Superman runtime – and don't expect a The Batman-style three-hour epic
- Daredevil actor Charlie Cox says Born Again won't be "dumbed down" on Disney Plus and in "some ways" it's "even darker" than the original Netflix series
- As the Nintendo Switch 2 nears its big reveal, 'leaks' of the new console are at an all-time high - and they're more convincing than ever
- Good news - Marvel Rivals is finally fixing its pesky mouse acceleration problem in next month's Season 1
- CD Projekt Red says its "ambition is high, crazily high" with The Witcher 4 as devs hope to "apply all the lessons learned" from Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3
- Will the next Lenovo Legion Go actually be a Steam Deck? It certainly smells that way to me
- Superman's first trailer features a hidden DC villain that required a James Gunn tease before anyone found them
- Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto "very much" regretted making Super Mario Sunshine so hard as it should be something that even "Grandma and Grandpa" can pick up and play
- Mufasa post-credits scenes: does The Lion King prequel have a post-credits scene?
- I've seen enough: Assassin's Creed Shadows will beat Black Flag as my favorite AC game as Ubisoft says it lets you "Naruto run" as the "fastest Assassin" it's ever made
- Marvel reveals its full slate of March 2025 comics and covers featuring the Avengers, the X-Men, Spider-Man, and more
- After 6 years, Frostpunk 2 dev's unannounced game is canceled because it was conceived "under very different market conditions" when story-driven games "held stronger appeal"
- December 19
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- Massive Stalker 2 patch starts chipping away at the notoriously glitchy game's worst problems, including over 80 cutscene problems and nearly 2,000 more bugs
- Batman V. Superman star Jesse Eisenberg thinks that playing Lex Luthor in the poorly received film "hurt [his] career in a real way"
- Preview Grant Morrison and Matt Fraction's one-page horror stories from Ice Cream Man #43
- Sonic 3 isn't even out yet but Sonic 4 is officially happening, racing towards a 2027 release date: "This is not a drill"
- Hideo Kojima originally had "no plans" for a character like Metal Gear Solid's Cyborg Ninja until Yoji Shinkawa's art had him saying "hell yeah, a ninja cyborg!"
- The Secretlab Christmas sale has arrived, and some of the deals are just as good as Black Friday
- One of the most iconic D&D RPGs ever made stood out among Baldur's Gate and Fallout as it was the "first" to make companions "feel like fully functional parts of the story"
- Final Fantasy 7's original director suggests Cloud should be proud of the JRPG's infamous love triangle: "What a lucky guy"
- As Path of Exile 2 sees new players fall to scammers' old tricks, RPG veterans step in to raise awareness: "Be careful, exile!"
- "We've been listening to the response" - Helldivers 2 is making amends with fans upset over crossover prices by giving away Killzone 2 items for free
- James Gunn explains how his Superman movie strikes a balance between Silver Age comic book aesthetics and modern storytelling
- This Xbox controller deal will give you a blue Christmas in the best possible way
- Christopher Nolan says Gladiator II is one of his favorite films of 2024: "Why are there sharks in the Colosseum? Because we demand them"
- Within just 1 day, Zenless Zone Zero devs pushed out a butt-obscuring update for the action RPG that got swiftly hotfixed after many down-bad fans came unglued
- James Gunn explains how All-Star Superman influenced his reboot movie, especially Nicholas Hoult's "badass" Lex Luthor
- James Gunn says the Superman trailer really captures the "essence" of the upcoming DC movie: "Optimistic but not without its darker moments"
- After 17 JRPGs across 30 years, Bandai Namco is gearing up to release more Tales of remasters "fairly consistently" and "as much as possible"
- 20 years of the Nintendo DS: celebrating the innovative handheld in the latest Retro Gamer
- James Gunn says Superman's been less popular in recent years, but there's a surprisingly simple reason his is the first movie in the DCU
- After the PS5 Pro's less dramatic changes, PlayStation architect Mark Cerny says the next-gen will focus more on CPUs, memory, and machine-learning
- James Gunn says he is bringing back that iconic John Williams score in Superman to "pay tribute" to when he first heard it as a child
- Epic Superman trailer features a bloody and bruised Clark Kent, the first look at Lex Luthor, and introduces a whole bunch of heroes to James Gunn's DCU
- Sonic 3 is the second highest-rated video game movie on Rotten Tomatoes – and what's in first place may surprise you
- One Piece creator and star of Netflix show teases the challenges of bringing season 2's Grand Line arc to life: "We need to shock audiences"
- Rescued The Evil Within and Hi-Fi Rush studio confirms it's making "games that only Tango Gameworks can make" after Krafton saved it from the Microsoft graveyard
- Manor Lords' next big update adds the city builder's first new maps and lets you build bridges to stop drunk villagers from drowning
- The Penguin season 2 looks promising, as Matt Reeves reveals he's talking to the showrunner about continuing the DC show
- Feathers McGraw's return 30 years after The Wrong Trousers wasn't the original plan for Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl but Aardman needed "something more villainous"
- 5 reasons why The Finals Season 5 is the perfect time to jump into the arena
- CD Projekt Red says Ciri is "faster, more agile" in The Witcher 4, but she won't be OP like she is at the end of The Witcher 3: "Something totally happened in between"
- Balatro creator speaks out as PEGI doubles down on its 18+ rating, "blaming EU laws" for the roguelike's adults-only categorization: "This sucks"
- Even Tom Nook couldn't refuse this record low Lego Animal Crossing deal
- The Steam Winter sale 2024 is live: here are the best discounts whether you're into horror, RPGs, open-world adventures, or indies
- Helldivers 2 leads say the game is fun because, yes, "you get to play as the bad guys" and "shout 'freedom!' while killing bugs"
- Sonic 3's writer thinks Jim Carrey deserves an Oscar nomination for his work in the film: "That's right, I said it"
- Sony becomes the largest shareholder in Elden Ring and Dark Souls' parent company, despite acquisition chatter
- Sonic 3 cast have their say on whether the threequel is the end of the series: "If you keep liking what we're putting out there, we'll continue to make these movies"
- Arrowhead CEO addresses Helldivers 2 Killzone crossover prices, admits this didn't hit "the sweet spot" and says "we will persevere and improve things in due course"
- December 18
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- South of Midnight’s nasty-looking, dinosaur-sized alligator boss already has the potential to become my favorite villain ever
- Here I was thinking I was neglecting my Steam library, but Valve's 2024 player stats prove y'all are only playing 4 games a year on average
- XDefiant just put out an absolutely massive patch featuring 3 new factions and more for a game you can't even download now
- Fortnite Mariah Carey Christmas crossover leaks, and it looks like the reveal will reference a fan-favorite meme she helped create
- After an overhaul that gutted Dauntless's core gameplay loop, devs of the Monster Hunter rival offer up in-game currency as an apology and a roadmap offering little of what fans miss
- D&D’s least-played class now has a much-needed upgrade for the 2024 rules
- The Sims creator's first game in over 10 years is an AI life sim that uses your real memories: "The more I can make a game about you, the more you'll like it"
- Superman's James Gunn explains why 'Legacy' was dropped from the title: "When you see the movie, you'll understand"
- There are "many very valid worries and responses" to Ciri taking the lead in The Witcher 4, but CDPR says "we're not suddenly making up stuff just because we want to"
- You could get Indiana Jones and The Great Circle on PC from $1 in Fanatical's Winter Mystery Bundle
- The two best-selling consoles in US history are officially both Nintendo, as the Switch bumps the PS2 down to third place
- After 16 years, a playable Nintendo Wii build for a canceled Star Wars: Battlefront 3 game appears to have been found, and modders are going to finish it
- Mufasa's cast thinks the Disney prequel could change how you watch 1994's The Lion King – and director Barry Jenkins has the perfect example
- Another critically acclaimed TV show with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score has been canceled - and this time it's a spy thriller starring Jeff Bridges
- The Ultimate Universe versions of Gambit and Kitty Pryde will face off against the Winter Soldier in Ultimate Wolverine #3
- Marvel's Paul Rudd and Wednesday's Jenna Ortega fight off a murderous unicorn in zany first trailer for new A24 horror comedy
- As fed up Marvel Rivals fans modify game files to disable mouse acceleration, NetEase "kindly" advises against doing so as "it may lead to unexpected issues"
- Pokemon streamer beats the hardest challenge the RPG offers after 4,000 attempts over 15 months, all thanks to the Flareon that could
- James Gunn shares another Superman trailer teaser, this time with a first look at Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen - and the perfect tagline
- RPG fans rejoice - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has returned to its lowest ever price in time for the holidays
- Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid lead Hideo Kojima once said "everything I make ends up feeling somewhat like a movie" because he'd "grown up with them"
- Superman director James Gunn explains how Top Gun: Maverick influenced the upcoming DC movie
- Marvel Rivals devs are working on cross-progression but "a lot of platform-specific rules" are getting in the way
- Mufasa director Barry Jenkins explains why The Lion King prequel begins with a James Earl Jones tribute: "It was impossible to work on this movie without thinking of him"
- Blizzard's 2024 stats expose your 480 million deaths, 1.7 trillion murdered demons, 8.34 billion hours played, and how allergic Americans are to the metric system
- As Helldivers 2 goes with Killzone 2 for its first official crossover, Arrowhead admits "we can improve how the Superstore currently works"
- "Persona is a story about growing up": Atlus lead reveals why the JRPG series always centers around a young male protagonist, but doesn't rule out adults or women in the future
- Superman star David Corenswet is responsible for those traditional trunks, convincing DCU boss James Gunn who was "on the no trunks team"
- James Gunn says there are "two little things" that set up the DCU's future in Superman, but don't expect major post-credits teases: "If something’s there just to set up something else, f**k it"
- Nobody at Konami believed in Metal Gear until Hideo Kojima showed them the exclamation point: "This is gonna work!"
