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- December 4
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- 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
- Prepare to experience Joy with the festive Doctor Who issue of SFX
- 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"
- December 1
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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
