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- April 30
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- Arrowhead confirms Helldivers 2 players aren't being insta-killed by ricocheting rockets - shrapnel is the culprit, and it's being patched out alongside a weapon buff
- Tilda Swinton and Colin Farrell to star in new drama from All Quiet on the Western Front director
- Todd Howard says Fallout 5 and beyond will "predominantly" be set in the US
- 15-year-old kid demolishes the game of Tetris, obliterating every major world record and pouring cheese over his head to celebrate
- Beloved romance manga Horimiya returns with a new story from the original creator and more in an all-new volume
- Doctor Who showrunner says a season 1 episode features a 15-years-in-the-making idea that was too expensive at the time
- Doctor Who's Ncuti Gatwa reveals his picks for favorite Doctors – and it’s a "toss up" between a classic and newer Doctor
- Sea of Thieves speedrunning is in shambles due to a throwing knife glitch that kills one of the game's toughest bosses in seconds
- Diablo 4's new item upgrade is good news for more than just your Season 4 characters: "Things that were just ok in previous seasons are now insanely powerful"
- Diablo 4 Season 4 plans to "preserve the things that felt overpowered" from the PTR - as long as they don't "literally crash the game."
- Baldur's Gate 3 owner says it's got $1+ billion invested in game dev, and it's using one Mass Effect vet's new sci-fi RPG to help
- Madame Web is making its streaming debut on Netflix, and it's coming very soon
- The ideal movie runtime is officially the same length as Monsters Inc. and Beetlejuice
- Hideo Kojima has a new "number one" movie of the year – and it was a major Oscars snub
- Baldur's Gate 3 owner Hasbro reflects on the RPG's success: "People really, really like a great, well-executed D&D game"
- Helldivers 2's hot new feature is Super Commas, so you can properly see how many comrades have been slaughtered
- For its third anniversary Returnal devs Housemarque announce a new graphic novel and art book for the roguelike shooter
- Xbox's Starfield-style "Redacted Direct" is almost certainly for Call of Duty
- New brutal Deadpool 3 theory suggests which version of Wolverine will appear in the movie
- Stellar Blade director says extra DLC isn't planned yet, but the developer is working on a Boss Rush mode
- Hatsune Miku comes to MTG in spring Secret Lair
- Netflix’s new supernatural fantasy series with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score is climbing up the streaming charts
- The Xbox Games Showcase is returning June 9, along with a "special deep-dive into the next installment of a beloved franchise"
- The composer behind Marvel's Avengers: Endgame teases a return to the MCU
- PUBG studio's upcoming Sims competitor is full of realistic features like driving and getting into car accidents - but not like "what you see in Grand Theft Auto"
- 50 years later, the home of Judge Dredd is bringing back a classic romance anthology
- 20 years after Spider-Man 2, Alfred Molina reflects on playing Doc Ock: "That part completely changed my life"
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' home media release will feature a pre-VFX, mo-cap version of the movie
- A new show in the works from creator of Netflix's #1 hit, and it sounds just as wild
- Chris Hemsworth says he got caught up in the "wackiness" of the divisive Thor: Love and Thunder: "I didn't stick the landing"
- Tekken 8 community rocked by a bot that plays only one character, presses only one button, and is rampaging up the ranked ladders
- Fallout becomes Amazon’s second biggest show ever, behind Lord of the Rings
- As Avengers: Endgame turns 5, the film's composer reflects on the movie's best scene: "It's a very biblical event"
- A live-action Scooby-Doo series is in the works at Netflix
- Square Enix canceled $140 million-worth of games earlier this year as it looks to be "more selective"
- The directors behind the best horror of 2023 announce their secretive next movie with Shape of Water star
- We have our first look at the new Falcon in Captain America 4 – thanks to a McDonald's advert
- X-Men '97 finale trailer includes a dig at the X-Men movies
- Sims competitor Life By You finally releases this summer after its early access delay
- Yes, Stellar Blade's Eve sees you staring at her, just like Nier Automata's 2B and Death Stranding's Sam knew what was happening
- Manor Lords dev hits back at players complaining over crash reports: "99% so far are old drivers"
- Jeff Bridges is heading back to The Grid for Tron 3 as Disney reveals behind-the-scenes image
- First look released of Adam Driver in The Godfather director’s new sci-fi epic that’s been in the making for 23 years
- Helldivers 2 patch changed ricochet damage, and now players think they're getting bodied by rockets that just bounce off bots
- Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree leads PLAY’s open world special
- Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt on The Fall Guy celebrating stunt performers: "You're not the only person that plays your role, they do too"
- Heck yeah, the Paradise Killer studio is working with a prominent horror dev on an open-world management RPG about an ex-Yakuza and his Japanese mascot recruits
- April 29
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- Todd Howard says Baldur's Gate 3 wasn't some "overnight success" for Larian: "Have you played their previous games?"
- We may live long enough to see The Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 5 after all - Todd Howard says Bethesda is "finding ways to increase our output"
- Todd Howard says Starfield's Shattered Space DLC launches this fall, and a "big update that's coming really soon" has city maps and shipbuilding improvements
- Take Knuckles for a spin - the first episode is now free to watch on YouTube
- Some of the best anime in recent years will be streaming for free - for a limited time only
- Life is Strange developer's upcoming game Lost Records: Bloom and Rage is split into two parts, partly because of Game of Thrones
- Helldivers 2 players built an anti-bug defense system over a month ago, and thanks to a new Major Order now they have to destroy it
- As Helldivers 2 players pick the new Airburst Rocket Launcher from the latest Major Order, Super Earth sends potatoes to remember the lost
- Into the Serenity-verse! A new Firefly one-shot takes the Browncoats into an alternate universe
- James Gunn clears up a "confusing" Superman conspiracy theory about Henry Cavill’s DCU re-casting
- Tron 3 will push forward what’s possible with visual effects, says Star Wars actor
- Returnal developer is teasing something mysterious for the PS5 roguelike shooter's third anniversary
- An animator on one of the world’s most popular anime series shuts down rumors of a new season – after he inadvertently started them
- Fortnite co-creator says the game's $26 billion+ success is "humbling" - especially since people "said we were crazy" at the start
- The Social Network screenwriter is working on a new "adjacent" screenplay about Facebook and January 6
- The Lion King prequel Mufasa gets a hair-raising first trailer that's all about destiny
- Here's what you need to watch ahead of the X-Men '97 finale according to the showrunner
- Hideo Kojima has reviewed the "very touching" Godzilla x Kong, and it seems he was a big fan
- This in-progress Stardew Valley mod brings everyone's favorite Baldur's Gate 3 characters to the farming sim, but only one of them is dateable
- Pixar animator reveals how one last-minute change to Finding Nemo stopped the studio making its "first bad movie"
- A Game of Thrones MMO set between Seasons 4 and 5 is in development - according to The Witcher community's best-known reporter
- Wild Dragon's Dogma 2 mod overhauls lighting and shadows by unlocking a path tracing mode that Capcom never finished
- Walton Goggins shares a wild behind the scenes detail about Fallout’s real world filming location
- Upcoming horror movie from the killer’s POV with an already perfect Rotten Tomatoes score gets a new chilling teaser trailer
- Kraven the Hunter delayed further as Sony shifts release date calendar again
- Stranger Things season 5 spoilers are so big, star Maya Hawke won't even tell her dad Ethan Hawke any
- Solo dev behind roguelike hit Balatro expected to sell "maybe 10 copies" and go back to their IT job - but they went on to sell one million copies instead
- A major Marvel villain has been hiding in almost every episode of X-Men ‘97 so far
- Huge Helldivers 2 balance patch nerfs some of the shooter's most popular weapons, including the Quasar Canon
- Manor Lords dev says the city builder's future patches will tackle storage issues, archer damage, and AI running rampant over every territory it can grab
- The Last of Us’ Dina actor can’t wait for you to see her chemistry with Bella Ramsey in season 2
- Hideo Kojima has one big regret with Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, and it's all about a song he couldn't secure the rights to
- Oppenheimer star Emily Blunt on what her new action movie with Barbie star Ryan Gosling has in common with Barbenheimer
- April 28
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- Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom builder masterfully recreates the tank from 1996's Metal Slug to devastate Hyrule
- Escape From Tarkov dev apologizes for paywalling PvE behind a $250 edition - will now open access to the mode in waves "for free"
- Manor Lords archers are a little "ineffective" now because they were totally overpowered before: "This will surely take a while to get right"
- Fallout vault mapper faces their biggest challenge yet with the map for the canceled game that would have been Fallout 3
- April 27
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- Manor Lords breaks a Steam city-builder and strategy game record, beating Civilization 6 and Cities: Skylines as it sells 1 million copies just one day after release
- Borderlands release date, review, cast, trailer, and everything else you need to know about the new movie
- Escape From Tarkov devs reverse course on $250 PvE mode, promise it'll be free for all when the game exits beta - but its early access is still paywalled
- The Division director is coming for Escape from Tarkov with his new extraction shooter: "There's still an opportunity to be the best in this genre"
- Manor Lords came about partly because of a classic 1994 medieval strategy game and "raising sheep"
- Skyrim VR player who spent $15k on the "most immersive" setup adds a second haptic suit to simulate real pain
- April 26
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- Eric Barone quietly reveals new Stardew Valley update that's a game changer for honey farming: "Life will never 'bee' the same"
- My next Metroidvania kick is an ingenious mix of Zelda-like exploration, twin-stick combat, and pitch-perfect controls – with 97% positive Steam user reviews
- Wait a minute, Bandai's latest anime game actually looks pretty good: a console and PC action-RPG city builder based on one of the best video gamey anime in years
- Nintendo finally recognizes the most hardcore retro gaming sickos with Switch's latest N64 games, which you've probably never heard of
- Stellar Blade keeps fixing things that bothered me when I reviewed it – now including "input time for basic attacks, as well as the timing of blocking and parrying"
- Hades 2 technical test "winding down" in a few days, but don't be too sad – Supergiant says the roguelike's early access launch is "relatively soon after that"
- Avengers: Endgame directors say they don't believe in superhero fatigue and that the MCU's current problems are part of a "generational divide"
- Manor Lords dev doesn't like calling the city builder "historically accurate" because "nothing truly is" and wants to find "a balance between gameplay and realism"
- Following the success of Evil Dead Rise, the Sam Raimi franchise is getting *another* movie from an indie filmmaker
- A sneak peak at DC Pride 2024 teases new adventures for Harley Quinn, Superman Jon Kent, Poison Ivy, and more
- After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream
- Fans are losing it at a disclaimer for the new Lego Animal Crossing set
- I'm really digging the charming Animal Crossing x Zelda vibes of this upcoming sandbox indie game
- Fallout season 2 release date speculation, cast, news, and everything we know so far
- Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami stayed at Tango Gameworks 8 years longer than he wanted to out of responsibility for the studio's ongoing games
- After 2 years of early access success, '90s-inspired strategy game shoots past 500,000 wishlists with a fourth campaign and 1.0 release date announcement
- Solo developer behind Steam's hit new city-builder Manor Lords says he got his studio name from a Witcher 3 vs Mass Effect meme
- Avengers directors explain why they want to "build their own Star Wars" as they provide promising updates on Extraction 3 and The Gray Man 2
- Evil Dead’s Sam Raimi and 10 Cloverfield Lane writers team up to adapt popular horror web series
- As hit city-builder Manor Lords conquers Steam's top-sellers list, roguelike sensation Hades 2 jumps back up to the top of the wishlist chart