- December 17
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- Elder Scrolls Online is done with "massive content updates once a year" and is switching to "smaller bite-sized" seasons in 2025
- Civilization 7 fans jealous of old man with wonderful flexibility beg the strategy game's developer to make him stop dancing
- Secret Level will keep adapting games like Armored Core and Pac-Man as Amazon's Prime Video renews for season 2
- The Conjuring director James Wan is making a horror TV show based on one of the best spooky indies of 2024 and it's a vibey survival driving game
- Fallout co-creator has made so many cult favorite RPGs, but he's not turning any of them into franchises for one very good reason: "The problem is the cult part"
- Beyond the Spider-Verse directors announced as they say they have crafted a "very satisfying ending" and "can't wait for fans to experience it": "We're bringing everything we've got"
- Mass Effect veterans' new sci-fi RPG Exodus gets action-packed gameplay trailer featuring gunfights with aliens and, uh, a giant grizzly bear
- New Green Lantern actor Aaron Pierre praises the "elite" talent working on Lanterns in James Gunn's DCU: "There's such a beautiful energy surrounding the project"
- Former Starfield dev says the space RPG "could have existed without those" surplus loading screens, with many added after he left production
- These Godzilla vs. Fantastic Four covers see Toho's King of the Monsters bring the pain to Marvel's First Family
- Valuable Pokemon TCG cards are reportedly being used to commit money laundering Poke Crimes
- After a "large percentage of people" questioned Barry Jenkins' decision to helm Mufasa: The Lion King, the director responds: "I think there is something to taking on new challenges"
- Helldivers 2 players celebrate victory after scaring new Illuminate invaders out of the galaxy, only for the creepy squid aliens to come running back
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth lead asks thirsty PC players to not make "inappropriate" mods after FF16's Clive got swiftly unrobed
- In a happy accident, one Indiana Jones and the Great Circle player discovered third-person mode, all thanks to a bug
- First Karate Kid: Legends trailer sees Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan team up as they pass on Miyagi's legacy to a new Karate Kid
- Sarah Michelle Gellar is more open than ever before to a Buffy revival – and the director of one of this year's best horror movies has already staked their claim on it
- A jailbreak launches an X-Manhunt for Charles Xavier in the first major crossover of the current X-Men era
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director wanted to add an "episodic story" DLC, but decided finishing Part 3 was the team's "highest priority"
- Jessica Jones star has perfect response to Marvel TV head saying he wants the character back in the MCU: "Let's do it"
- Citizen Sleeper 2 will pull a Mass Effect 2 and let you bring your favorite crewmates on missions purely for the plot, "most effective squad" be damned
- In a year of brutal layoffs and closures, Helldivers 2 gave its studio the "financial stability to keep going" and "keep making the games that we want"
- "New regions" are coming in The Witcher 4, though the map size will be "more or less the same" as the last RPG in the series
- Filming on One Piece season 2 has reportedly wrapped, which gives us our best clue yet as to when it'll land on Netflix
- New Karate Kid movie director says there have been "really detailed conversations" with the Cobra Kai team to ensure it connects to the Netflix series
- 22 years since its release, 28 Days Later is finally returning to digital after horror fans have struggled for years to get their hands on it
- Path of Exile 2's new update lowers the cost of respeccing, adds far more fast travel points, and turns skitter golems into walking bombs
- RTX 5090 will seemingly come armed with 32GB VRAM, and I'd be surprised if 8K gaming isn't a thing this generation
- Sonic 3 director says Keanu Reeves nailed the most important part of playing Shadow: "It was very clear to him what the Maria relationship meant"
- Sonic 3 is now on streaming, but not for everyone
- Gearbox lead wants Borderlands 4 to have less "toilet humor," says the thought of "skibidi toilet" and a gun called "Hawk 2A" in the game makes him want to "cry real tears"
- Despite Marvel Rivals players using Overwatch's worst meta and DPS mains refusing to swap, the hero shooter's lead says the team is "not considering a role queue"
- December 16
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- Memento star Guy Pearce says a Warner Bros. exec blocked him from more Christopher Nolan movies, including Batman Begins: "I think he just didn’t believe in me as an actor"
- Amid live-service flops, Riot co-founder says player expectations are "going up," while League and Valorant thrive from the competition: "We have to calibrate constantly"
- The Witcher 4 director on lessons learned from the "struggles" of Cyberpunk 2077's release: "It's a continuation of the evolution, improvement, and transformation"
- Jeff the Land Shark fans rejoice - You can get a free Jeff spray when you read the Marvel Rivals digital comic
- Caves of Qud co-creator's tip to tackle this sci-roguelike epic is also my tip for learning RPGs like Baldur's Gate 3: beef up and get a big ol' sword
- The first episode of James Gunn’s R-rated DC animated series Creature Commandos is now available to watch for free
- Marvel Rivals is getting a Splatoon mode and turning Groot into a Christmas tree for the holidays
- The Witcher 4 will bring back diehard fans' most favorite minigame since CD Projekt Red loves it too: "I don't think anyone will be disappointed"
- Dbrand has given us a closer look at the Switch 2 than Nintendo and I just wish Ninty would rip the band-aid off already
- Idris Elba was so dedicated to voicing Knuckles for Sonic 3, he recorded the lines while wearing Knuckles gloves
- 40 years after they were first published, the original ThunderCats comics are getting a lavish reissue
- Best Lego Christmas sales before shipping closes - here are 11 deals I would prioritize
- The burgeoning Intergalactic: Heretic Prophet community is in shambles over a hidden QR code and I don't even understand the most popular fan theory
- The Witcher 4 represents the story that CD Projekt Red wants to "tell the world," so no, the RPG wasn't influenced by the Netflix series
- Astro Bot finally gets a Square Enix character, but it's Gex and not Final Fantasy 7's Cloud
- Elden Ring is officially FromSoftware's most popular game — it outsold the developer's entire Dark Souls series by 2 million copies
- Cullen Bunn has an ace up his sleeve with Arcana Royale – a new high stakes supernatural thriller set in the world of gambling
- Hideo Kojima was ready to quit the "passive-aggressive resistance" Konami before he even made Metal Gear: "Do I have to start beating people up?"
- Final Fantasy 14 lead says if the MMO could have any collab, he'd want a League of Legends one: "A crossover with them would be a dream come true"
- Jim Carrey used to shun sequels to "move on and do something new" but changed his mind when playing Robotnik in the Sonic movies: "I'd like to have a character that I could sit with for a bit"
- Ryan Reynolds says joining the Avengers will be the end of Deadpool as "his ultimate dream is to be accepted"
- James Gunn shares new look at Superman with first poster and teaser for official trailer
- Balatro's creator hits out at EA Sports FC as the roguelike gets rated 18+: "I should add microtransactions/loot boxes/real gambling to lower that rating"
- The new Borderlands 4 trailer's hidden messages have already been decoded, leaving the community with yet another riddle
- Sonic 3 director Jeff Fowler pays tribute to 2005's Shadow the Hedgehog by putting sequences inspired by the bullet-heavy platformer into the threequel
- I've been a Sonic fan for 30 years so I definitely wouldn't pass up these PS5 deals
- Hit Apple TV Plus show Silo gets renewed for two final seasons to tell the complete story of Hugh Howey’s sci-fi book series
- As Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet locks comments on its trailer, Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says 2025 and beyond will be an "extremely tough time to ship a game"
- Ubisoft had to "retool" the mobile game lore for Assassin's Creed Shadows, with a brand new modern narrative that "will develop over time"
- RTX 5060 specs have finally leaked, and the budget PC player in me is disappointed
- After an eventful year, Helldivers 2 devs hope "it will be less of a bumpy road when it comes to release accuracy" - but Arrowhead is still "prepared to take risks"
- Sony reportedly could have used Tom Holland’s Spider-Man in its Spider-Man Universe movies all along, but wanted to focus on the villains instead
- Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann says Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is about "what happens when you put your faith in different institutions"
- Bad news, webheads: Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse reportedly has "no plans" to release in 2025
- Marvel Rivals director on Helldivers 2 nerfs and how a little "psychology" could help us cope: "sometimes it's good to frustrate the player"
- Yes, The Witcher 4 might really look like it does in the RPG's new cinematic trailer: "It represents a look that we're targeting"
- Idris Elba wants him and Keanu Reeves to make a Cyberpunk 2077 movie a reality: "Let's speak that into existence"
- December 15
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- With games like GTA 6 and Monster Hunter Wilds set to stuff 2025, Helldivers 2 lead says "it was super good we launched when we did"
- Beware of Helldivers 2's new vehicles - Arrowhead were trying to maximize "laughter-per-minute" with High Command's cars
- Final Fantasy 14 devs would love to do a Monster Hunter Wilds collab: "There are many fans of the Monster Hunter series within the FF14 team, and I am one of them"
- Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is one of the best-selling games in Bandai Namco history: "A nice surprise in a year that's been kind of rough overall," says analyst
- Core Keeper creators channel Terraria with a gorgeous multiplayer survival game "where every pixel is yours to shape, mine, build, or explode"
- After a year of PSN controversy, balance woes, and a 63-day recovery effort, Helldivers 2 devs say "we've been on a rollercoaster, but we're also in an extremely privileged position to be on this rollercoaster"
- The Witcher 4's Ciri sounded completely different because, yes, she has a new voice actor that "truly brought Ciri to life"