- Bloomsbury hint at something "very special" coming soon from Watchmen writer Alan Moore - and we think we know what it is
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead explains Larian's player-first approach to marketing the RPG: "The industry's best agencies ... came up with nothing good"
- Helldivers 2 devs are adjusting Automaton citizen evac missions "in the near future" because they're "$€@!£X@&! impossible on higher difficulty levels"
- New Helldivers 2 Major Order makes players choose which planet to save, earning a Rocket Launcher or Anti-Tank Mines - but not both
- James Bond star Pierce Brosnan looks unrecognizable in behind-the-scenes photos for new boxing biopic
- Knuckles star Adam Pally and showrunner Toby Ascher explain how that mind-blowing Alan Wake 2-style rock opera happened
- The Nintendo Switch 2 will reportedly work with existing Pro Controllers, while waving goodbye to current Joy-Cons
- GTA 3 dev says that the open-world game's "hardest technical challenge" was partially solved with careful city planning and some extra windy weather
- Stephen King has big praise for Netflix's current number 1 show, and fans agree
- A classic '80s Transformers character makes their Energon Universe debut in Void Rivals #9
- As Fallout TV show hype continues but Fallout 4's new-gen upgrade falters, the DLC-sized Fallout Miami mod takes the post apocalypse to the beach with a new trailer
- Following in Nier Automata's footsteps, Stellar Blade will "absolutely" crossover with the gacha game built specifically to stare at butt jiggles
- First look at Inside No. 9's final season reveals surprise Game of Thrones guest star, as BBC confirms release date
- David Tennant has been a "guiding therapist father figure" to Ncuti Gatwa as he prepares for his first season of Doctor Who
- Two years on, a Moon Knight Easter egg that’s on screen for "literally" a second has been discovered – and it’s a tribute to both Marvel and Oscar Isaac
- Doctor Who's Ncuti Gatwa teases season 3 return, saying he's "not going anywhere soon"
- Escape from Tarkov devs attempt to put out fire caused by $250 'pay to win' edition by giving everyone access to an exclusive game mode - but only for 6 months
- Xbox sales are down 30%, but Microsoft's CEO is still boasting "we had 7 games among the top 25 on the PlayStation Store"
- Deadpool 3 director says you don't need to watch any MCU movies before this one
- Peaky Blinders movie is ready to go and has a bigger budget: "Cillian Murphy is really up for it"
- Fallout 4 makes up for a disappointing next-gen update with the RPG's goofiest weapons yet: fiery baseballs, explosive piggybanks, and more
- Helldivers 2 dev shares more fan art of best girl Eagle-1, but insists that she hasn't been "physically augmented to better perform their duty"
- Happy 5th anniversary to Avengers: Endgame and one of the best cinema experiences of all time
- This space RPG from Mass Effect veterans already had my attention, but thanks to this hyper-intelligent pig with a 10,000-word vocabulary, it now has my curiosity
- Alien: Romulus reviews, cast, and everything else you need to know about the new movie
- April 25
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- Larian publishing director says "marketing's dead" because players don't want to be "bamboozled," and "we learned that with Baldur's Gate 3"
- Fallout 4's big next-gen patch isn't going over well, especially on PC: "I had very low expectations but this is MUCH less than I expected"
- 30 years after he created Hellboy, Mike Mignola is creating a whole new folklore-inspired universe
- Destiny 2 is un-sunsetting every gun in the MMO with The Final Shape's massive Power changes – but Bungie says "we have no recovery mechanism" for deleted ones
- After nearly 3 years in Early Access, one of the best co-op horror games I've played miraculously gets full launch amid stellar Steam reviews
- The wildest kart racer I've ever played might just be this Sonic fan game so mechanically dense it opens with a 45-minute tutorial
- 4 years later, The Invisible Man star gives promising update on the sequel: “We are intent on continuing that story”
- The real Thor comes face-to-face with his capitalist villain doppelganger Chad Hammer in this preview of Immortal Thor #10
- In a rare extreme for monetization, Escape from Tarkov dev doubles down on locking new PvE mode behind $250 edition as players chant "this cannot be tolerated"
- Arrowhead gives Helldivers 2 players hope for fiddly auto-climb feature and says it's "possibly tweaking" how it works "in the near future"
- BlizzCon is canceled again, and Blizzard hasn't really explained why - but says it's coming back "in future years"
- Stellar Blade director jokes the action RPG "is the outcome of my creative dictatorship," but "everyone pretends to listen to what I say whilst creating what they want"
- The Stellar Blade dev team had a "competition" to see who could beat a boss first: "From that moment, all of us understood how to design the combat"
- Russell Crowe is a pretend priest plagued by very real demons in the creepy first trailer for new horror movie The Exorcism
- 35 years after his introduction, The Simpsons just killed off a character who's been there since episode 1
- Acclaimed indie soulslike dev says the game is more Sekiro than Dark Souls, but you don't have to worry about massive parry chains
- Avengers: Endgame directors are confused by Robert Downey Jr.'s comments about returning as Iron Man: "We closed that book"
- After shutting down its American operations, veteran Japanese studio behind beloved JRPGs launches cult action RPG in English to zero buzz and confused fans
- Marvel and Bridgerton stars join season 3 of one of Netflix's most popular shows
- New Roll20 Discord integration is about to up your digital D&D game
- I wish Stellar Blade's New Game+ was added before my first playthrough, because it sounds like a whole new action RPG with 34 new outfits and a bigger skill tree
- Terrifier team's next horror movie unveils its first trailer, and it's predictably messed up
- In just 24 hours, absurdly lucky Pokemon player casually defies 1-in-65,000 odds to find a shiny Eevee that shouldn't exist and is impossible to keep
- Fallout star has made Letterboxd lists of his most famous characters' favorite movies
- Batman fights Wolverine on a stunning Jim Lee cover for the upcoming DC Versus Marvel Omnibus
- Knuckles might not be the only Sonic spin-off: "We have a really good plan for the future of Sonic," says producer
- Happy Death Day 3 is "all figured out," says star but "Blumhouse and Universal [need] to get their ducks in a row"
- A new R-rated action movie produced by Sam Raimi lands John Wick comparisons, but the director thinks there’s an important difference
- Fallout: New Vegas director says the RPG was criticized "for playing very similarly to Fallout 3," but his true inspiration was Fallout 1
- Gears of War actor hints that we might learn more about the next Gears game within just a couple of months
- Against all odds, Helldivers 2 community notches a historic win in grueling Major Order many thought impossible – defending 10 planets amid communication breakdowns
- Manor Lords release time – the countdown to Steam's most anticipated city builder is on
- Shōgun creator weighs in on the possibility of season 2 without the "roadmap" of another novel to adapt
- More of Wolverine's costume has seemingly been leaked, and fans are blown away by a comic book accurate detail
- After rave reviews, developer of acclaimed soulslike reveals they drew the game's first map 8 years ago - before they were even a dev
- Ubisoft hints at the future of Assassin's Creed's Basim but says "no post-launch content is planned for Mirage"
- Sam Raimi explains what he would have to "figure out" if he ever made Spider-Man 4 with Tobey Maguire
- A key moment in the Fallout finale was reshot as it was originally going in a "different direction"
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, and Jodie Comer set to lead new horror sequel 28 Years Later
- Garry's Mod dev responds to rumors that mass Nintendo takedown is fake: "I have been assured that the takedowns have been verified by Nintendo as legit"
- Zack Snyder reveals his next project for Netflix is his Norse mythology TV show
- The Last of Us TV show actor was advised to watch the games, but she played them both in a single weekend instead - and she's glad she did
- 10 years after its debut, one of the best sports anime is ready for its finale in new movie trailer
- A major reason Bill Skarsgård took on his first big action movie is because he loves MMA and UFC, says Boy Kills World director
- April 24
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- Helldivers 2 dev asks players to stop deliberately shooting at soldiers with that sweet blue pre-order bonus armor that's apparently a yogurt salesman uniform
- Stellar Blade release time – the countdown to the new PS5 action RPG is on
- Wilson Fisk celebrates 60 years of Daredevil by reclaiming his mantle as the Kingpin
- After selling 1 million copies, Balatro creator admits it's "held together with hopes and dreams" as game devs rally around the roguelike's beautifully nightmarish code
- After getting robbed 3 times during development, devs behind bizarre crab Soulslike are shell-shocked by stellar reviews: "Chat is this real?"
- "Please restrain yourself": Dev of Steam-topping city builder Manor Lords asks players to hold back on game-breaking town walls until a "proper" tool is added later
- Nintendo issues takedowns against 20 years of Garry's Mod content, devs ask for your help "by deleting your Nintendo-related uploads and never uploading them again"
- The Hobbit star "genuinely thought he was going to be fired" before filming started so he didn't even unpack
- Mad Max: Fury Road prequel Furiosa gets an unsurprising R rating
- Netflix's One Piece finally gets a season 2 release window
- Minecraft just made an invisible change that might just be a game-changer for mods: "They made modding like 20x easier"
- Baa-bye! The first Cult of the Lamb comic looks both heartbreaking and hilarious
- Oh good, Stellar Blade's day-one update adds the one feature I really wanted after finishing it: New Game+
- Inspired by Fallout's TV renaissance, Lord of the Rings franchise owner says there's "amazing" potential for spin-offs based in Middle-earth
- After taking on $1.5 billion in debt over a $2 billion gamble, embattled Embracer CEO responsible for over 1,400 layoffs breaks out classic scapegoats: Russia and Covid
- Before he passed away, Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama was full of praise for action RPG Sand Land: "It greatly expands the worldview of the original manga"
- Be prepared to get absolutely no work down with this Tamagotchi-inspired life sim inspired by the developer behind 'idle Stardew Valley'
- First trailer for Zoe Kravitz' star-studded psychological thriller Blink Twice is like a sun-soaked Knives Out meets Midsommar
- Fallout: New Vegas player "kept dying of radiation exposure" researching to build this incredible recreation in Far Cry 5
- Ryan Gosling has a disappointing update about The Nice Guys 2 – and Angry Birds is to blame
- Game devs rejoice as FTC approves ban on non-compete clauses: "There are going to be SO MANY new indie games from AAA devs"
- You won't find out the Manor Lords price before its release this week, but don't worry: "There's going to be a fair price there at launch"
- Zelda 2-inspired indie asks for $200 to make a spin-off in a month, but accidentally racks up $17,000 in Kickstarter funds instead
- Baldur's Gate 3 summoner uses six different classes to dial their RPG party size up to nearly 100 characters in a move that would definitely break D&D
- Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy's most divisive movie is climbing up Netflix’s top 10, despite its lackluster Rotten Tomatoes score
- Director of ultra-violent action movie inspired by anime and revenge movies justifies its R-rating: "If Sam Raimi is your producer, nobody really questions that"
- Fallout TV show fans want Bethesda to make this detail canon in Fallout 5
- Zack Snyder's new movie may have a low Rotten Tomatoes score, but it's Netflix's number one movie
- Stellar Blade players ask for help containing spoilers as copies of the upcoming game start arriving more than two days before launch
- One of the most iconic moments in Spider-Man's 60 year history is rewritten in Ultimate Spider-Man #4
- Fallout: New Vegas director thought 2003 studio closure that took down the original Fallout 3 and Baldur's Gate 3 teams meant he'd never get to work on the RPG series again
- Henry Cavill's new movie matches Zack Snyder's Justice League to hit a Rotten Tomatoes record
- New Deadpool 3 trailer links to a key Wolverine moment from the comics, which could hint at the movie's mysterious story
- Pokemon fans think Palworld's latest Pal is very familiar: "Literally Glaceon and Alolan Ninetales fused together"
- Razer just launched a new Viper mouse and it’s already climbed to the top of Amazon’s sales rank
- Bethesda's released Skyrim on 8 platforms but left Fallout RPGs idle, so players turn to popular mods for TV show nods, graphical boosts, bug fixes, and more content
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers will end in July - but is a reboot on the way?
- Helldivers 2 dev says they don't know if the shooter will ever go bigger than 4-player squads, but it "would require a lot of work"
- Decades later, an underrated anime is bringing its director back for a new "side story": "Those things have been in my head for 30 years"
- Final Fantasy 16 DLC makes the most of the RPG's mature tone by audaciously adding some caked-up Tonberries: "Oh no not their Tonbussy…"
- Netflix's One Piece season 2 gets a new co-showrunner – and it's one of the writers of a surprise Disney Plus hit
- Severance season 2 finally wraps filming, a year and a half after it first started
- Marvel fans spot neat nod to Tobey Maguire's first Spider-Man movie in new Deadpool 3 trailer
- Despite 'Mixed' launch, beloved Metroidvania dev cites Baldur's Gate 3 and Hades 2 in claiming that going Early Access for its new RPG is "one of the best decisions we could've made"
- Persona devs' new JPRG has got everyone hyped about its menus: "This is why you invest in UI"
- Steam changes its refund policy so that pre-order early access playtime now counts towards the 2 hour rule
- Quentin Tarantino's scrapped 'final' movie would have reportedly brought back some of his iconic characters in a "movie within a movie"
- Persona veterans' new JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio bumps a major series staple by excluding romance
- April 23
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- 5 million people played Fallout games in a single day, with Fallout 76 alone accounting for 1 million, amid the TV show's massive success
- 15 days after Wii U servers were supposed to be shut down, the last surviving Splatoon player is still hanging on as the servers crumble around them
- Al Pacino and The Guest star to play priests in a new exorcism horror movie based on a true story
- Stellar Blade director "grew up too poor to afford" a PS1, but when he finally got one in college, Ridge Racer and Final Fantasy inspired him to make games
- Post Malone and Michael Bay are creating a "new IP universe" about an 18-wheeler from heaven that fights zombies in medieval Europe
- Westworld star joins the cast of Wednesday season 2
- Jennifer Lopez is forced to team up with a snarky AI bot to defeat Shang-Chi star Simu Liu in the wild trailer for Netflix’s latest sci-fi action romp
- After at least 1,400 layoffs, 7 studios closed, and 29 games canceled, Embracer CEO admits "I deserve a lot of criticism"
- Cheetara takes the spotlight in her own ThunderCats spin-off comic
- The ESA says its members won't support the one form of game preservation that might actually work
- Avengers directors compare Millie Bobby Brown to Tom Holland as they tease her "fantastic" performance in new graphic novel adaptation which reunites them with Endgame team
- MTG Cowboy Bebop cards aren't Japan-exclusive after all, but you may still struggle to get them
- Further pointing to the fact the Fallout TV series feels like Fallout 5, Todd Howard says: "It's a new entry, so just like we approach a game"
- Mike Flanagan offers update on Stephen King movie, as one of its stars describes it as "heartbreaking" and "beautiful"
- "I kept picturing us stranded on the side of the road with a $100k collectible game": Holy grail Castlevania buyer outlines his daring reverse heist to get the game home
- Diablo 4 will "probably" get more Public Test Realms, but devs remain torn as they "take away some of the excitement" of new seasons
- 10 years after Captain America: The Winter Soldier, directors the Russo Brothers share their favorite MCU memories
- A former Stardew Valley dev is making their own life sim set in a city, and it boasts some exciting "Wind Waker-style wind whirlies"
- Publisher behind one of 2023's biggest Soulslikes announces $60 million "best-ever" year just 3 months after laying off 10% of staff
- After 25 years, the long-lost prologue to one of Capcom's most beloved PS1 classics is finally getting an English translation
- Team behind Steam's latest mega-hit was just joking when it said it would "double our sales," but then its horror gambling game actually sold 1 million copies
- Forget the Dune popcorn bucket, Terrifier fans want to eat out of Art the Clown's head
- Fallout New Vegas director doesn't "care" what the Fallout TV show does with the RPG's lore: "It was never mine"
- Knuckles has 300 more VFX shots than the first Sonic movie: "It shouldn’t be looked at like it’s this extra thing we did on the side"
- GTA 5 Trevor actor says he shot "James Bond" DLC where "he's still kind of a f**k up," but then it "just disappeared" at Rockstar
- Fallout: New Vegas RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says he "didn't recognize myself" during Pillars of Eternity 2 development: "I was this huge, awful a**hole"
- Former Mass Effect devs' survival game Nightingale gets "biggest" post-launch update yet with quality of life and gameplay improvements
- After designing a Helldivers 2 Assault mission pitch "crazy similar" to one Arrowhead kicked around, fan returns with another concept that takes you right into the lair of the bugs
- Director of upcoming Evil Dead spin-off teases the horror movie - "crazy, lots of Deadites, a big statement"
- New horror movie featuring Midnight Mass, Scream, and Fear the Walking Dead stars teases a bloody, cannabis-themed nightmare in first trailer
- Here’s the two words of advice Fury Road star Nicholas Hoult gave Anya Taylor-Joy for the Mad Max prequel
- Archie Andrews WILL save Riverdale - even if it means slaughtering everyone in his path
- Harry Potter director's adaptation of a hugely popular crime novel sets main cast, including a former James Bond
- No Rest for the Wicked creative director puts most of the ARPG's poor reviews down to a localization bug that stopped a lot of Chinese and Japanese text from showing
- Final Fantasy 14 devs more likely "to do something light again" for its next project as "you can kinda tell" Yoshi-P is "done" with Final Fantasy 16's "dark fantasy"
- From a Doctor Strange nod to a dark Ant-Man cameo, here's every Easter egg in the new Deadpool 3 trailer
- Believe your eyes: apes on horseback have been spotted ahead of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- Deadpool creator says Deadpool will be one of the best comic book movies of all time (not that he's biased…)
- Team Fortress 2 patch fixes a game-crashing bug that was happening because the game thought you were Half-Life icon Gordan Freeman
- Stardew Valley dev forced to roll back latest update for some players over issues that broke the life sim's Chinese translation
- Russell Crowe is back on the hunt for demons in first look at new horror movie with a killer Hollywood premise
- Fortnite never got Metroid series hero Samus, because Nintendo would only let her into the battle royale if she was a Switch-exclusive character
- Will Professor X appear in Deadpool 3? Fans seem to think so, as they believe they have spotted him in the new trailer
- Director of new film about scary spiders has strong words for anyone who makes a PG horror film: "It's an R-rated medium"
- While New Vegas veterans lure players to their deaths, Fallout 76 players are instead helping the MMO's newbies take advantage of its enemy-melting Perk system
- Fallout TV show’s big finale reveal about the bombs may have been a huge misdirection
- Steam's most-anticipated city-builder gets even more anticipated as Manor Lords adds another 500,000 wishlists in just six days
- The Witcher spin-off has reportedly been scrapped and will "most likely" be part of season 4
- Persona veteran's new JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio attempts to bridge real-time and turn-based combat in a move Final Fantasy has tried to make work for years, and it's out in October
- Diablo 4 dev is sending 666 buckets of literal bugs to "meat their maker" at a charity for hungry birds
- April 22
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- The cult vampire third-person shooter that nearly bankrupted the small studio that made it is getting a film adaptation from the Transformers producer
- Fallout mod site says it's like players are downloading Skyrim "twice every second" after Amazon TV series drives fans back to the open-world RPGs
- Almost every character to ever appear in X-Men comics is featured on this absolutely massive X-Men #700 variant cover
- After 19 years, Seth MacFarlane says he has plans for another Family Guy movie - he just hasn't had time to make it
- As Helldivers 2 players struggle with a brutal Major Order, dev says GM Joel secretly helps them out: "Short of handing you the win, there isn't a lot more we can do"
- Henry Cavill's new spy action comedy gets its own Game of Thrones coffee cup moment
- "Even Baldur's Gate 3 became so good because of Early Access," which is why the Dead Cells devs are using the same trick for their roguelike Prince of Persia
- Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies says they don't talk about previous Doctors on set as "it's more exciting to look forward"
- Oh, that's why the Stellar Blade devs were terrified by demo players: one fan's spent "about 60 hours" maxing Eve's skill tree before the action RPG is even out
- A new Taylor Swift song mentions GTA, but some remember it mentioning Baldur's Gate 3, Final Fantasy 14, and more in hilarious Twitter trend
- In a one-in-a-million clip, Helldivers 2 fan-favorite Eagle-1 gets gruesome payback for the safety measures we cut to buff our Stratagems
- After announcement of another reboot, the original Blair Witch cast are asking for the residual payments they never received
- Exclusive: New Pokemon cards set up powerful combos with huge damage
- New set video from The Bear season 3 seemingly confirm the return of a fan-favorite character
- Pathfinder has 1000 times more character combos than D&D
- Sonic 3 producer says it’s going to be a "giant, fun, incredible movie" that "takes a lot from Sonic Adventure 2"
- This martial arts story is finally getting an anime adaptation 39 years after its release – and it's coming to Netflix very soon
- The man behind the Fallout TV show's game-accurate look reveals an explosive Easter egg you may have missed
- The cutest Lord of the Rings game yet gets its first trailer, and I immediately want to live in this Hobbit take on a Stardew Valley-like life sim
- Seizing upon Fallout's popularity, New Vegas veterans are luring unsuspecting newcomers to the RPG's most infamous location
- Future Lord of the Rings games are set to get their own dedicated publisher following parent company Embracer's mass-studio closure amid $2 billion investment collapse
- New strategy game from legendary RTS devs behind StarCraft, Warcraft, and more has promised a reveal this summer
- Atlas director teases influences behind the Jennifer Lopez-led sci-fi movie, from Titanfall to Cast Away
- Alien TV show confirms its place on the franchise timeline as Foundation star joins the cast
- Valheim's massive new Ashlands update gives the survival RPG its "most challenging biome yet" plus raid-like sieges and new endgame weapons
- Fallout's surge in popularity has reminded everyone of New Vegas' most overpowered mechanic – bisexuality
- Scream directors open up on that unexpected cameo in new vampire horror movie Abigail
- Tom Holland really wants to do another Spider-Man film, but there's a caveat
- Superman actor auditioned for an MCU role which would have seen him work alongside James Gunn before the DCU
- I'm stoked to have these rare minis back in the new Warhammer 40K: Darktide board game
- Zack Snyder is excited for James Gunn's DCU – and hopes it does two things
- Abigail star Dan Stevens breaks down the new horror movie's big twist: "It just felt like all bets were off"
- The Office reboot finally finds its leads in Star Wars and The White Lotus stars
- Walton Goggins’ Fallout character might have actually appeared in the games, at least according to this fan theory
- The Fallout TV show's series rebirth continues as Fallout 4 rivals Helldivers 2, the once-maligned MMO hits new heights, and the planet's biggest mod forum crumbles under pressure
- Denis Villeneuve compares Dune to The Godfather with Paul Atreides being "the Michael Corleone of sci-fi"
- Now that The Witcher 3 has proper mod support, one dev says you "can't complain anymore" that you can't romance the Crones because you can "make it yourself"
- After a Mixed early access launch, acclaimed Metroidvania director behind the Ori games is striving to turn his new action-RPG's Steam rating from a "58 into a 90"
- Deadpool 3 trailer features Avengers: Endgame portals, Hugh Jackman's return as Wolverine, and the one thing Kevin Feige won't allow in the MCU
- Palworld patch speeds up egg hatching and banishes a bug that was preventing us from petting certain Pals
- Helldivers dev reveals who is the bigger threat to Managed Democracy between the Automatons and Terminids: “Yes”
- Stellar Blade’s “uncensored” Japan release sparks controversy as EA exec complains his 2023 game was banned over similar gore
- New Star Wars show is bringing a fan-favorite book character to live-action, but not the version you know
- April 21
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- Two Valheim players spent 1,000 hours building their own RPG inside the survival game
- Xenoblade meets Persona RPG smashes Kickstarter goal to get what every game needs (fishing) and says consoles are coming
- Daisy Ridley thinks filming her new Rey Star Wars movie will feel very weird: "I’m in a very different place"
- Fallout TV show appears to canonize unofficial map that New Vegas director Josh Sawyer drew 20 years ago for his canceled Fallout TTRPG
- Helldivers 2 Major Order progress might not be tracked properly as the war systems suffer "a minor outage"
- Marvel's Blade director points to Baldur's Gate 3 studio as an example of the multiplayer "potential" of immersive sims
- No Rest for the Wicked dev explains that its ARPG is - and isn't - like Dark Souls by giving players the "crazy" moves usually reserved for Soulslike bosses
- April 20
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- Helldivers 2 Game Master Joel works to fix "inconsistent" liberation results, but lacking in-game communication tools is the bigger problem
- The $8 Palestinian Relief Bundle includes 370 games, comic books, and TTRPGs normally worth over $1,600