- Veteran analyst is optimistic about Switch 2, hopes it will "more clearly communicate how this is different than the Switch" than the Wii U did with Wii
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle might not be the end as Lucasfilm agrees "there's a lot of space in between the films"
- Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh want to do another movie together and already have an idea, but it's not Marvel
- December 14
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- Just like Tetris, someone's found Balatro's "true ending" by chasing a score so high that it actually crashes the game
- He's just like us - Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director "was so excited" about The Witcher 4, "when Ciri removed her hood, he almost stood up"
- Helldivers 2 lead thought it would bang, but not that hard: "We were prepared for having 150,000 players peak CCU"
- As the live service wars continue, analyst says games like Black Myth: Wukong, Palworld, and Helldivers 2 prove it's hard to predict the next hit: "All bets are off"
- Andrew Garfield explains why he returned to acting for his R-rated romance with Florence Pugh – and how it helped him "process" life
- Skyrim Special Edition accounted for 65% of all Nexus Mods downloads last month, proving that the wait for The Elder Scrolls 6 is nothing more than a skill issue
- Naughty Dog's new sci-fi adventure Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet was inspired by two of the greatest sci-fi anime classics of all time
- December 13
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- How did Ciri end up the star of The Witcher 4? CD Projekt head says, "well, there's the story of The Witcher 4 to tell that tale"
- Hayley Atwell and Chris Evans almost returned as Peggy Carter and Steve Rogers in their own movie, but instead they'll reunite in Avengers: Doomsday
- Meet the Spider-Naut, as Spider-Man is enhanced with the power of the Juggernaut in March
- As Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth finally escapes PlayStation prison, the JRPG's director says "I recommend the PC version" for the "improved lighting"
- After Concord and Suicide Squad's failures, Elden Ring Nightreign director isn't worried since FromSoft doesn't "base our game design" on industry trends
- Geralt will return in The Witcher 4, confirms CD Projekt Red - and yes, that's his voice you hear at the end of the RPG's new trailer
- Helldivers 2 director says the new Illuminate update is for the most hardcore players: "You can’t match everyone’s needs"
- After the success of Deadpool and Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are set to play middle-aged boy band members in a new comedy from director Shawn Levy
- The surprise first chapter of the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners manga MADNESS is available to read now – but there's a catch for English readers
- Turok: Origins devs are treating the series "respectfully" even as they take the FPS third-person with Space Marine 2-style co-op
- PlayStation devs on Astro Bot share their GOTY acceptance with Nintendo, the king of platformers: "We want to pay tribute to them tonight"
- If Baldur's Gate 3 left you wanting more D&D RPGs, you won't want to miss the sequel to Solasta: Crown of the Magister when it launches in early access next year
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has announced a fan event that will connect the "past and future" of the anime and everyone thinks a big announcement is coming
- Upcoming Jurassic World movie will revert back to the tone of Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park says writer
- Naughty Dog studio head Neil Druckmann gives a nod to the OG Last of Us announcement with his reveal of sci-fi adventure Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet
- Jude Law's Skeleton Crew character alias features an Easter egg that goes all the way back to a forgotten 1977 Star Wars comic
- Universal Monsters: The Mummy resurrects the undead fiend for a "horrifyingly romantic" new series
- The Finals Season 5 is the best time since launch to get into Embark Studios' excellent FPS - here's why
- Marvel star Aaron Taylor-Johnson jokes that he doesn't know why Elizabeth Olsen's Scarlet Witch didn't resurrect his Quicksilver in Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Slay the Spire 2 is another roguelike juggernaut as the deckbuilder reaches one million Steam wishlists, even before debuting gameplay
- The Witcher 4 trailer shows Ciri using a specific sword that all-but confirms which Witcher 3 ending is canon
- CD Projekt Red's decision to have Ciri be the star of The Witcher 4 was "the super right choice," that the devs made for the RPG sequel "instantly" 9 years ago
- Harrison Ford praises Troy Baker's Indiana Jones and the Great Circle performance, years after arguing "nobody else" could be Indy
- Final Fantasy 7 fans have been begging for Tifa to be added to Tekken 8, so they're taking the news of FF16 star Clive being added as well as you'd expect: "IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN HER"
- The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4010 is a budget GPU that can run Crysis at 80fps without compromise, but it technically doesn't exist
- Michael Bay wanted one of the Transformers to be "bigger and more detailed" so it was turned into a 52,000-part behemoth that literally melted an artist's computer
- Elden Ring Nightreign stands out among FromSoftware's raft of difficult RPGs by making enemies feel like "prey to strengthen my character with"
- The Horizon curse is far from over as PlayStation's Zero Dawn multiplayer spin-off might bump into Elden Ring once again in 2025
- The viral Cillian Murphy zombie in 28 Years Later has been debunked
- Following Fallout TV show's win at the Game Awards, the producer jokingly thanks New Vegas fans for "not burning down my house" and promises they will be "thankful" for what's coming in season 2
- Elden Ring's multiplayer spin-off Nightreign isn't what FromSoftware would "consider a 'live service' game," but that doesn't mean it won't get post-launch content
- If you thought George R.R. Martin was late with Winds of Winter, you won't be ready for the Game of Thrones mobile spin-off set during a season that aired 10 years ago
- Elden Ring: Nightreign ties the worlds of Dark Souls and Elden Ring together for the first time, as iconic Souls characters make their way to a new "branch" of The Lands Between
- Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann knows you're tired of remakes and remasters, but anyway, The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered is coming to PC next year
- Elden Ring Nightreign director calls the co-op spin-off a "short RPG" for how it condenses the base game into 40-minute rounds
- One-Punch Man season 3 finally gets a release window – and it falls on a significant anniversary for the superhero anime
- Mafia: The Old Country dev isn't scared its crime caper will be swallowed by GTA 6, because the two series have been growing apart since GTA 3, 22 years ago: "it's not something that we ever talk about"
- Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke calls out industry layoffs, "short-sighted" decisions, "arbitrary sales targets," and more in his latest Game Awards speech: "Change is coming"
- The Witcher 4 is set to be CD Projekt Red's "most immersive and ambitious open-world Witcher game to date," with a "brutal" world and "the start of a new saga"
- Borderlands boss Randy Pitchford hyped up the Borderlands 4 trailer as much as he could, but series fans feel burned by "bland" Vault Hunters: "They look so generic"
- Now that the Illuminate faction's arrived, Helldivers 2 is "finally the three-front battle of the galactic war" fans have been "waiting for"
- After 18 years, Okami 2 director Hideki Kamiya says he "didn't think the day would really come" where he'd return to the iconic adventure, but says the sequel is "a joy that cannot be described"
- The Witcher 4 devs explain why Ciri had to be the RPG series' next protagonist: "from the very beginning we knew it had to be Ciri"
- Will there be a Kraven the Hunter 2? Is a Last Hunt adaptation up next?
- Kraven the Hunter post-credits scenes: does the Marvel movie have a post-credits scene?
- PC gamers really ate at The Game Awards: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PC release date finally set for next month
- Elden Ring Nightreign network test coming in February, giving players an early "portion" of the unexpected "survival action" roguelike
- Naughty Dog's next game kicks off a new "franchise" with a sci-fi PS5 romp packing the studio's "wildest, most creative story" and "deepest gameplay" yet
- It took 18 years, but an Okami sequel is finally in the works at Capcom under original director Hideki Kamiya
- Palworld's big Feybreak update adds the "harshest" island yet this month, and it's 6 times bigger than the last one
- I didn't expect the Cyberpunk 2077 vibes in former Payday devs' new co-op heist game Den of Wolves, which just got its first gameplay trailer
- Elden Ring spinoff Nightreign is a co-op roguelike with battle royale and Monster Hunter juice, but FromSoftware says it's "not what we'd consider a live service game"
- The Last of Us gets yet another re-release as Part 2: Remastered heads to PC
- A 29-year-old PC racing game going cyberpunk anime with Troy Baker, Initial D drifting, and cutscenes from the Metroid: Other M studio sure wasn't on my Game Awards bingo card
- More than 50 million people played Overcooked, so its devs are teaming up with the No Man's Sky team for a "Luigi's Mansion meets Overcooked" adventure
- Like a Dragon studio RGG reveals its first new IP in 6 years: it doesn't look like Yakuza, and it's set in 1915 Japan
- After 18 years, Capcom's classic PS2 series Onimusha has come full circle because the new one that was just announced looks kinda like Sekiro
- 100 years after Super Earth saw them off the first time, Helldivers 2 brings back the Illuminate faction in its new Omens of Tyranny update, live now
- Splitgate 2 gets new gameplay trailer at The Game Awards, and the 4v4 portal shooter has never looked so ridiculously fun
- Borderlands 4 debuts at The Game Awards with a proper gameplay trailer showcasing the new Vault Hunters
- It Takes Two dev reveals new co-op game Split Fiction – it's out in March and you only need one copy to play with a friend
- We just got our first proper look at The Outer Worlds 2, coming 2025 - and Obsidian's RPG sequel is coming to PS5 too
- Ico and Shadow of the Colossus director Fumito Ueda's next game is about a boy and a mech, and it's predictably gorgeous
- FromSoftware's next game is Elden Ring: Nightreign, a "standalone" 3-player adventure coming 2025 – so was Hidetaka Miyazaki just kidding about no Elden Ring 2?
- First look at The Witcher 4 shows Ciri is the star but that sure sounds like Geralt at the end to me
- Shenmue lead Yu Suzuki has a new game coming next year with anime vibes cranked all the way up
- Deus Ex lead Warren Spector looked at immersive sims and "thought we could do better" – enter Thick as Thieves, a PvPvE "stealth action game, with a capital S and a capital A"
- The team behind stellar Metroidvania Blasphemous is making the first 2D Ninja Gaiden game in 29 years
- December 12
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- Doctor Strange seeks to become the Sorcerer Supreme of Asgard in his new ongoing series
- Godzilla celebrates his 70th birthday by taking on the Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, and more Marvel heroes
- Thor and Spider-Man take the spotlight as Captain America #16 marks the end J Michael Straczynski's run
- Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees creator Patrick Horvath's satirical sci-fi Free For All gets a range of awesome variant covers
- Lord of the Rings anime movie star Brian Cox feels that he has "somehow been avoiding" Tolkien until now, despite being "up for" a role in the live-action films
- Assassin's Creed Shadows devs "felt there was a stickiness in the parkour," but the delay allowed time for it to be fixed along with improvements to parrying mechanics
- Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool Christmas video has been unveiled – and it can't resist a shot at Henry Cavill's Superman departure
- The League of Legends MMO "reset" earlier this year, but Riot Games' co-founder says it only "dramatically increased the likelihood of success"
- One of the best modern platformers is getting a sequel that adds a "massive open world," thousands of outfits, and Dark Souls-style multiplayer
- Lord of the Rings anime movie actor "squealed" when she noticed an "insanely exciting" Easter egg in the War of the Rohirrim script
- Lord of the Rings producer addresses the "rumored rivalry" between The Rings of Power and the movies: "There is absolutely not and I don't believe there is from their part either"
- Move over, Mewtwo – Pokemon TCG Pocket is getting new cards next week in a fresh expansion, with a powerful Mew card that looks like it's going to dominate battles
- Baldur's Gate 3 developer says Google's failed game streaming service Stadia backed Larian into a corner where it had to use a "scary" dev tool
- Everything announced at The Game Awards 2024
- Path of Exile 2's latest patch is "build-destroying," and action RPG fans are now stuck with heavy nerfs thanks to astronomical respec costs
- Star Wars actor Daisy Ridley’s new heist movie gets first trailer, and it looks Die Hard mixed with Mission: Impossible
- Move over Santa - Woot still has black Friday-worthy Nintendo Switch deals perfect for the holidays
- Popular anime Castlevania: Nocturne season 2 gets new trailer and confirms release date
- New horror movie from the studio behind Midsommar and Heretic unveils its first look and plot details
- In an attempt to promote its own indie roguelike, one developer accidentally created an alternative to The Game Awards for devs who can't afford thousands of dollars for a trailer spot
- Jim Carrey would play the Grinch again, but only without the makeup: "It was an extremely excruciating process"
- A year after pitching the idea to DC, Mike Flanagan is officially writing a Clayface movie
- After 3 years, these Legend of Zelda fans have finally finished decompiling the code of Majora's Mask to help modders and speedrunners - but there's "still tons of work to be done"
- Kraven the Hunter debuts to 15% on Rotten Tomatoes, just a fraction more than Madame Web's bleak score
- Hours before Mafia: The Old Country's "full world premiere reveal," a trailer and summer 2025 release window appear to leak early via a YouTube ad
- Sonic stars in his own surprise Christmas special, and even Keanu Reeves' Shadow can't ruin the festive fun
- After Arcane and Fallout, Ella Purnell wants to "stay away" from video game adaptations in case she's typecast as the "video game girl"
- Diablo 4 DLC director is "sticking to my guns" on the dungeon you can't enter unless you have friends
- As Rockstar continues to give nothing away about GTA 6, notoriously chatty Vice City and San Andreas dev thinks "secrecy is a good thing" as knowing too much "ruins the experience"
- Marvel Rivals has a secret: Spider-Man is a certified cutie, but fans have only just found out after a dedicated player went into the files to discover what he looks like "under the mask"
- 5 months after the first Nosferatu trailer, we've finally heard Bill Skarsgård's Count Orlok voice – and it will haunt your nightmares
- League of Legends co-creator reveals the "ballpark" number for Arcane's real budget – and it's not even close to the reported $250 million figure
- After 48 hours and 729 deaths, Elden Ring sicko takes on the RPG's hardest challenge so far by beating the base game and DLC on NG+ 1,000 without getting hit once
- Marvel Rivals revives another classic Overwatch issue – insta-locking DPS players who won't switch – and with it the debate over whether role limits are a good idea
- My Talking Angela 2 Unveils All-New Fashion Editor Feature
- Dev behind new Doki Doki Literature Club-style psychological horror says it's not "for those with weak hearts," but with 98% positive Steam reviews, I'm not sure I can stay away
- Untitled Goose Game publisher is back and weirder than ever with a bizarre FMV game called Blippo+, and no one's even quite sure what exactly it is: "video is no game™"
- December 11
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- As if The Outlast Trials couldn't get any more deranged, the horror co-op game's big new update adds more tooth guns and lady who lives in the walls
- "We're obsessed": After quietly dropping the best trailer of 2024, bizarre-o strategy game shows off incredible destruction tech – "If you drive a car full speed into a medieval tavern, well..."
- Elvis and Dune 2 star Austin Butler to play Patrick Bateman in Challengers director Luca Guadagnino's American Psycho remake
- One of the least known Marvel Rivals heroes is back in comics as Luna Snow and her team return in their own title - but this time they're working for Doctor Doom
- The action roguelike I want most in 2025 is coming sooner than I thought: open-world game Hyper Light Breaker launches in January with 3-player co-op
- I've waited 8 years for American Truck Simulator to recreate my hometown and I wasn't prepared to see the 200-year-old tree my entire university mourned brought back to life
- Cyberpunk 2077 dev offers temporary beta branch so that Update 2.2 doesn’t make your mods explode
- Doctor Doom is emperor of the world – but the insurgent Iron Man is coming for him in "new, deadly" armor
- 8BitDo's latest Switch controller is perfect for a very specific type of player
- After 2.5 million sales, Manor Lords publisher says it "would almost be arrogant" to not be surprised by the city builder's success - but "you cannot count on it to repeat"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows adds a "canon mode" that makes choices for you, after fans spent years unsure of what RPG choices meant for the series' story
- First Sonic 3 clip shows Keanu Reeves' Shadow take on Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails in electric fight scene
- Path of Exile 2 is dropping loot more generously, but Early Access players are still being bankrupt by the action RPG’s high respec costs: "Why am I being punished for trying out things?"
- "We never would have made decisions that are so blatantly not player-focused": Ex-Dauntless dev "can't be silent" after an update under the dev's new owner "gutted the core gameplay and crafting"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows romance borrows the best part of Odyssey letting us choose "lovers, either for a short, sweet time or longer term"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' main story could apparently be between 30 and 60 hours long as dev says it's "comparable to Origins/Odyssey and Valhalla"
- Kraven the Hunter streaming speculation: When can we expect to watch the new movie online?
- Sony says there's no "major risk" of players choosing PC gaming over a PS5, even if the PS5 Pro is $700 and the base console got a price hike in some regions
- We haven't seen the open-world Wonder Woman game for 3 years as it was reportedly "literally nothing" when WB Games announced it
- Arc B580 leaked benchmarks suggest the Nvidia RTX 4060 should watch its back
- This is the perfect Christmas gift for any Tolkien nerd, and it's under $15
- Staff at FromSoftware parent company reportedly "thrilled" to see Sony in talks to buy them, but one analyst says the sale would be a "bad choice" for the house of Elden Ring
- Pokemon and Wallace and Gromit animation studio Aardman are collaborating on a new "special project," but it's a full 3 years away
- Marvel Rivals director reckons Concord flopped because it wasn't original enough: "I don't think anybody can accurately predict this"
- Kraven the Hunter called a "drag", "disappointment", and a "waste of Aaron Taylor Johnson" in first reactions to new Sony Marvel movie
- Henry Cavill breaks silence on Warhammer TV show and teases the amount of work that's already been put into the project
- After thousands of "Overwhelmingly Positive" Steam reviews, Caves of Qud dev says the roguelike RPG has done "100x better than anything we ever expected"
- The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim lands mixed reviews, but it's still higher rated than one of The Hobbit movies
- Sonic 3 stars Keanu Reeves and Idris Elba want to make a Shadow and Knuckles spin-off show – and they already have a fun title in mind
- Arcane star pays tribute to the hit Netflix show's fans as she says it was her "greatest honor" voicing Jinx
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' "core fight mechanics are the same" for both protagonists, but some enemies will be "more aggressive towards Naoe" and "fearful of Yasuke"
- On its 10th anniversary, Christopher Nolan reflects on Interstellar's continued popularity after watching it for the first time in a decade: "It was a very special thing to see"
- The Witcher 4 gets even more coin teasers from CD Projekt Red, sparking another round of theories from RPG fans on Project Polaris' plot
- A month after approving free versions of Unreal games that "started it all," Fortnite creator Epic shouts out a group of fan devs "for their continued support in keeping the legacy alive"
- After 17 years of work on D&D-inspired roguelike Caves of Qud, co-creator says "I personally have lost my mind and started posting about my dark desires to drop off the grid"
- Jim Carrey explains why he came out of retirement for Sonic 3: "I need the money, frankly"
- After pumping out Xenoblade Chronicles games for a decade and helping out on Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Monolith Soft is now fully owned by Nintendo
- Get hundreds of hours of RPG goodness for $30 with this bundle of 8 games that includes the first two Baldur's Gate games, which are absolutely worth playing
- Xbox teases "something little is coming," pushing community manager to immediately shut down handheld and "Xbox 720" speculation
- December 10
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- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 first reactions are in, and they're glowing: "It’s the closest Hollywood has made to a Dragon Ball movie"
- "It seems we've missed the mark": As their Steam review score drops to 14%, Dauntless devs wade into feedback after a disastrous update that gutted progress
- Netflix's new #1 movie is a sci-fi thriller that stars Megan Fox as an AI robot - and it has a pretty divisive Rotten Tomatoes score
- "It's impossible to not be cocky when you have a game like this": It Takes Two's Josef Fares is back and drumming up another Game Awards reveal
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 makes headshots deadlier while cutting back on weapon sway and recoil: "We will be keeping a close eye on sniper balance after this change"
- Benedict Cumberbatch is returning as Doctor Strange in Avengers: Doomsday alongside Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr.