- The Acolyte is a "similar" mystery to Russian Doll’s "spiral of storytelling" – with nods to pretty much every Star Wars era
- One of the longest-running series in gaming is back for the 34th entry in 24 years
- For a moment, Fallout: New Vegas fans thought they'd found evidence of sequel plans, only to find Josh Sawyer's burrito order instead
- Helldivers 2 developer warns we're "intentionally going to lose ground" in this Major Order as both Bots and Bugs want revenge
- Mad Max prequel Furiosa was originally developed as an anime spin-off, and has been ready for 15 years
- April 19
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- After the Fallout show's success, Diablo boss says the ARPG "could translate very well" to TV: "I definitely think it could work"
- Marvel's new mega-capitalist Thor shows the worst case scenario of what corporate superhero comics can be
- Super Mario Maker fans got to say goodbye to their game, but Sony just unceremoniously pulled the plug on LittleBigPlanet and 16 years of community creations
- Scientist analyzes Mario Kart 8's 703,560 possible builds to create a formula that picks the best racer for you
- Fallout co-creator weighs in on the TV show's lore controversies and says maybe the games are wrong
- Fallout TV show production designer explains why they made a big last-minute change to the episode 1 ending, and shares shooting plans for season 2
- A hundred years of Wolverine and Sabretooth's complicated history are compressed into just 4 pages in this preview of Wolverine #48
- Fallout TV show stars break down the big season finale mysteries and how they might set up Fallout season 2: "We need it to be revealed"
- MTG Outlaws of Thunder Junction gets a Cowboy Bebop crossover, but it’s maybe not in the way you’d hope
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is twice as big as the first game, has revamped combat "to make it more accessible," but stays "true to the core RPG experience"
- New Star Wars show The Acolyte is a "prequel to the prequels," with a modern sensibility too
- The most metal tabletop RPG gets new, equally rad action figures
- A massive Spanish Pokemon tournament that starts out with a Stardew Valley-style Nuzlocke was won by an exploding "trash-bird"
- Henry Cavill seemingly references his Black Adam cameo and subsequent Superman exit: "Turns out, I don't have much luck with post-credits scenes"
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's writer once resisted finishing where the original JRPG's tragic twist occurs, preferring a point that could have led to a much shorter game
- The director of Sims competitor Life By You says players can monetize their future mods: "You don't owe us a dime"
- After 13 years, Minecraft's most legendary journey to the Far Lands has just passed the final milestone before the end
- Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and all of DC's July 2024 solicitations
- Furiosa's Chris Hemsworth journaled as Mad Max villain Dementus to help get him into character
- Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn thinks Fantastic Four will break the MCU's superhero fatigue
- My Adventures with Superman season 2 debuts first look footage and teases a mysterious new character
- Fallout 4 devs have "worked to minimize" the number of mods that the new update breaks
- Doom 2 speedrunner breaks an 'impossible' 26-year record by completing the FPS's first level in just 4 seconds
- As Final Fantasy 14's Dawntrail benchmark turns some of the MMO's players into cursed beings with "lifeless" eyes, Yoshi-P apologizes and promises a new one
- After years of abandonment, Team Fortress 2 fans rejoice over a patch that grants 25% extra FPS
- Idris Elba addresses Keanu Reeves' reported Sonic 3 casting in the most Knuckles way possible
- Mad Max prequel Furiosa has a 15-minute action sequence that took 200 stunt people 78 days to shoot – and it's "very important" for understanding Anya Taylor-Joy's character
- 11 days after Nintendo shut down 3DS and Wii U servers, six players are still clinging on in Mario Kart, Splatoon, and Pokemon XY
- Frostpunk 2's beta hides a terrible scenario where all of the city-builder's factions "go to war," but so far no one's found it
- Former Blizzard president and Diablo co-leader says new ARPG from Ori devs is "exactly where the ARPG genre needs to go to stay relevant"
- Eiyuden Chronicle Hundred Heroes is getting a sequel despite the passing of the throwback JRPG's director and studio co-founder
- After 10 million sales and record-breaking critical acclaim, Baldur's Gate 3 CEO explains the secret to the RPG's success: "Treat your players as you would like to be treated"
- Visions of Mana isn't getting co-op at launch, but the JRPG's producer doesn't rule out multiplayer "in the future"
- I've not stopped thinking about this open-world dress-up game from a former Breath of the Wild dev for 2 years, and now it finally has a playtest
- Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth are ready to ride eternal in these exclusive new images from Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players spent 870 hours completing every shrine and exploring the entirety of Hyrule to create eerily beautiful footprint map
- Michael Douglas had a big idea for how he wanted Hank Pym to die in Ant-Man 3
- New Dragon's Dogma 2 patch is nerfing the RPG's divisive Dragonsplague by making it easier to recognize before it's too late
- After the original medieval RPG courted controversy over historical accuracy, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 will feature "a wide range of ethnicities"
- Helldivers 2 fan dreams up in-depth Assault missions pitch that the game's director calls "crazy similar to a prototype objective from some years back"
- Two of Netflix's best shows, including Squid Game season 2, get a shorter 2024 release window
- Fallout fans have spotted an Easter egg that proves the show's unbelievable attention to detail – and it involves the original 1997 RPG
- Baldur's Gate 3 leads feel "closure" after the RPG's victory lap: "I'm crazy hyped about what's next but it's going to take a while"
- Marvel merchandise might have just released a big Captain America 4 spoiler about Red Hulk
- Riding the success of the Fallout TV show, Fallout 76 teases a hugely popular "newly expanded map" in its next update
- Five years after its announcement, The Wolf Among Us 2 is still "in production" and gets four new screenshots
- Skyrim speedrunner breaks 3-year-old record by leveling from 0 to 80 and killing the RPG's infamous Ebony Warrior in just under 12 minutes
- Hades 2 devs ask fans not to share datamined content so that roguelike fans still have some surprises in store for early access
- After 7 years of no updates, fans of a beloved anime are devastated after the film adaptation is canceled
- After last year's source code leak, GTA 5 modders finally have the game running on the Nintendo Switch - but it ain't pretty
- Helldivers 2 players think they've squished 2 billion Terminids in 12 hours, but some are worried the latest Major Order was tracking kills wrong
- April 18
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- Everyone liked that: Fallout TV show renewed for season 2 at Amazon
- Stardew Valley update adds new mine layouts and a bunch of quality-of-life upgrades, and bans "two inappropriate names" from the name generator
- Martin Scorsese casts Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in the Frank Sinatra biopic he's been trying to make since 2009
- Now that's rare: A single fan petition with just 70 signatures prompted Sea of Thieves' director to bring back a fan-favorite feature that was removed this year
- Zack Snyder says Tom Cruise wanted to play this surprising Watchmen character
- After leaving D&D behind, Baldur's Gate 3 dev confirms its next two projects are original IP, which could be good news for fans of its long-running RPG series
- Die creators Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans' new original graphic novel is a cross between The Walking Dead and The Iron Giant
- First trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's new horror thriller Trap sees Josh Hartnett as a serial killer on the run at a pop concert
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is coming, and it's everything the first RPG "was supposed to be in the beginning"
- Legendary Mario dev says the wild rush to beat every Super Mario Maker level before servers died is "actually pretty cool"
- DC's massive summer event Absolute Power sees Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and more take on a "Trinity of Evil" led by Amanda Waller
- The director of upcoming Sims competitor Life By You says life sims are "the most complex RPGs ever written"
- Diablo 4's Season 4 PTR didn't reveal everything; Blizzard teases there are "still a few small items" to reveal that "will round out the season"
- City-builder dev tempers expectations for anticipated new game by reminding fans it's not an RPG, RTS, map game, or a Total War competitor
- Incredibly realistic GTA VR mod garners praise from former GTA 5 developer who says they "barely recognize the game I worked so hard on" and reveals Rockstar "had no interest" in making its own
- Marvel is pitting the Avengers against the Xenomorphs of Aliens in a story from the all-star Secret Wars creative team of Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribić
- Edge 397 explores UFO 50, Spelunky dev Mossmouth’s ambitious mission to build 50 games for a fictional retro console
- Fallout TV show executive producer says there’s one Westworld and Breaking Bad star who really wants a role in season 2
- This Nintendo Indie Showcase debut had platformer fans calling it a Pizza Tower clone, but they're both inspired by the same 2001 GBA classic
- Netflix confirms The Witcher season 5 will be the show's final season, as Liam Hemsworth gears up to play Geralt in new season 4 table read photo
- Cities: Skylines 2's first DLC went down so badly it's free now, and the city builder devs have delayed the next expansion to focus on fixing everything else
- Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 7 will add "improved evil endings" even if you're not playing Dark Urge, and cross-play and photo mode are on their way too
- Witness! Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is on the cover of the new issue of Total Film
- Indie devs behind Animal Crossing-style management sim with 'Overwhelmingly Positive' Steam reviews get candid about future plans: "Will we milk this? No, we clearly don't want to do that"
- Andrew Garfield or Miles Teller could take on the role of Jesus in Martin Scorsese's next movie
- Transformers One trailer sees Chris Hemsworth’s Optimus Prime take off the training wheels as it debuts in literal outer space
- Top Gun: Maverick’s Glen Powell stars in trailer for Netflix movie with near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, and it’s now become one of my most-anticipated 2024 films
- After slowing the Automaton invasion, Helldivers 2's next Major Order asks players to squash 2 billion Terminids - and 100 million of them died in the first hour
- Before it can even launch, Steam's most-anticipated city-builder is forced to patch an economy-busting 'exploit' by hard-nerfing sheep
- Even though it's not Baldur's Gate 4, Larian's next RPG "will be our best work ever" says 'excited' Baldur's Gate 3 director
- Zack Snyder says he hopes to make "four or six" Rebel Moon movies: "I guess it's whether or not we make one or two each time"
- The first Nintendo emulator to land on the App Store and stick following an Apple rule change plays DS, GBA, N64 games for free
- Rebel Moon 2 star Ed Skrein says his major action scene is on a level with his final fight in Deadpool
- Hades 2 fans think the roguelike sequel confirms a 6-year-old fan theory about the mysterious narrator's identity, in an easter egg 2,000 years in the making
- Nier Automata's Yoko Taro thinks Japanese devs have struggled to embrace Western tech, but Stellar Blade's director says "Japanese content is completely back on top"
- Pokemon Van Gogh merch is back and this time these gorgeous pieces aren’t getting snatched up by scalpers
- 21 years after its release, Oldboy director is working on an English language TV remake of the cult classic
- Following up on Sonic's success, Sega is adapting a legendary 1989 Genesis game with help from Rick & Morty and Community talent
- Helldivers 2 dev doesn't want the shooter to become "Kingdom Hearts or Fortnite," but is open to crossovers if they "make sense"
- Quentin Tarantino ditches plans for his final movie, which would have reportedly starred Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt as a returning character
- New movie in popular anime series debuts to perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- Todd Howard says Bethesda is "doing a lot of Starfield work" to make "some really good updates that are going to get announced soon"
- The first trailer for new anime movie based on Chainsaw Man author’s one-shot manga is here and I’m desperately hoping for a western release
- As the Fallout TV Show sends fans to Bethesda games in droves, Fallout New Vegas director says give the RPG's much-maligned card game another go as it's "not that hard"
- As Helldivers 2 fans call for bug fixes over new content, director apologizes "for the sloppy mistakes we've made as of recent" and knows "we can do better as a studio"
- 1 month later, one of Square Enix's best recent JRPGs is finally back on Nintendo Switch after mystery vanishing
- April 17
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- Helldivers 2 bug fixes take time because the dev team hasn't grown with the game's massive success: "There's just only so much time in a work week"
- In less than 3 hours, Hades 2's new and returning characters have already put the entire fandom in horny jail
- The mega viral co-op horror hit that was free for its first 24 hours was mostly developed in a single month
- James Gunn's Superman casts Diary of a Wimpy Kid actor as Ma Kent
- After 47 years, Steven Spielberg is finally making another UFO movie with help from the original Jurassic Park screenwriter
- After season 4 snagged a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, one of Apple's best sci-fi shows confirms season 5 and a spin-off series