- Pathfinder: The Dragon's Demand devs say Baldur's Gate 3-style level caps help make games shorter, because not everybody has "time for 100-hour RPGs"
- Cyberpunk 2077's surprise car customization update was co-developed by the Metal Gear Solid 3 Remake devs, lets you lower your wanted level on the fly GTA-style
- Everybody loves Jeff the Land Shark, Marvel Rivals' standout star, except the people who have to play against him
- Robert Kirkman returns with Invincible Universe: Battle Beast, a new ongoing comic set in the timeline of the original series
- As ex-PlayStation boss suggests consoles are becoming "irrelevant," veteran analyst predicts they'll become "more open," but "Nintendo will be the absolute last people to do that"
- The Rings of Power season 3 has a "strong" story as showrunners give an update on writing: "We're hoping to turn it around as fast as possible"
- Mufasa: The Lion King first reactions call it the "perfect prequel" and "a story that deserves to be told"
- The Rings of Power showrunners confirm "definitively" that the Dark Wizard isn't Saruman: "We do know who he is"
- Baldur's Gate 3 actor behind beloved companion Shadowheart says she's "open" to returning for another RPG - if it doesn't turn the character into "a cartoon version of her"
- The Rings of Power's Gandalf reveal wasn't decided until writing began on season 2: "It took a while for us to get there"
- Marvel Rivals gets its first post-launch patch, taking aim at bugs that were making players get stuck in various places and an overpowered Doctor Strange strategy
- Barbie director Greta Gerwig's "rock n' roll" Narnia movie for Netflix will film next year
- Deadpool and Wolverine reunite for a bloodthirsty tour of Madripoor in the print edition of the Marvel Unlimited Infinity Comic Slash 'em Up!
- As the wait for Switch 2 news continues, a possible leak has some Nintendo fans convinced a blurry image features our first look at the new console
- Andrew Garfield says he's "disappointed" he couldn't do Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, but Jacob Elordi "needed it more" than him
- Path of Exile 2 devs know the action RPG is "not rewarding enough," so a patch is making Rare monsters less stingy and introducing "'unlucky' drop protection" for the truly unfortunate
- One of the most weird and wonderful sci-fi mangas is getting a TV anime adaptation
- Marvel fan theories about Chris Evans's MCU return have already started, from Beyonder to Captain Hydra
- Disney scared Ryan Reynolds off from one of his Deadpool 3 ideas: "We don’t touch Bambi"
- A possible Cillian Murphy cameo in the first trailer for horror sequel 28 Years Later puts a horrible twist on the original's ending
- Secret Level's Pac-Man episode had one big request from developers: "We would like the audiences to wonder, 'What the f*ck did they do to Pac-Man?'"
- Over two years after it was first announced, Prime Video's Warhammer series starring Henry Cavill is officially moving forward
- The Bear star is joining the Star Wars universe in The Mandalorian and Grogu movie as a deep-cut Clone Wars character
- Borderlands 4's reveal this week includes "a lot of in-game footage" and "a sick, never-before-seen original cinematic sequence" that'll bridge the gap between Borderlands 3
- A mysterious Palworld update appears to make a change designed to get around the survival game's legal battle with Nintendo
- 28 Years Later gets a creepy first trailer as Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jodie Comer survive a zombie apocalypse
- Todd Howard "rolled his eyes" at the idea of Troy Baker playing Indiana Jones in the Great Circle, but the Bethesda boss later told him "you're doing a hell of a job"
- Captain America star Chris Evans reportedly joins Robert Downey Jr. in MCU return for Avengers: Doomsday, but it's not clear who he's playing
- December 9
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- The next Evil Dead movie has an official title, and it sounds like it could be even more terrifying and intense than Evil Dead Rise
- Dune 2 director Denis Villeneuve says a Zendaya scene was the moment he knew the film was working: "I did that shot and knew I had a movie"
- Publishers are reportedly waiting to see if GTA 6 is actually launching in 2025 before they set their own release dates so they can stay far away from Rockstar
- Analyst says 2025's GTA 6 and Nintendo Switch 2 combo is almost unprecedented: "I don't remember a year like this where so much of what's going to happen is focused on just two products"
- Horror sickos can wake up in Bill Skarsgard's bed from Nosferatu with this full-size coffin prop that costs $25,000 - now that's bang for your buck
- Dune 2 director Denis Villeneuve has perfect response to Josh Brolin saying he will "quit acting" if the filmmaker isn't nominated for an Oscar
- Dune 2 director Denis Villeneuve reveals his favorite films of 2024, from a divisive Netflix musical to Daniel Craig's latest feature
- The Last of Us studio Naughty Dog recruits former God of War art director as hype builds for its unannounced next game
- After the massive success of Deadpool and Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds says he sees the Merc with a Mouth as more of a supporting character going forward
- Keira Knightley had to "fix" her reaction in Love Actually's iconic cue card scene because she was acting too creeped out: "But it is quite creepy"
- Borderlands 4 reveal confirmed for The Game Awards as Gearbox teases the "first look at the most ambitious Borderlands yet"
- Open-world dress-up game Infinity Nikki is serious business – so serious its devs have already banned over 80 accounts for cheating: "We implore all Stylists to adhere to the game rules"
- The Witcher 4 may not have Geralt after all: his actor was "slapped by CD Projekt" for accidentally sharing a rumor that he'd be in it, just not as the protagonist
- It's only taken 3 days for Overwatch's worst meta to manifest in Marvel Rivals: "Games change. GOATS is inevitable."
- Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a surprise update a year after its once-final update, even after CDPR moved basically every dev to other games: "Sometimes, you want to do it ONE MORE time!"
- James Gunn clarifies that Superman is having "no reshoots": "Just a handful of individual shots to enhance the film"
- Lego Fortnite channels The Sims with a new mode that'll let you customize a house, get a job, and hang out with friends in an "ever-evolving city"
- Anime's biggest day of the year is fast approaching - expect updates on Jujutsu Kaisen season 3, the Chainsaw Man movie, and more
- Walton Goggins has revealed why he's "scared" to return for Fallout season 2
- Path of Exile 2 developer says "we are trying to avoid nerfing skills and builds," but as it sets its sights on a popular explosive build, players argue it "discourages creativity"
- 24 years later, the Star Wars Episode 1: Jedi Power Battles remaster is going the extra mile with new playable characters, and it's already nearly doubled the base roster
- From Nintendo Switch to PS5 to new PC tech, EE's Game Store bundles are the perfect excuse to bed down with a great game this winter
- Green Lantern star breaks silence on upcoming DC role, teasing the "extensive" prep he's undergoing to do the comics justice
- Kraven The Hunter director hopes that the movie is successful enough to lead to the adaptation of one of the most iconic Spider-Man comics
- Reacher season 3 gets first trailer, and it looks like Jack Reacher may have finally met his match
- Bored of waiting for GTA 6, devs make their own "satirical" GTA 6 that will "release before October 2025" on the PlayStation Store
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 will have many post-credit scenes, and fans are already predicting which characters will show up
- Former WoW and League of Legends MMO dev showing off new game today, but be warned - "We're taking Unreal Man with a bunch of store-bought assets"
- James Gunn hails Robert Downey Jr's Marvel return as a "great idea"
- New Severance season 2 trailer has fans wondering who mysterious character Mr. Drummond could be
- Arcane showrunner teases that future spin-offs could be focused on individual characters from the hit Netflix show: "We want to continue telling stories"
- Marvel Rivals celebrates a successful launch, with NetEase Games' Overwatch rival hitting over 10 million players in just 3 days
- After months of waiting, we finally have crumbs of info about Demon Slayer's Infinity Castle movie trilogy – including a 2025 release window and a new trailer
- Indie game marketplace Itch.io goes down as it claims Funko Pop company used "AI-powered" brand protection to create "some bogus phishing report"
- John Wick spin-off Ballerina star Ana de Armas says her character burns 106 people in an "insane" flamethrower scene that made her cry
- Invincible season 3 trailer teases darkness to come thanks to Mark's blue suit
- December 8
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- GTA dev says "day zero" patch mentality is bad news for everyone: "encourages poor development and management practices, and it's a worse customer experience too"
- Current holders of the ARPG crown congratulate Path of Exile 2 devs on release as Diablo 4 leads admit they're jumping in themselves
- 26 years ago, a legendary Japanese arcade studio created a whole new category of Tetris - now they're finishing their canceled sequel and bringing it to Steam
- Steam hits a record 39 million concurrent users as Path of Exile 2 and Marvel Rivals continue to pull massive crowds
- After Starfield's strict companions, I'm glad Avowed's crew won't be "backseat driving and second-guessing all your choices"
- Hideo Kojima seems to be testing Death Stranding 2, but it's not going well: "I fell asleep twice while on a delivery and ran the vehicle into a cliff"
- "My 5 minute game took me like 5 years to draw by hand": one dev broke 50 pencils to make this gorgeous "interactive illustration"
- As Monster Hunter Wilds finally approaches, veteran dev says making a new monster "takes about one year," and that's not counting "small, detailed adjustments"
- Marvel Rivals seems to make good on its DPS surplus as dataminers discover The Thing and Ultron in files
- December 7
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- PlayStation 2's GTA exclusivity came because Sony was "worried when we saw Xbox coming" and "it wasn't clear that Grand Theft Auto 3 was going to be as huge as it was"
- The new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles strategy game kills Splinter and Shredder before a moment of gameplay happens, all so it can tell its own story
- WoW veteran says the MMO's devs had to make "ten times the amount of quests" as originally planned to sate playtesters, and now the game has 38,000 of them
- Fortnite Ballistic is the battle royale's first 5v5 FPS mode coming in just a few days, and it's aiming for a piece of Counter-Strike's pie
- OG FF7 director says thanks to the remake "half of Final Fantasy 7 [...] is now owned by the fans"
- Almost every quest in RPG Avowed can be started in multiple ways: "We want to just constantly foster that sense of exploration, wanderlust"
- Monster Hunter Wilds director explains balancing plans: "Some weapons, like the long sword and bow, are too easy to use and overpowered"
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake director had to swap his inspirations from The Last of Us to The Witcher 3 to make Rebirth's open world
- Path of Exile 2 dev says it's fixing a bug that's partying up players with randoms, but for now "consider it a feature to enhance your social experience"
- December 6
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- Avengers #21 sends the team to a surprising conflict with the X-Men, which sets the stage for a whole new era for Marvel's two biggest teams
- Zenless Zone Zero 1.4 is giving out a free S-Rank Agent and taking another swing at its divisive TV mode: "We are neither surprised by nor dismissive of any feedback"
- Path of Exile 2 has nearly doubled the first game's Steam player record and people can't even play yet – and apparently SteamDB crashed when everyone went to check
- Doctor Doom and Rocket Raccoon come together to kick off J. Michael Straczynski's series of unlikely Marvel team-ups
- Harry Potter TV show will film in same studio as the movie franchise after release date is delayed to 2027
- Path of Exile 2 dev says launch is "relatively imminent" after "a last minute crash" leaves early access buyers waiting at the login gates
- Ben Grimm will clobber "every villain" in the Marvel Universe in his own Thing solo series
- James Gunn said they had planned 3 Guardians of the Galaxy spin-offs at Marvel that never happened - but they have his "complete blessing" to continue
- After 10 years, The Witcher 3's fan-favorite card game Gwent is becoming an actual, real-life card game with more than 400 cards
- Marvel Rivals debuts with one of the biggest free-to-play launches in Steam history after the year-long live service bloodbath that claimed XDefiant and Concord
- Stalker 2 boss thought bugs would bother y'all more and expected "much less success," still wants to fix things until it's a game "90% of people loved"
- One MCU fan has spotted a deep-cut Wizard of Oz Easter egg in Captain Marvel that you almost definitely missed
- Ubisoft reportedly in talks for yet more buyout consideration on the heels of another high-profile flop with XDefiant's pending shutdown
- Kraven the Hunter star Aaron Taylor-Johnson describes working with Russell Crowe on the Marvel and Sony supervillain thriller as "a dream come true"
- "Where did all the content go?": Monster Hunter rival Dauntless debuts to "Overwhelmingly Negative" Steam reviews as players rip into the action RPG's overhaul
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson says Marvel movie Kraven the Hunter may be R-rated, but it's a "family drama" at its heart
- Sweet Tooth creator Jeff Lemire will reveal "what it's really like to work for DC and Marvel" in a new illustrated autobiography from Dark Horse
- Fresh off Arcane season 2, Project K is a League of Legends trading card game, but it's not just a physical version of Legends of Runeterra
- Kraven the Hunter star Aaron Taylor-Johnson on the Marvel movie's violent action sequences: "We definitely pushed the boundaries!"
- A vampire role in an underrated Netflix drama from 10 years ago has an unlikely connection to Nosferatu star Bill Skarsgård's Count Orlok
- Mufasa director gets surprisingly candid and says the kind of filmmaking he used on the Disney movie is "not my thing"
- 5 years later, Star Wars fans have noticed an emotional Leia detail in The Rise of Skywalker
- GTA 5 dev says Rockstar stays quiet about GTA 6 on purpose because it creates "really cool theories" from fans: "All the developers over there are geeking out about it, trust me"
- "I guess it's just easy to be anti-Palworld": Pocketpair developer responds to latest round of controversy as the survival hit squeezes past 20 other games at the TGAs
- Marvel Rivals devs offer codes for a free Iron Man skin to celebrate launch, right as fans report issues with buying microtransactions
- Gen V and The Boys star Asa Germann joins Scream 7 and we’re all thinking the same thing, could this be the new Ghostface?
- The long-awaited finale movie of hit anime Attack on Titan is getting a wide release in theaters
- New Stephen King adaptation gets a first look as it makes a major change to be less "sadistic" than the book
- As over a million fans turn up for Path of Exile 2’s Early Access, devs warn of queues because that’s more than anything they “could have ever predicted”
- Marvel Rivals is out now on consoles and PC, but sorry Nintendo stans - the Overwatch rival "definitely isn't coming to Switch"
- Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin knows he's "13 years late" on the next A Song of Ice and Fire book and says he might never finish it: "That's still a priority"
- December 5
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- The Thing Remastered shadow drops on PC and console with a new trailer showing how far the cult classic survival horror shooter has come in 22 years
- Warcraft 2 just got its "first balance changes in 24 years," including a nerf RTS players have wanted since 1995
- The new guardians of the Infinity Stones go up against some brand new villains in Infinity Watch #1 preview
- Monster Hunter Wilds dev says Capcom is "really expanding on the parts that were appreciated in Worlds" to fully embed new fans into the series
- One of my favorite indie roguelikes is returning for a sequel, as Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault sets its sights on a 2025 release
- Civilization 7 director explains that each sequel is a massive overhaul because iteration and graphics improvements are "not worthy of another chapter"
- Ryan Reynolds told James Gunn to "get the f*** out of here" when he asked the former Green Lantern star to come back for the DCU
- It's an RPG Clash of the Titans as Dragon Age chief's new project confirms it's been designed in partnership with Naoki Yoshida's Final Fantasy team
- Five years later, PUBG creator PlayerUnknown finally reveals his massive open-world survival game projects, aiming for "realistic worlds thousands of kilometers wide" across three games
- Netflix's Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld star and creator are hopeful for a season 2: "We definitely would love to continue to play in this world"
- Next Borderlands 4 trailer is "badass af," says Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford even though he's "not supposed to talk about it" yet: "I'M FREAKING OUT, yo"
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is a close-quarters strategy game that might turn me into a die-hard turtles fan
- Taika Waititi has some choice words for "nerds" who thought he'd "ruin" Thor: "You don't know what you want until I give it to you"
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle joins Dragon Age: The Veilguard in the free PR win that comes with saying 'no Denuvo'
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (Dec 6-8)
- On the GTA 6 trailer's 1-year anniversary, gorgeous anime-style open-world game drops its own trailer clearly taking a page from Rockstar's marketing
- Kingsman star thinks another movie "could still happen", and he'd be keen "to do one more"
- Overthrown is a unique sandbox game "relative to most of the genre," with an ever-changing world that separates itself from genre giants like Minecraft
- Open-world dress-up game Infinity Nikki is giving out around $20 of free gacha pulls as dev apologizes and rolls out fixes for day-1 issues, promising more improvements to come
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's big bad isn't bald due to hereditary hair loss, his age, or a stylistic choice: "Solas lost hair because of stress"
- As Marvel Rivals fans worry about the roster being overrun with DPS heroes, devs tease more Strategist and Vanguard characters are coming in Season 1
- One of Netflix’s most anticipated anime shows of 2025 about a retired hitman just got an emotional new trailer
- A new "darkly funny" thriller series with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score just landed on Netflix – and a second season is already on the way
- "The party never ends" in Splatoon-like shooter Foamstars, except it does because Square Enix is pulling the plug on new seasons – but not before a Nier: Automata crossover
- How to watch the PC Gaming Show Most Wanted 2024 for another look at Avowed, The Thing: Remastered, and more
- New Doctor Who Christmas special trailer teases an emotional cameo from Ruby Sunday following her departure from the TARDIS
- Nosferatu star Nicholas Hoult says Bill Skarsgård’s intimidating "physical presence" as Count Orlok terrified him on set of the vampire horror
- Monster Hunter Wilds ran great on PS5 at Capcom's Japan headquarters, and its director says "the same level of frame rate improvement will also be implemented on PC"
- An Xbox Series S saved its owner's life in a truck accident, and while it still "runs games surprisingly well," Microsoft is sending him a new one anyway
- Fortnite's permanent OG mode will preserve "some of the rough edges" from the classic battle royale era, but certain quality-of-life improvements have also made the cut
- A more detailed look at the Superman logo has been revealed – and it's bringing back memories for DC fans
- Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi "deeply moved to be back on Xbox" with Fantasian, 17 years after dropping his last under-appreciated Xbox 360 JRPG
- Black Mirror star has reportedly "been offered" the role of Severus Snape in HBO's Harry Potter TV show
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard directors say they would've loved to explore "what lies beyond the sea" and add new classes in the DLC we're never getting
- James Gunn says new Superman star David Corenswet is going to "freak everyone out" with his performance
- After misses like Mass Effect: Andromeda and Anthem, Dragon Age: The Veilguard creative director says BioWare decided to "look at what's worked in the past" for inspiration
- Nosferatu was almost Robert Eggers' second movie after The Witch, but he's glad he waited almost a decade to make the vampire horror: "It just wouldn't have been as good"
- After 18 months, I've finally found a daft handheld that rivals the Tetris Mcnugget - a drumstick KFC Tamagotchi that's hungry for chicken
- Stardew Valley creator says he had his reasons to announce Haunted Chocolatier so early, and "if I don't post for a while, it doesn't mean I have abandoned the game"
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says Stalker 2 had to "come out the oven" eventually, even if it did launch with a lot of bugs: "It's just how it goes"
- Billy Butcher gets a bloody first look in The Boys season 5 as the showrunner pays tribute to the cast for "saving" him
- Former Blizzard president reckons Marvel Rivals has too much in common with Overwatch, comparing it to a viral Horizon Zero Dawn lookalike others called "shameless"
- Creature Commandos: Who are the Sons of Themyscira?