- Gail Simone and Rainbow Rowell are the next Superman Superstars to work on Action Comics in 2024
- After days of debates over what is and isn't canon, Todd Howard has the final say on whether the Fallout TV show is part of the game universe
- Hades 2 gets a huge gameplay stream out of nowhere: devs reveal new features, characters, Boons, and more in the roguelike sequel ahead of its technical test
- Doctor Who showrunner and star say an upcoming episode is like Black Mirror
- World of Warcraft vice president says "the dream remains" to bring the MMO to Xbox, even if there's "no room for that conversation yet"
- The next World of Warcraft expansion features an ancient race of spider people, so ahead of The War Within, the MMO is getting an arachnophobia mode to turn them into crabs instead
- An incredible XCOM-like strategy game is finally getting a sequel after 9 years - the latest in a criminally slept-on series that's never seen a bad game
- Marvel Comics writer Cody Ziglar says that Kevin Feige personally requested the death and resurrection of Ms. Marvel
- No Man's Sky dev team featured in story on AI stealing jobs from coders, studio lead Sean Murray can only ask "wtf"
- Zack Snyder has a story idea in mind for Rebel Moon 3, should a threequel happen on Netflix
- Interview with the Vampire season 2 will be bigger, and include a huge twist that’s not in the books
- This Hades-style Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles roguelike is finally breaking free from Apple Arcade jail for a Nintendo Switch launch in 3 months
- Terrifier 3 director confirms filming has wrapped with another bold declaration: "We've reached a whole new level of horror madness"
- Scream directors on new vampire horror movie's big Dracula Easter egg
- Fallout TV Show star talks a big game about Lucy being a deadly softie, but fans have done the RPG math and she's barely level 8 by the end of season 1
- Dead Boy Detectives creators tease plans for multiple seasons of The Sandman spin-off: "This is the kind of show that could go on forever"
- Star Wars horror game pits Stormtroopers against a zombie virus in an unofficial adaptation of an official novel
- Spider-Man, Wolverine, Deadpool and other Marvel heroes land on the VIZ Manga app
- Zelda collides with Studio Ghibli in Europa's "peaceful and zen vibes", and after more than 6 years in development it's coming to Nintendo Switch with a demo out today
- After 42 years, one of Atari's weirdest, best games is getting a cyberpunk, anime, Metroidvania sequel
- After making an iconic puzzle game so hard he could barely beat it himself 11 years later, dev teases a new game that's even harder
- Doctor Who season 1 finale is the "most devastating" yet, says Russell T Davies: "Oh my god, you’re gonna die"
- Solo FPS dev left baffled after their retro-style FPS is inexplicably deemed ineligible for Steam's FPS sale
- 8 years after the last movie, Now You See Me 3 gets a positive update as Barbie and Holdovers stars join cast
- Zack Snyder and the Rebel Moon cast tease the upcoming director's cuts, including that NSFW alien scene: "I hope I don't become too much of a meme"
- New horror movie Tarot is like a James Wan movie meets The Twilight Zone – with some Spielberg thrown in, too
- After 9 years, Ghost of Tsushima is the first PlayStation game on PC with Trophies
- Todd Howard says the level of detail on the Fallout show went so far, he actually found a full Vault report on set
- Elden Ring streamer beats the RPG with morse code, gets skill-checked by notoriously bad Elden Ring player Elon Musk, then ratios him on his own platform
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes producers compare it to Avatar and Dune: "It’s a beautiful film, anchored in beautiful characters that you really care about"
- Melissa Barrera and Radio Silence explain why their new meta horror movie is more Ready or Not and... The Breakfast Club than Scream
- There's a pretty neat Fallout Easter egg hiding in the poster, and you won't be able to unsee it
- The Sandman spin-off show creator reveals that Netflix asked for Easter eggs and Neil Gaiman created a new character for the series
- Anticipated indie Soulslike fears competition as Hades 2 test approaches and Silksong fans crawl from the woodwork: "It better just be us vs Stellar Blade as god intended"
- Tom Hiddleston reveals that his Loki was inspired by an iconic Die Hard character
- The Witcher 4 is being "intensively worked on," but Cyberpunk 2 is keeping most of its senior devs to "preserve" the RPG's DNA
- James Gunn's Superman finds its Pa Kent in The Walking Dead and True Blood star
- Vecna: Eve of Ruin trailer sees Baldur’s Gate 3’s Neil Newbon return to D&D
- Neil Gaiman says The Sandman season 2 is "astonishing", and gives an update on Good Omens season 3
- As Helldivers 2 players take advantage of a glitch to farm Super Credits for free, Arrowhead says it's aware of such "undemocratic behavior"
- Slay the Spire dev says his "Chicken Soup" roguelike design is more Stardew Valley coziness than new mechanics or fancy graphics: "I don't care about any of that"
- Rayman board game revealed, and I'm in love with its minis
- Henry Cavill’s new action movie gets mixed reviews, with critics saying it’s full of style but doesn’t live up to its potential
- Joel Edgerton asked for a role in new Apple sci-fi series Dark Matter because he's a fan of the book
- Cyberpunk 2077 sequel lead says avoiding crunch is key to keeping studios afloat: "Sustainability is incredibly important"
- Wild Dragon's Dogma 2 mod reworks more than 600 New Game Plus battles, putting your "mastery" of the RPG to the test
- Star Wars Outlaws defaults to Ultrawide to make it "one of the most cinematic games of all time"
- Zack Snyder wants his next movie after Rebel Moon 2 to be a surprise – and not a "visual effects extravaganza"
- Wednesday season 2 has just announced the perfect piece of casting: Steve Buscemi as the new Nevermore principal
- Doctor Who's Russell T Davies responds to "tabloid" rumors of Millie Gibson's exit, as Ruby Sunday is confirmed for season 2
- Two Fallout 4 endings might have quietly become canon thanks to the Brotherhood of Steel's Fallout TV show airship
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes villain star teases what to expect from the franchise's new "narcissistic" antagonist
- Beautiful open-world JRPG inspired by Persona and Xenoblade is set to smash its $50,000 Kickstarter in barely 16 hours
- Inside No. 9 creators tease the final season’s episodes – from a Gothic period piece to one set in a horror-themed escape room
- April 16
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- After making $8.5 billion from GTA 5 and saying it had "no current plans" for layoffs, GTA 6 publisher announces nearly 600 layoffs and $140 million in canceled projects
- Morbius may go from "Living Vampire" to very very dead vampire in Amazing Spider-Man: Blood Hunt #3
- After 32 years, the 1992 open-world space game that helped inspire Mass Effect is getting a proper sequel
- Hit manga Jujutsu Kaisen just got an unexpected cameo in Nightwing's big 300th issue special
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's most painfully boring minigame was originally twice as tedious, but at the last minute Square decided "it might be stressful"
- A beloved Netflix fantasy anime with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes gets a bloody new season 2 trailer
- D&D owner Hasbro is already "talking to lots of partners" about the next Baldur's Gate game and hopes "it's not another 25 years" before it comes out
- After 15 years, actors from one of the best English anime dubs ever recorded return to their roles for the fantasy series’ new adaptation
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director is struggling to decide how to kick off the JRPG's final installment
- After 18 years, PlayStation's year-round E3 trailer resurfaces on Facebook Marketplace for $70,000, from a vendor who apparently has no idea what they're selling
- Hades 2 beta will "begin shortly," sign-ups are already live, and the roguelike's "Early Access shouldn't be far behind"
- 35 years later, Chris Claremont is finally filling in a missing moment in X-Men history
- Borderlands actor drew inspiration from Barbie co-star Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn for her role
- I've waited over a decade for the Star Wars Lego sets coming May 4
- Elden Ring DLC publisher tells fans to "treat yourself to 18 inches of Messmer the Impaler," manifesting memes straight from Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
- Overwatch 2 players baffled after accounts get suspended for swearing, as Blizzard customer support reiterates that "profanity has never been allowed in our games"
- One of the best anime movies of the past few years is now on Netflix
- "Maybe I’m too old, maybe I’m not": Henry Cavill says he isn’t writing off James Bond yet
- The Witcher 3's official modding tools are now available on Steam - but only for a select few
- Dedicated Fallout fan uses screenshots from the Amazon Prime show to work out where every vault is located in real life
- Helldivers 2's infamous Automaton Striders are back with a vengeance, just as players thought they were turning the tide against Game Master Joel
- Zack Snyder wants to release his Sucker Punch director's cut to make its meaning more obvious: "It's shocking to me how misunderstood the movie was"
- After 41 years, Star Wars Outlaws is the first video game to feature the franchise's iconic but nearly abandoned card game
- The PC Gaming Show returns in 2 months with over 50 games worth of world premieres, exclusive announcements, and dev interviews
- Like father, like son: Scott and Jack Snyder discuss their post-apocalyptic sci-fi saga By a Thread
- Helldivers 2 players say they'd give up a warbond to give devs more bugfixing time, but "it's not that simple, skipping a warbond is a huge company decision"
- The Ready or Not horror movie sequel script is an "absolute f***ing banger"
- Nintendo Indie World Showcase 2024 start time - here's how to watch 20 minutes of indie game goodness
- GTA 5 actors say a behind-the-scenes documentary camera was running "the whole time" during development, but Rockstar "never did anything with it"
- Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse could be released next year, at least according to a musician working on the film
- PS5 Pro developers will reportedly be asked to make an exclusive graphics mode for Sony's upgraded console
- Helldivers 2 dev shares fan art declaring community-favorite character is an anime girl "married to Democracy," smitten players immediately decide they're Democracy now
- Mark Millar's "favourite character I've created" gets a new series from Dark Horse
- Steam's most-anticipated city-builder racks up another 500,000 wishlists - after solo dev's girlfriend guessed it would only get 7,000 total
- Fallout TV show star Walton Goggins reveals why he had no idea that his finale line was such a big deal
- Barely 4 months later, Palworld CEO says "Genshin Impact-level" clones of his survival game are "incredible," with budgets "10 times larger"
- Tomb Raider is seemingly coming to the Super Pocket thanks to Evercade cart upgrade
- After nearly 20 years, the "least broken" Mario Kart game just got a huge new skip that threatens to flip the speedrunning scene on its head
- Nier: Automata creator Yoko Taro says Stellar Blade is "much better" than the beloved RPG: "Stellar Blade actually makes me quite jealous"
- Bridgerton star in talks to join Jurassic World 4 led by Rogue One director
- Sonic the Hedgehog may have predicted Keanu Reeves as Shadow in a previous movie
- Andor season 2 gets a new update, as the Star Wars show creator calls it the most "important" work he's ever done
- Star Wars Outlaws' season pass-exclusive Jabba the Hutt mission won't be the only time Kay Vess encounters the crime lord
- Despite the Fallout TV show's success, Bethesda veteran says not to expect Fallout 5 any time soon: "We need time to make great stuff"
- Helldivers 2 is technically free via PlayStation's loyalty program, but only if you've already dropped roughly $1,000 on games in the last year and a half
- Fallout season 2 will feature some familiar locations and monsters, and there is already an Easter egg teasing them
- Helldivers 2 patch confirms what must be wretched Automaton sabotage, because none of my weapons are working as intended
- Nier: Automata's Yoko Taro says the beloved RPG was "most inspired" by Neon Genesis Evangelion: "It's pretty much just a retelling of Evangelion, so there's not much originality to it"
- April 15
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- Reading 42 pages of Elder Scrolls Online Gold Road patch notes won't make Elder Scrolls 6 get here any quicker, but it's a good way to kill some time
- Palworld fixes "an issue that caused all Pal attacks to deal only half the intended damage," confirming the survival game community's suspicions
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 finds its Shadow actor in John Wick star Keanu Reeves
- Helldivers 2 devs are reworking "fire as a whole" after admitting the way it works now is "ridiculous"
- Invincible season 4 and 5 renewal seemingly revealed by now-deleted crowdfunding campaign message
- New Robert Downey Jr. spy comedy series from Oldboy director is called "brilliant, unsettling, and entertaining" in first reviews, landing a great Rotten Tomatoes score
- Helldivers 2's ammo booster was inspired by the director's time in the military where "it was always possible to stuff an extra magazine in another pocket"
- Mike Flanagan praises gripping” new prequel to cult classic horror movie and says it "knocked him out cold"
- Destiny 2 dev thought it would be "impossible" for someone to clear the MMO FPS's new horde mode solo until now: "I'll never underestimate this playerbase again"
- Star Wars Outlaws has cameos that should please "oldheads and youngheads" alike, but don't expect to be hunted down by Boba Fett
- New terrifying drama with perfect Rotten Tomatoes score is climbing Netflix rankings as viewers discover its based on a shocking true story
- True Detective showrunner teases season 5 and its possible connection to Night Country
- The funniest character from the She-Hulk TV show just made her Marvel Comics debut