- Creature Commandos: Who is Circe?
- Like a Dragon technical lead says "new programmers at RGG Studio are blessed" by Yakuza games' quick turnaround because "recent major titles tend to have long development cycles"
- Eric Barone says he just can't "let go" of Stardew Valley "to work on something that isn’t already established and meaningful to people"
- Marvel Rivals release time - the countdown begins as the Overwatch rival nears launch
- December 4
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- All-New Venom #1 explained - Everything you need to know about the four potential mystery hosts, their new enemies, and the classic Venom host who's still in the picture
- Stardew Valley creator says he's done "a ton of work" on his next game Haunted Chocolatier, but it needs a lot more: "It’s okay, I’m addicted to the grind"
- Marvel Rivals' battle pass is an anti-FOMO win that doesn't expire at the end of seasons: "There's no need to worry about not having enough time"
- Now that Steam Deck has made good on the failed promise of Steam Machines, it looks like Valve is paving the way for third-party devices "powered by SteamOS"
- It took 34 years for someone to actually beat the original NES Tetris – now it's coming to Switch so you can try for yourself
- Games keep fighting over February 2025: Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is now launching a week early, further away from Civilization 7 and Assassin's Creed Shadows
- Fallout creator wishes he made different genres in the RPG series like a "really good FPS" similar to Borderlands or an adventure game all about stealing from Vaults
- Monster Hunter Wilds director says 4 weapons will get "big improvements or changes" after beta feedback: lance, switch axe, insect glaive, and sword and shield
- Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor Neil Newbon messaged the Fallout London team early on to say he wanted "to be involved," only to be left on read for nearly 2 years
- Former PlayStation boss says "You're not going to see another PS1 to PS2 jump in performance," and believes we're nearing "a point where the console becomes irrelevant"
- Former PlayStation boss says exploding AAA budgets squeeze out creativity as the "finance guys" hunt for their own GTA and find a "lot of copycats, a lot of sequels"
- I put 300 hours into Inquisition but this massive discount has finally made me want to pick up Dragon Age The Veilguard
- Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden says 100-hour games are a "mismatch" to today's reality: "I haven't even opened Red Dead Redemption 2, because I don't have 90 hours"
- A Hulu/Disney Plus fan-favorite with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score is coming back for season 2
- Almost 3 years after season 1, Severance gets a new look at season 2 as the sci-fi show creators explain the delay
- A year on from GTA 6's first and only trailer, fans are convinced there's finally a new teaser hiding in the latest GTA Online update art
- Helldivers 2 claws its way back to "Overwhelmingly Positive" on Steam after Arrowhead puts the focus back on having fun, with over 13,000 positive reviews in the past week alone
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard is getting a free standalone character creator as BioWare celebrates Dragon Age Day, along with a patch adding nostalgic armor and more to the RPG
- As Dragon Age: The Veilguard resolves major story arcs and mysteries, the RPG's creative director says that means Dragon Age 5 is a "possibility" for BioWare to "tell any story we want"
- Marvel Rivals' microtransactions might be even stingier than Overwatch 2 as streamers show off its in-game store featuring MCU skins
- Netflix shares a spooky new look at Jenna Ortega in Wednesday season 2 as filming finally wraps
- Alan Moore's The Great When is being made into a TV show – and the author is involved, saying "I'm genuinely excited"
- Daredevil: Born Again star reveals that the MCU series is set five years after the Netflix original
- David Harbour has already seen a cut of Marvel's Thunderbolts – and teases the movie's "surprising" and "impressive" direction
- Ahsoka season 2 has Dave Filoni as the only writer as he provides exciting update on returning Star Wars show
- Mike Flanagan's The Life of Chuck joins fellow Stephen King adaptations The Monkey and Welcome to Derry as it nabs 2025 release date
- Fortnite XP gets a boost after battle royale players complained that leveling up was too slow in Chapter 6, but "it still isn't enough" to make up for the nerf
- Monster Hunter Wilds' new boss won't let you gang up on it in co-op - you'll instead need "new ways of playing" to squash the spider-like foe
- Miles Morales star wants Tom Hardy’s Venom to make a live-action cameo in Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
- As the PS1 turns 30 years old, former PlayStation chief reveals he knew nothing about making games when joining the team but was assured "none of us do either"
- As the third Final Fantasy 14 Ultimate race in a row ends in MMO raiders caught using add-ons, World Race lead bans them outright: "Not everyone will be happy, but I think this is the best way forward"
- Even after 10 years of My Hero Academia, creator Kōhei Horikoshi is already "planning to start a new manga as soon as I possibly can"
- Fallout season 2 starts filming as The Ghoul's Walton Goggins shares BTS look: "It feels good to slip on this skin"
- First Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim reactions call the anime movie "breathtaking" and "a roaring return to Middle-earth"
- The first part of the huge Baldur's Gate 3-themed Stardew Valley mod is complete, and "it won't be long now" until its release
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth shippers waited 27 years to see Cloud kiss Tifa, but the team only added it because they wanted "something more" than a hug
- Skeleton Crew's creators explain why Jude Law's character doesn't show up until the final 10 seconds of episode 2: "We wanted you to feel like you're already lost and on an adventure"
- Infinity Nikki release time - the countdown to one former Breath of the Wild dev's cozy open-world game is on for PS5, PC, and mobile
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle PC specs revealed: At minimum Ray Tracing GPUs are "required" and you'll need an RTX 4090 for Ultra settings
- XDefiant is shutting down as Ubisoft closes San Francisco and Osaka offices following "long journey" of free-to-play struggles, up to 177 devs impacted
- December 3
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- Creature Commandos star says the new James Gunn show "sets up a world where people can be confident" in the new DCU: "Everything is gonna be okay"
- Monster Hunter Wilds director confirms my suspicions: a bug made monsters run away too frequently in the beta and the full game doesn't have this problem
- Stalker 2 director says she was as shocked as anyone by the controversy over AI system A-Life's removal from the FPS's Steam page: "I noticed it because of Reddit"
- Creature Commandos star Frank Grillo thinks we’ll get a season 2 of the new DC show "unless something goes terribly awry"
- Former PlayStation chief calls the PS3 Sony's Icarus moment: "We flew too close to the sun, and we were lucky and happy to have survived the experience"
- First 8 minutes of the new Lord of the Rings anime movie arrives online for free - and fans are already loving it
- Fortnite players lament the battle royale "becoming a chore" as XP changes make leveling up much slower in Chapter 6's debut season
- Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp's new paid version has finally arrived and is microtransaction-free, but fans already miss the old app
- A new Netflix thriller takes the #1 spot on the streamer, despite dividing viewers and critics
- New trailer for Snow White live-action remake teases a twist to the classic Disney fairy tale as star Rachel Zegler sings an original song
- Intel just announced new graphics cards starting at $219, and I'm rooting for these budget Battlemages
- Marvel Rivals already has 33 heroes, but fans are debating whether another one was hidden in the launch trailer
- Star Wars just introduced a mysterious new planet in Skeleton Crew, and fans already have big theories about it
- Fallout and Arcane star's serial killer thriller Sweetpea gets season 2 renewal
- Former Sony lead reveals that we got the PlayStation 1 because of a failed partnership on the SNES: "Nintendo left us standing at the altar"
- Move over Grogu, Star Wars fans are now obsessed with Skeleton Crew's Neel
- Challengers director Luca Guadagnino says he wishes he'd made a Spider-Man movie with Andrew Garfield
- There’s a Peter Pan Easter egg in Skeleton Crew – and Star Wars fans are loving it
- Monster Hunter Wilds hitstop feels way better in the non-beta build, and the game's director was happy to juice it back up after overseas players apparently hated it in World
- Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki says FromSoftware isn't "really considering" Elden Ring 2 right now, but he's still not ruling out more of the Lands Between in the future
- Hundreds of One Piece episodes are being moved behind a subscription paywall on Crunchyroll
- Borderlands director says he "could write a book" on his experience making the critically-panned video game movie
- A lot of Sony's leadership didn't take the PS1 seriously at first with Nintendo and Sega dominating the console space: "They didn't want to be associated with it"
- As Sony confirms the PS2's 160 million sales, former PlayStation chief reveals how many were actually made, confirming very few remain unaccounted for
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says it's fine if you didn't like the ending, but the RPG's devs still got "the response we wanted" as players "are still talking about it"
- The first eight minutes of Kraven the Hunter feature a Spider-Man comic book Easter egg
- Horror sequel Thanksgiving 2 gets exciting filming update, as Eli Roth reveals several actors will be returning
- A major Star Wars question from Andor was just answered in new show Skeleton Crew
- Horizon Zero Dawn-style open-world survival game previously blasted as "shameless" seemingly gets a thumbs up from Sony as it confirms a PS5 release
- The Witcher 4 wants to "at least live up to" The Witcher 3's legacy, but it's not "out to beat" CD Projekt Red's past RPG
- December 2
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- Sea of Stars developer Sabotage Studio is mainly inspired by two things: Nintendo, and "every single game ever"
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says that it's absolutely essential to Square Enix that his team makes Part 3 "the best experience we possibly can"
- Mass Effect director uses an influx of new players to remind everyone that the RPG trilogy has one DLC you should definitely "make sure you play"
- Forget Baldur's Gate 3, the Critical Role team are talking about creating their own video game
- Metaphor: ReFantazio is the most fun I had with a JRPG this year and its Cyber Monday price is a new record low
- Visions of Mana director joins Square Enix following layoffs at Ouka Studios
- Roblox gift cards are 15% off at Amazon - if you don't know what that means, ask your kids
- You can read all the Marvel Comics you want for an Amazing, Uncanny, Fantastic price with this Marvel Unlimited Cyber Monday deal
- PlayStation's 30th anniversary trailer puts it nicely and praises overzealous Bloodborne fans for their "persistence"
- At 50% off, the art book for one of the best-looking RPGs in recent history is too good to miss
- PlayStation has brought back the OG PS1 bootup screen on PS5 along with classic customization options, but they're only around "for a limited time"
- A trailer for a Lego James Bond video game pitch has just resurfaced, and it's everything you'd expect from a Lego adventure
- Manor Lords publisher's best-selling soviet city-builder announces second DLC that's all about bringing socialism to the USA and Europe
- Cyber Monday PS5 deals will end today - I've got 19 console, game, and accessory discounts worth grabbing ASAP
- Secret Level creators address potential crossover with Henry Cavill's Warhammer 40k adaptation: "There are so many stories to tell in Warhammer"
- Star Wars: Skeleton Crew creator Jon Watts reveals the perfect advice The Goonies director Richard Donner gave him about casting child actors: "You cast kids because of who they are"
- Helldivers 2's Democracy Space Station has been blowing players up, so the devs have come up with a handy guide to keep all your limbs intact
- Nioh studio founder says if he wasn't in charge, he would have been fired for spending 12 years and 3 reboots making the action RPG
- 18 months after Tom Cruise declared his love for popcorn, he's contributing to cinema's unlikeliest trend with a Mission: Impossible popcorn bucket
- My favorite gaming monitor will save you buying two separate screens this Cyber Monday
- RTS classics Warcraft 1 and 2 are being delisted from GOG just weeks after Blizzard released remasters for them, but GOG is standing by its commitment to preserve them with updates
- Cyber Monday Lego deals will end at midnight - I've handpicked the 12 sales you shouldn't miss
- Cyber Monday PC deals can save you up to $600 today - but I don't think stock will last much longer
- As Marvel Rivals adds even more DPS characters to its roster, dev reminds players that the team "wanted to move away" from Overwatch's traditional Tank, Support, and Damage roles
- Marvel's Spider-Man reportedly made a whopping $3.8 billion, although the math doesn't seem to add up
- 11 days before it hits cinemas, Kraven the Hunter's first eight minutes have been released for free – and it might just convince you to give the Marvel movie a shot
- You can get HBO Max for just $3 a month this Cyber Monday – just in time to stream James Gunn's Creature Commandos
- The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless is now $10 cheaper than it was on Black Friday - but this offer won't hold much longer
- Upcoming Hunter x Hunter anime fighting game unexpectedly banned in Australia, with no reason given for the decision
- Deadpool and Wolverine's script references Henry Cavill's iconic Mission: Impossible arm reloading scene – and it actually made it into the movie
- Cyber Monday Nintendo Switch deals have now ended, but these offers are still up for grabs
- After making pop culture history, Jude Law compares working in Star Wars with Marvel and Harry Potter: "They've all got their own particular way of making the magic happen"
- After 14 years, StarCraft 2's "impossible mission" has been beaten by refining the "Archon Toilet" strategy to cram a group of units into a spot where they'll live until the end of time
- Keanu Reeves signed onto Secret Level's Armored Core episode because he loves Netflix's Love, Death and Robots as creator shares actor's reaction to their pitch: "F*ck yeah!"
- This Lord of the Rings wargame deal makes me feel like a kid at Christmas again
- Star Wars' under-the-radar show Skeleton Crew has burst into life with these early reactions: "Think '80s Amblin adventure vibes with a sprinkle of early Mando"
- Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke teases that Larian has been "buzzing with all the new exciting stuff" while the post-launch teams have been hard at work on the RPG's big updates
- One of 2022's best strategy JRPGs has been temporarily delisted on Switch with no explanation, but fans think it could be a sign of an upcoming PS5 and Xbox Series X release
- Sonic 3 director shares first concept art from the movie featuring Shadow and Maria – and our hearts are already breaking
- Secret Level creator and Deadpool director never considered pulling the Concord episode when the game was taken down: "I can't see any reason why we wouldn't put it out there"
- Star Wars: Skeleton Crew was inspired by Lucasfilm's '90s Monkey Island games, says showrunner
- Skeleton Crew's Jude Law reveals the bizarre rules behind every Star Wars show and movie: "No buttons, no paper… There are certain camera moves you're not allowed to do either"
- Nosferatu director Robert Eggers explains how star Bill Skarsgård helped him improve the movie's 100-year-old ending
- eBay Australia is selling a Nintendo Switch OLED bundle with Super Mario Wonder and a year of NSO for AU$459
- The Hunt for Gollum team say the upcoming Lord of the Rings anime movie was them "testing the waters" for returning to Middle-earth: "It's been a joy to go back"
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- Creature Commandos producer reveals which episode of the DC animated show is James Gunn's favorite – and it’s by far the most heartbreaking
- Helldivers 2's director can't believe its music hasn't won more GOTY awards, but the shooter's composer is happy because he had almost quit games forever
- Hideo Kojima confesses that Metal Gear Solid 2's motion capture was done using "trial and error" 25 years ago
- Dev of one of our favorite strategy games of the year says he's unbelievably lucky to be in his position
- Arcane co-creator says he's been working on some top fan-picks for new stories "for months, in some cases years" - and hints that a pirate series could be on the horizon
- My fellow anime fans need to jump on these early Cyber Monday PS5 game deals before they're gone
- Obsidian's new first-person RPG Avowed channels Baldur's Gate 3 in one key way: "The core of RPGs that makes them special is missable content"
- This is probably the cutest Lego deal you'll see this Cyber Monday
- I'd leave the Xbox controller on its shelf this Cyber Monday and buy this $35 gamepad instead
- The Doctor Who Christmas special will explore what it's like to be in the Time Lord’s head when he's "got no one to be the Doctor for"
- Borderlands 3 and The Elder Scrolls Online director says AAA game studios are playing it safe since "you have people who get nervous because big money is involved"
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director says he rejects the idea of design by committee: "If there are too many people inputting, [...] the work can easily lose its character."
- One of my most anticipated board games of 2024 just hit a record low price ahead of Cyber Monday
- Cyber Monday iPad deals are just getting started - but stock is already running out
- Civ 7 director thought the new Ages system might not work, but says it does fix the "number-one issue" - players not getting to the end of their games
- The best Cyber Monday deals for gamers 2024: I've found the 33 biggest PS5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PC offers still available
- The Witcher 4 dev wastes no time jumping into the new book after its Polish release
- Bill Skarsgård says Stephen King’s It spin-off TV series will "explore things we haven't explored in the movies" and “hopes fans are excited”
- Arcane writer explains that there's one thing the League of Legends show could do that The Witcher or The Last of Us' adaptations couldn't - change their source material
- "Cut to about 3 o'clock in the morning, I end up on the piano, the bars kicked us out, and I spent the weekend nursing a hangover": Troy Baker on the 9-hour bender that taught him how to bring Indiana Jones to life
- Sonic 3 director explains how John Wick was Keanu Reeves' perfect audition for Shadow
- Arcane writer says Riot let them kill anyone they wanted, even fan-favorite characters: "There were no limits to what we could do to make a good story"
- Sherlock creator Steven Moffat responds to recent revival comments, revealing that he already has an idea for how Benedict Cumberbatch's detective could return