- With 20 hours to go, Helldivers 2 players are finally in position to succeed the latest Major Order after Game Master Joel gave them hell all weekend
- New horror movie about killer spiders debuts to strong Rotten Tomatoes score, earning comparisons to Alien and Slither
- Shang-Chi star Simu Liu “promises” that a sequel is still happening despite no update from Marvel for three years
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth update quietly fixes the confusing retry menu JRPG fans have been clowning on since launch
- Star Wars Outlaws creative director says the Jedi "didn't even enter the picture" when deciding what the open-world game would be about
- Dragon Age co-creator says adapting the beloved RPG into a Fallout-style TV show would be a "terrible idea"
- Beetlejuice actor says she's definitely not in the Tim Burton sequel, as she offers up theory as to why
- Nicolas Cage's new creature feature horror movie is actually inspired by one of Disney's most innocent characters
- Live-action adaptation of one of the most popular manga ever is moving forward with Rick and Morty co-creator on board
- Fallout lead backtracks after revealing link between the original RPG and Fallout 4 that fans say makes one protagonist a war criminal
- Reacher is the "American James Bond," according to its star Alan Ritchson
- A Fallout Brotherhood of Steel theory suggests a major season 2 spoiler could be hiding in plain sight
- Peacemaker season 2 is finally filming, and James Gunn confirmed the news with a fun behind-the-scenes snap
- Fallout games surge in popularity as the Amazon Prime TV show proves a hit with fans old and new
- Dune star Rebecca Ferguson gives promising update on her hit sci-fi show - that the last two seasons might film back-to-back
- Invincible season 3 is coming sooner rather than later, with voice acting already complete
- Helldivers 2 isn't getting transmog because wearing armor with passives that don't match it would be "like having an apple that tastes like bacon"
- DC fans think James Gunn just teased Superman’s weirdest villain for the 2025 movie or Peacemaker season 2
- Deadpool 3 director Shawn Levy says the movie isn't actually Deadpool 3
- If you ring this number from the Fallout TV show you'll discover a hidden Easter egg
- April 14
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- Our most-anticipated city builder becomes one of the world's most-wanted games as it tops Hades 2's Steam wishlists
- Helldivers 2 dev says melee weapons are "still branded plausible," and now I'm dreaming of duking it out with an Automaton Hulk with a giant sword of my own
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth book confirms what JRPG fans suspected: Barret is the easiest character to date, to no one's surprise
- Fallout 4's next-gen update prompts indefinite delay for massive "30-40GB" Fallout London mod: "The past four years of our work stand to simply break"
- April 13
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- Former Blizzard president wants to be able to leave a "tip" after completing $70 games: "I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20"
- Baldur's Gate 3 studio was secretly one of the biggest Kickstarter backers for a modern Metroidvania classic: "They dropped a four figure sum, never asked for their rewards"
- Even the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth explainer book can't explain what's up with the JRPG's divisive ending
- Helldivers 2 dev suggests restarting the game to fix a pricey new ship upgrade bug, confirms the team is "investigating a fix"
- Final Fantasy 14's massive graphics overhaul, due in update 7.0, shows how far the MMO has come in 10 years
- Helldivers 2 devs "contemplated" underground maps, but they'd be hard to make with "a lot of tech and logistics based on it being a very different kind of gameplay"
- Minecraft movie stars Jack Black and Jason Momoa celebrate end of filming with a sweet behind-the-scenes photo
- April 12
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- Fallout TV show didn't need to use CGI to create the Wasteland because it found the perfect real-life location
- What do you get when you turn Peter Parker into the Green Goblin? Spider-Goblin, of course
- GTA San Andreas speedrunner meets the dev who programmed the nonsense that destroyed her run, and he's "so sorry"
- The most beloved modern Star Trek shows are both getting renewed, but there's sad news for one of them
- As it goes gold, Stellar Blade dev says "many people felt we were out of our mind" for trying to make a full-fat action RPG in Korea's mobile-dominated market
- Helldivers 2 players were right: the new Warbond's Ground Breaker armor has the wrong passive bonus, but Arrowhead says it'll be fixed soon
- This Metroidvania had my curiosity after boasting of an Elden Ring-sized map, now it has my attention after showing off some slick JRPG and Soulslike elements
- First look at Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor Who season 2 confirms the return of Millie Gibson and introduces a new companion too
- After 26 years stuck in Japan, Nintendo finally releases forgotten SNES Mario worldwide on Switch
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird provide a never-before-seen cover for the TMNT 40th Anniversary Celebration comic
- Transformers #7 packs in the cameos as Starscream and Soundwave go to war over who will lead the Decepticons
- The Helldivers 2 dev asked players about its new Warbond and worst guns, and after 25,000 responses folks overwhelmingly agree that they both need a little something
- Fans are calling the Fallout TV show one of the best video game adaptations ever – and critics agree, judging by its near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- After 25 years, the lost N64 game that could've been Nintendo's answer to Tomb Raider has been preserved online
- After 10 years and two canceled projects, former Dragon Age director says he's "confident" his promising new game about giant bosses "will get out the door"
- Louder for the shareholders in the back: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth producer says Part 3 may be finished within just 3 years because the dev team hasn't been split up
- A fan-favorite Marvel star will voice the villain of the Avatar: The Last Airbender movie trilogy - and the first film is now arriving next year
- Thunderbolts' mysterious asterisk does mean something, but Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige won't say what until post-release
- A chalkboard has ignited a fierce Fallout TV show debate about whether the new series has retconned game canon
- "I may need your help": Japanese visual novel publisher goofs too close to the sun by saying one anime girl plushie made more money in 28 hours than its past 28 years of games
- Hollow Knight: Silksong hopefuls cry "SKONG" and issue a “Code Red” alert after indie showcase mentions the sequel, only to have the Metroidvania no-show yet again
- After that Rise of the Beasts post-credits scene, a Transformers and G.I. Joe crossover movie is officially happening
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says the CRPG's latest players' choice win is proof that "a developer is not a dispensable asset"
- Captain America 4 is acknowledging Thunderbolt Ross looks different with a Rhodey-style joke
- Fallout season 1 finale has a major New Vegas character cameo that you may have missed
- Thought the Dune popcorn bucket was obscene? Deadpool 3 has an even cruder tie-in planned
- Here are the Genshin Impact 4.6 codes from the livestream
- What If…? Donald Duck Became Wolverine is the Disney-themed Old Man Logan parody we didn't know we needed
- New Alien: Romulus footage has shown behind closed doors, with lots of blood and, of course, aliens bursting through human chests
- The secret to Helldivers 2's success? The Last of Us and God of War designer points to immersive element "I don't see people talking about enough"
- Horror sequel Smile 2 trailer has debuted behind closed doors, showcasing its grin-tastic premise with a popstar twist
- Wade Wilson knows about your Avengers Secret Wars theories for Deadpool 3, and he’s trolling you with them
- X-Men '97 mid-season trailer teases a surprise, major Marvel cameo
- Slay the Spire 2 is happening because fans went "the extra mile" for the original roguelike deck builder: "We love our job"
- New Deadpool 3 footage sees Thor crying over a dead Wade Wilson, and potentially sets up a big Loki retcon
- Captain Marvel #7 shows what happens when you sever the Nega-Bands from the Negative Zone
- Original Final Fantasy 7 director hopes the JRPG series continues after the Remake project trilogy ends, but reckons it may be without him
- Captain America 4 first look shows Harrison Ford tasking Anthony Mackie with starting a new Avengers – and Kevin Feige compares the movie to The Winter Soldier
- First Sonic 3 footage teases a Sonic and Robotnik team-up to take down Shadow
- Baldur's Gate 3 passes Elden Ring and Breath of the Wild to become first game to win all five major GOTY awards
- In Helldivers 2's clearest 'are we the baddies' moment yet, players can remove safety systems protecting the community's favorite character just to buff Stratagems
- Gladiator 2 debuts "epic" first footage, featuring a brutal Paul Mescal battling man-eating monkeys, a terrifying Joseph Quinn, and gladiators fighting sharks
- April 11
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- Cult classic X-Men title NYX relaunches with Ms. Marvel and Laura Kinney's Wolverine in the spotlight
- Win a 4K Blu-ray of Aliens
- Win Baghead on Blu-ray
- Despite concerns in a rough year for indie games, publisher Devolver Digital says its latest game has "exceeded" expectations and "is well on its way to success"
- Apple's Godzilla spin-off series starring Kurt Russell is getting a second season
- Top Gun: Maverick star to lead Edgar Wright’s long-delayed reboot of Stephen King's The Running Man
- A Star Trek origin story movie is officially on the way from Andor and Black Mirror director
- Are we sure Star Wars Outlaws is a Ubisoft game? Its director says there are no map towers to climb out in the open world
- A live-action TMNT: The Last Ronin adaptation is officially in the works - and it's rated R
- Nearly a decade later, Fallout 4 is getting its next-gen update with 60 FPS support and a pile of new content just in time for the TV show
- Ultimate X-Men #2 is finally starting to look more and more like an X-Men comic
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin II #2 moves its release date back a month
- First trailer for Apple’s trippy new sci-fi series based on a best-selling novel sees Joel Edgerton caught between universes
- 8 years after it debuted, Tom Hiddleston's hit thriller series has been renewed for season 3, before season 2 has even aired
- As tributes flood in for the 3DS and Wii U servers, some tireless Nintendo survivors stay connected and refuse to let their beloved online modes die
- After 15 years, legendary roguelike RPG is finally leaving Early Access, but the devs await the "financial realities of sales" before deciding what to do about DLC
- Fan-favorite Fallout TV show characters are already appearing in other Fallout games
- Helldivers 2's latest Warbond has a rifle that's so unbelievably bad it almost feels like the Automatons are telling us to use it just so we lose ground
- Civil War star Kirsten Dunst says director Alex Garland is a risk-taking "auteur" – even though he "hates" the word
- Blizzard removes, adds back, and now re-removes WoW Classic Cataclysm line where Garrosh calls Sylvanas a "b***h," despite MMO lead swearing it was "not coming back"
- The Marvels director eyeing her horror return with Danny Boyle's new 28 Days Later trilogy
- Fallout star says her character Lucy is the most brilliantly unhinged combo: "Leslie Knope meets Ned Flanders" and someone who can "also kill you"
- Dragon's Dogma 2 speedrunner blasts through the RPG in under two hours - all while totally naked and using only their bare fists
- There are loads of Easter eggs you probably missed in the Joker 2 trailer, including some big callbacks to the original
- Upcoming horror movie Nosferatu debuted a trailer behind closed doors, and apparently Bill Skarsgård's vampire is absolutely chilling
- Arcane star teases "devastating" season 2 finale as she admits it made her cry during filming
- Pokemon hacker could face five years in prison for selling manipulated Scarlet and Violet save data in Japan
- A Heroes reboot is in the work from original series creator, with new characters but "familiar" villains
- Fallout: New Vegas director and CRPG veteran Josh Sawyer says burnout has "replaced crunch as the primary hazard of the game industry"
- With apologies to Geralt, Henry Cavill suggests the new Highlander movie has the best sword work of his career
- Todd Howard knows you want a Skyrim show, but "there's nothing in the works" despite the success of the Fallout TV show
- Is that the Watcher hiding in X-Men '97? Fans think so
- I was almost interested in this newly announced Steam Deck rival until crypto vibes spoiled it all
- Helldivers 2 adds top-tier, eye-wateringly expensive fleet upgrades to help turn back the Automaton invasion fleet that will take me months to earn
- New horror movie remake based on divisive film gets terrifying trailer, and it might feature James McAvoy's most disturbing performance yet
- Stellar Blade dev a bit "scared" by diehard fans who've somehow already put 50 hours into the PS5 action RPG: "Please go easy on the demo"
- Thought X-Men ‘97 episode 5 was devastating? The series creator hints we haven’t seen anything yet
- Stardew Valley patch 1.6.4 is on the way, adding "a few goodies" including "a new fishing thing, and some new mining-related stuff"
- Five Nights at Freddy's sequel finally officially confirmed – and there's a release window
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth serves up a strong entry for 2024's best patch notes: un-stopping a side quest called 'Can't Stop Won't Stop' which was ironically "stopping progress"
- Civil War star Kirsten Dunst has a surprising comparison for Alex Garland's latest movie: Paris, Texas
- Is the Fallout TV show canon? Here’s what Bethesda’s Todd Howard and the showrunners have to say
- When does the Fallout TV show take place on the series timeline?
- The Fallout TV show just teased that season 2 may take place at an iconic location from the games
- Fallout’s finale may have just answered the centuries-old mystery behind who started the nuclear apocalypse
- The Fallout TV show just revealed the canon origins of Vault Boy's signature thumbs up
- Fallout season 2: Has it been confirmed? What could happen next on the Fallout TV show?
- April 10
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- Heck yeah, my favorite open-world indie game of 2023 is releasing on Switch in June
- EA shoots down rumors of a canceled Dead Space 2 remake: "There is no validity to this story"
- Barbie star Margot Robbie is producing a Monopoly movie
- Two X-Men icons are reunited in the post-Krakoa era as Jean Grey becomes the Phoenix once again in her new solo comic
- The Paranormal Activity studio is reviving the Blair Witch Project with a "new vision" for the horror classic
- The vice on the PS4 and Xbox One gets a little tighter as Diablo 4 boss agrees "there's always a time and a place" to drop last-gen
- Palworld teases update with its own take on Pokemon Stadium, with the small change that you bring guns to PvP with your Pals in gladiatorial blood sport
- One of 2018's greatest roguelikes is finally getting a sequel, and its expanded 4-player online co-op looks fantastic
- One of last year's best and biggest roguelikes gets even better: first Brotato DLC coming this summer alongside 4-player co-op
- My most-anticipated open-world game looks better with each new trailer: Hyper Light Breaker shows off a fiery boss ahead of the roguelike's summer launch
- And so, I return to one of my favorite roguelikes for the millionth time: Risk of Rain 2 is getting a free update, and its next DLC continues to look great
- Slay the Spire 2 announced, the roguelike card game that spawned countless deck builders gets a gorgeous and expanded sequel in 2025 with new class Necrobinder
- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet geniuses discover exploit that can generate infinite Master Balls and other rare items just by altering the Nintendo Switch clock
- New Beetlejuice 2 footage shares new insight into the plot as Michael Keaton calls it "really f*cking good"
- The last Splatoon player says they've somehow stayed in the dead Nintendo servers: "I get lonely sometimes, but at least I have my Amiibo"
- Robert Pattinson dies over and over again in the behind-closed-doors trailer for new sci-fi movie from Parasite director
- M. Night Shyamalan has revealed the plot of his new horror thriller – and it sounds like Saw meets Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
- Helldivers 2 players rush to find "Karl" after deleted post from official account, which is certainly not "an illegal Automaton broadcast," but may be a crossover hint
- James Gunn's new DC Studios has confirmed its first film: a moving tribute to Christopher Reeve
- Fallout lore denizen and Elder Scrolls narrative lead says it's "insane" that fans think he "doesn't give a s**t" about the lore
- Kyle MacLachlan immediately sells us on Fallout – by comparing it to two of his greatest works: Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet
- Star Wars Outlaws recruits the best character from the Han Solo film, but not the actor who played her
- The Boys season 4 creator says it could be the "best yet" – and confirms it’s completely finished
- New Superman logo unveiled as James Gunn teases the 'Summer of Superman'
- New Furiosa footage is reportedly "a sonic and visual onslaught" of everything we could possibly want from the Mad Max prequel
- Kit Harington has bad news about his Game of Thrones and MCU futures
- Star Wars Outlaws Ultimate Edition for $130 continues an industry trend of paying lofty sums for early access, and players don’t like it: “Why is everything monetized”
- The liberty-loving freestyle Helldivers 2 rap that didn't make its iconic opening cinematic surfaces, spurring us on to spread managed democracy like never before
- Reported first look at Deadpool 3’s full Wolverine costume is here… on a plastic cup
- Joker seemingly has a best man for Folie à Deux’s wedding scene – and it’s a returning character from the 2019 original
- Joker 2 theory suggests Harley Quinn and Joker's relationship might be an inverse of the comics, and we're convinced
- Days after Troy Baker said he's not in GTA 6, sleuths believe they’ve identified the real actor behind protagonist 'Jason'
- Forget The First Omen's much-talked about birth scene, there's an even crazier moment the new horror movie is hiding in plain sight
- My most anticipated anime movie of the year gets a release date – and it's surprisingly soon
- James Bond game Project 007 hires The Division and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora lead to help "design the most amazing Bond missions"
- Civil War director doesn't see his new movie as an American story – but he set it in the US for a reason
- 15 months after a licensing spat, Blizzard and NetEase make up to bring games like Diablo, Overwatch, and World of Warcraft back to China
- First Joker 2 trailer sees Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga on a weird and wonderful musical adventure
- "They were nearly lost forever": How one JRPG superfan spent 340 hours saving Dragon Quest 7's DLC just before Nintendo's 3DS server shutdown
- Just before Nintendo shut down the 3DS and Wii U servers, fans rallied together and gathered 23,000 data dumps to preserve DLC that was nearly lost forever
- April 9
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- The actual, real, one-of-a-kind Spawnmobile is on auction at a shockingly low price
- Blumhouse teases Five Nights at Freddy's sequel with mysterious behind-the-scenes image – and fans think they've spotted Mangle
- X-Force is relaunching this summer with Forge in charge, and he's planning to fix the whole world
- As delayed Helldivers 2 medal payouts trickle in, dev says "we've realized that we need to do an overhaul" on the whole reward system
- "We want it to feel a little broken": The Final Shape lights Destiny 2 on fire with a new subclass combining all abilities and 2-in-1 Exotics with random rolls
- A new look at Eli Roth’s live-action Borderlands adaptation has been released – and fans are all saying the same thing
- "Absolutely outrageous": Epic steps in it by removing Fortnite's cosmetic rarity system and immediately selling skins deemed overpriced by angry players
- Ready or not, the Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 might show up later this year
- The Star Wars Outlaws release date sends us back to a galaxy far, far away this summer
- Fallout TV show release date: What time is the series on Prime Video?
- The Godfather director's new movie deemed too "experimental" as it struggles to find a distributor
- Iron Man game is making "excellent progress" and development will continue even as its studio forms a new team to support the Battlefield games
- Lovecraftian TTRPG Call of Cthulhu hits 1800% of its Kickstarter goal
- Netflix’s new shark themed thriller gets its first trailer, and fans are calling it the "French Jaws"
- First Joker 2 footage is just 30 seconds of Joaquin Phoenix cry-laughing in the rain
- Hit indie video game is getting a movie adaptation described as the Sixth Sense on water
- Next gen Intel graphics cards could arrive in time for Black Friday
- Palworld update breaks the survival game so hard the devs tell Xbox players "do not try to load multiplayer data" for now
- Despite previous comments, Robert Downey Jr. says he would "happily" return to the MCU as Iron Man after his Oscar win
- Looks like Battlefield is finally returning to "single-player experiences," and EA brought in the Dead Space Remake devs to help get it right
- Helldivers 2's oil-loving Automaton enthusiasts hit back with their own propaganda, including a robotic diss track I can't understand but I assume our moms are slandered
- Star Wars Outlaws release date leaks, and you can seemingly play the open-world game 3 days early with the Gold or Ultimate editions
- 13 years later, One Piece’s latest episode has finally matched the anime’s highest-rated episode
- New trailer for Netflix's next big manga adaptation promises a fun, action-packed take on Tokyo crime-fighting
- Christopher Nolan's brother told him not to be "chicken sh*t" when on the fence about making The Dark Knight
- Helldivers 2 Game Master Joel says sike, the previous Automaton force was "merely a vanguard," and now a massive fleet is assaulting Cyberstan and beyond
- Lenovo Legion GO 2 is seemingly in the works, but it’ll likely arrive after the next Steam Deck
- It sounds like Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire could be getting a sequel
- Dynamite reveals its The Terminator 40th anniversary plans - and hints that the killer cyborg will be back for a new series
- Stellar Blade director advises making Eve wear clothes "as much as possible," but fans are acing the RPG's demo boss in the NSFW 'skin suit' without taking damage anyway
- It's not all Nier Automata and sci-fi manga, what really shaped Stellar Blade was a real-life taxi driver strike that left an impression on the RPG's director
- Chilling horror movie with 100% Rotten Tomatoes score is coming soon to Netflix – and it's being called Nightcrawler with witch doctors
- Helldivers 2 soldiers' Automaton-dismantling victory is bad news for Trophy hunters who need to wait for their return to Platinum the shooter
- Sonic the Hedgehog producer says the franchise's upcoming movies will become "Avengers-level events"
- Helldivers 2 patch remedies the mission-crashing bugs that nearly derailed the Automaton war effort's finale, just in time for the next Major Order
- Pokemon and Splatoon fans fight Nintendo's 3DS and Wii U server shutdown by keeping their favorite games online for as long as possible
- Fallout cast watched Twitch and YouTube streams of the games before filming: "Watching people play was vital"
- The Fallout TV show is now releasing a day early, thanks to a surprise Prime Video move
- Dragon's Dogma 2 patch fixes progression-blocking bugs, but PC players are left frustrated over persisting performance issues
- April 8
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- Holy Grail NES Castlevania sells for over $90,000, losing bidder predicts "a $250K flip" but the buyer says he wanted "the first game my mom ever bought me"
- Fallout TV show stars and creators on working with Todd Howard: "It means a lot to get his approval"
- Venom: Separation Anxiety #1 pits the classic Lethal Protector Venom against one of Marvel's most despicable villains
- This JRPG combines 2 things I thought impossible: it's set in 15th century Slovakia where you play as an alcoholic knight and it's only a few hours long
- Fallout TV show star Walton Goggins intentionally chose not to play Fallout, even after getting the job
- Helldivers 2 rocked by "rogue item" promising new Stratagems, dev tells players to avoid "Catalog Expansion" upgrade or who knows what could happen
- Helldivers 2 players get a well-deserved gift after taking out the entire Automaton faction (for now): "An extra 1-minute break," minus the time it took to read this
- The latest unexpected Steam hit is a $3 must-play and it may still hit greater heights after nearly 7,000 glowing reviews as the dev looks to add multiplayer
- Former Diablo 3 dev regrets pushing back against more complex skill system that "would have been probably better than what we have today" for ARPG veterans
- Mark Hamill reacts to those bizarre Star Wars beer adverts, and his response is hilarious
- You can now read some of my favorite manga of all time for less than $5 thanks to an unexpected new deal from Final Fantasy's publisher
- Star Wars Outlaws trailer countdown – another look at the "first-ever open-world Star Wars game" is nearly here
- One Dragon's Dogma 2 boss has a hidden cutscene - but only if you drag their fight out for 2 minutes
- As its sequel is announced, one of the best Adam Sandler movies is rising up Netflix's top 10
- English dub of hit anime movie is now available for free on YouTube – and it's a two-hour must watch
- Fallout season 2 might have just been confirmed in the weirdest way
- Someone impressively edited Spider-Man into the Invincible season 2 finale Agent Spider scene
- New Superman actor David Corenswet teases the comics James Gunn's film shares vibes with
- Not even a week since Helldivers 2's latest balance patch, players are already sick of burn damage being an "instakill" death sentence
- Down-bad Baldur's Gate 3 player loses 90-hour Honor Mode run to an NSFW scene that definitely wasn't worth the sacrifice
- The Fallout TV show went the extra mile – by creating a real-life Pip-Boy for its cast to use
- Dragon's Dogma 2 bullies are tackling Pawns over cliffs and using them as meat shields to prevent fall damage: "I call it 'Pawn Surfing'"
- MaXXXine trailer sees Mia Goth go to Hollywood and Psycho's Bates Motel in first bloody look at the upcoming horror
- Netflix's new #1 show is an adaptation of a hit manga that's made fans desperate for season 2
- Fallout fans can stream the first episode of TV show for free on Twitch – here’s how
- First reactions to Scream directors' new horror movie are comparing it to a Tarantino classic and The Lost Boys
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director compares success of the "f***ing CRPG" to Palworld, says "it's not rocket science" why the survival game is doing so well
- Stellar Blade director vows to buck industry advice for single-player games as "what our industry needs more than anything is variety"
- As Daredevil: Born Again wraps filming, it turns out one Netflix cast member is returning after all
- First look at Gladiator 2 logo confirms official title and teases more about movie
- Starfield and Skyrim veteran praises Dragon's Dogma 2's "classic sneaky design trick"
- The world’s most popular anime show has been revealed, but it's not One Piece
- Troy Baker shoots down GTA 6 fan theory that he's voicing a protagonist: "I want that guy, whoever it is, to get credit for his work"
- Logan director's Star Wars movie will be co-written by someone who penned some of Andor's best moments
- Invincible creator reveals which characters from season 1 are set to make unexpected comebacks in season 3
- Helldivers 2 grunts have dismantled the Automatons and are squishing Terminids at pace, but can't help but fear Game Master Joel plans something horrid
- Stranger Things star knows whether Eddie is returning for the final season, but he’s not telling you
- April 7
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- Helldivers 2 dev recommends letting the game "rest" to fix frequent crashes as over 230,000 divers fight to squash the Automatons this weekend
- Palworld datamine suggests the community's favorite imaginary Pal, a fire Chillet counterpart dubbed Grillet, may actually be added to the open-world survival game
- The impossible Super Mario Maker level has been cleared just days before Nintendo kills 3DS and Wii U servers
- Helldivers 2 players have been wasting Stratagems - dev confirms the new bot Gunship factories can only be destroyed with Hellbombs
- April 6
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- Don't worry, Stardew Valley 1.6 is still in development for console and mobile farmers, but ConcernedApe has "no specific release date"
- Final Fantasy 16's Yoshi-P sparks hope for another SRPG Tactics spin-off in the series: "It's probably about time that we do a new one"
- After making $2 billion in 10 years, The Elder Scrolls Online's director wants you to know that the MMO is definitely "one of the successful live service games"
- CD Projekt exec pokes fun at Ubisoft's "AAAA" game Skull and Bones, says the studio will now make "AAAAA" games
- Helldivers 2 devs "actually expected a lot less players to move to the Automaton front," but a full 70% of the game's community was fighting the good fight
- April 5
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- Sims 4 fan loses sex speedrun record they've held for nearly a year, only to reclaim it 2 days later by one-tenth of a second: "Summoning Salt, my DMs are open"
- Even in demo form, PS5 action-RPG Stellar Blade draws high praise in tech analysis for excellent 60 FPS performance and 4K resolution modes
- After 13 years, one of my favorite romance anime is miraculously getting a new season on Netflix – and the first trailer is so good it hurts
- Drew Barrymore says Adam Sandler is making Happy Gilmore 2
- Kevin Eastman brings his TMNT style magic to a totally brutal Wolverine cover
- Take down a totalitarian company-state with circuit puzzles in Linkito, coming to Steam this month
- Game of Thrones prequel Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight finds its leads
- Star Wars Outlaws gets a 3-minute trailer all about the story in 4 days, way ahead of Ubisoft's big summer showcase
- Invincible creator addresses the season 2 finale's surprise Fortnite crossover and the legally distinct Spider-Man parody: "I'm pretty sure Marvel found out about it today"
- The Frostpunk 2 beta will give you an early taste of the survival city builder this month, but you're going to have to pay for it
- Helldivers 2 is never removing friendly fire, but it is adding a heavy armor set with 90% explosive resistance to help you survive things like 380mm barrages
- Todd Howard says a Fallout TV show has been in talks for 16 years, and its producers are "sweating every pixel"
- With just 25% liberation after 28 hours, Helldivers 2 players worry for the new Major Order and its all-out assault on Automatons: "There's no chance we're doing this"
- Starfield lead and Bethesda RPG veteran praises Dragon's Dogma 2: "When people talk about the way Skyrim makes them feel, that's how I feel playing Dragon's Dogma 2"
- After disappointing Star Wars Battlefront re-releases, modders take things into their own hands and create a custom server platform for Dice's Battlefront 2
- MMO baron tries to flex his near-incomparable fortune but accidentally gives the whole thing away: "That's not good"
- Misguided Dragon's Dogma 2 modders make the RPG worse by dumbing down the Dragonsplague, and yes I'll die on this hill
- Star Trek Discovery showrunner says that they will be following up a 30-year-old mystery that was never addressed: "You don’t just let that go"
- As Final Fantasy 14's visual overhaul nears, the Elder Scrolls MMO developers acknowledge improved technology is really important
- Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld's comic Avengelyne is getting a movie adaptation – and Margot Robbie is set to produce
- Dune director Denis Villeneuve is making a movie about nuclear war – and it sounds chilling
- Hit strategy RPG Unicorn Overlord is a "spiritual successor" to a niche PS Vita game its developer released 11 years ago
- New action movie with 100% Rotten Tomatoes score described as "The Raid on a train" as it unveils its first trailer
- Dev Patel talks performing and directing himself with "so much rage" in his new action movie Monkey Man
- Nearly 7 years on, two Assassin's Creed Origins leads both want a sequel to continue Aya and Bayek's stories
- Animal Crossing: New Leaf completionists race against time to help each other finish their towns before Nintendo turns off 3DS and Wii U servers in 3 days
- Invincible creator teases season 3, and says every episode will feel like a finale
- It's official: Dune 3 is happening
- Down-bad Dragon's Dogma 2 fans have one solution to the RPG's "hilariously janky" romance options - let us smooch the Pawns, god dang it
- The new Fantastic Four poster has a hidden detail that all but confirms the movie won't be set in the main MCU
- Avatar: The Last Airbender showrunner surprisingly departs, meaning the Netflix series will have more showrunners than seasons
- Red Dead Redemption 2 fan puts their mobile through the wringer by running the open-world cowboy game on it "very poorly"
- Square Enix reportedly shakes up one of its most underrated JRPG series by removing a Dragon Quest veteran of 22 years, with Nier Automata's producer tipped to take over
- The First Omen star says creepy Apple TV+ series Servant helped prepare her for horror prequel – and reveals which scene she found the most disturbing as a viewer
- Hotly-anticipated sci-fi narrative Sky of Tides brings a touch of Disco Elysium to a shattered planet
- BattleJuice Alchemist puts a potion-flinging spin on the RPG formula
- April 4
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- Doctor Doom is soaked in blood and Silver Surfer returns to Earth in July Blood Hunters solicitations
- The hard-to-put-down Deep Rock Galactic roguelike has already killed over 36 million Dwarves, but rest assured, "management is happy with your performance"
- In a year filled with 100-hour RPGs, this "short and sweet" tribute to the best Zelda game is exactly what I need
- Elder Scrolls Online studio head says Skyrim completely changed what people even thought an Elder Scrolls RPG was, so the MMO "had to radically change lots of things"
- Netflix’s new #1 movie is a remake of a French classic with divisive reviews
- Alicia Masters is a noir private eye helping femme fatale Sue Storm in Fantastic Four #19
- Tales of the Jedi makes a surprise return with a Dark Side anthology bringing back a ton of evil fan favorites - and it's out on Star Wars day
- Destiny 2 is bringing back some of the most broken guns in the MMO's history, but Bungie says they're less broken now
- Alongside a widely praised new Palworld patch, the survival game devs are already promising a summer update with a "new island" and "many new Pals"
- These are the five comics Marvel says you should read ahead of Fantastic Four
- Since 2022, one Skyrim speedrunner has set 14 straight glitchless world records - now the RPG's old champion has reclaimed his crown: "I finally f***ing did it"
- Stellar Blade won't charge for post-launch DLC like New Game+, director says the action RPG "will not require any additional expenses that gamers are not aware of"
- New Helldivers 2 Warbond coming next week, and it's got a grenade pistol, explosive crossbow, and a Booster for shorter Extraction times
- The canceled Dark Knight-era Batman game that eventually turned into the best Lord of the Rings game has appeared online after a 10-year absence
- Helldivers 2 dev offers rare insight into how Major Orders and the Galactic War get written: "It's not as fun of a story if we just steamroll the Automatons and win"
- Gillian Anderson says she’s up for reprising her role as Scully in Ryan Coogler's X-Files reboot: "Maybe I'll pop in for a little something something"
- New MMO from former WoW lead gets the earliest first look I've ever seen, and it's the kind of ugly I want every game dev to feel comfortable sharing
- New look at MCU's Fantastic Four movie features a hidden Easter egg confirming Galactus
- The first Palworld Raid has arrived, and the survival game's community is shouting one base-saving tip from the rooftops: "Bellanoir will destroy everything you build"
- Following outcry from Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth achievement hunters, the RPG's next patch will squash a bug stopping them from earning the coveted Platinum Trophy
- Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2024 to broadcast on Saturday June 8
- Helldivers 2 Game Master Joel wants to crush the Automatons once and for all, with a new Major Order tasking players with liberating 3 planets in under 4 days
- First look at new Bride of Frankenstein movie sees Christian Bale as Frankenstein's monster, and teases a Dark Knight reunion
- Cruella director to helm new Supergirl movie starring House of the Dragon's Milly Alcock
- Mike Flanagan says his beloved horror with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score has a new home, after it disappeared from all streaming services
- Pokemon fan sells childhood card collection for $24 before making a stunning u-turn to save one ultra-rare card worth up to $3,250
- The Sandman star explains the similarities between Death and her role in detective drama Sugar
- Westworld creator promises fans the show will "100%" be completed somehow, despite its HBO cancellation
- First teaser for new Bambi horror movie from Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey universe sees the deer out for revenge
- That new Godzilla design from Godzilla x Kong was inspired by Dragon Ball
- Pokemon fans are in shambles as The Pokemon Company publishes the first-ever official Shiny hunting guide for Scarlet and Violet
- Helldivers 2 references one of Starship Trooper's worst characters via its new levelling system
- As Helldivers 2 players debate the value of 2-Person Weapons, dev tells them that "it's fine if some mechanics are just there for lulz and roleplay"
- Anime streamer Crunchyroll is adding multiple much-requested new features
- Just like the original RPG, Dragon's Dogma 2 quietly creates 'fake' players to hire your Pawns if they're unpopular losers
- Bloody first trailer for Euphoria star's new horror movie with a great Rotten Tomatoes score is here – and it's bonkers
- Punisher actor Jon Bernthal shares sweet behind-the-scenes Daredevil reunion picture – as the first official look at the Marvel show is 0.2 seconds of peak cinema
- Helldivers 2's Quasar Cannon becomes even more of a fan-favorite as players realize it one-shots bot ships of every flavor, including the new Gunships
- Unicorn Overlord devs have no DLC or PC port plans for the hit strategy RPG, though one survey has fans hoping for a sequel
- We now know the identity of Fantastic Four’s main villain following Silver Surfer casting news
- Palworld patch adds slew of new items, abilities, and quality-of-life changes, leading to "amazing" praise from players: "These guys keep knocking it out of the park"
- Invincible’s impossible Marvel crossover doesn’t happen in season 2, but the show handles it in the best possible way
- April 3
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- Julia Garner joins Marvel's Fantastic Four reboot as the Silver Surfer, but not the one you're expecting
- Colin Farrell says he has never read anything like his new detective drama Sugar before: "There was this kind of innocence"
- Helldivers 2's new Gunship factories seem to only have one weak point, and players are struggling: "The Hellbomb won't even kill it half the time"
- Dragon's Dogma 2 players have quietly devised a way to warn others of the dreaded Dragonsplague - but it might not be enough
- New Matrix movie in the works from The Cabin in the Woods director
- Netflix's The Sandman spooky spin-off show Dead Boy Detectives gets thrilling first trailer
- Elden Ring magician uses nothing but a saxophone to beat all 7 Great Rune bosses - including Malenia - without taking a hit
- My Hero Academia season 7 release schedule: when is episode 21 on Crunchyroll?
- After Diablo 4's bumpy Season 3, fans reckon the new Season 4 PTR glimpses a long-awaited turning point for the RPG
- Nintendo's latest survey has fans wondering if new Mario RPGs are on the way
- 20 years later, GTA: San Andreas developer comes face-to-face with the "embarrassing" bug behind the game's infamous plane crashes
- Dune 2 actor has "no regrets" about being cut from the movie, but warns we'll never see the deleted scenes
- The Witcher Season 4 casts District 9 star as perhaps the most evil character in the entire series
- World of Warcraft veteran is showing his new MMO soon, even though it'll "look like ass" - "I need y'all to not freak out about what a game in prototype looks like"
- 7 years into its legendary comeback, No Man's Sky claws back another 1% on its Steam review score: "I never thought it possible, but guys we might hit 'Very Positive' one day"
- Stellar Blade's dev working on a new "cross-platform next-gen" game after its PS5 exclusive
- Hellboy's Mike Mignola just did a stunning Batman cover for a story that rectifies the Dark Knight's greatest mistake almost 40 years later
- Madame Web concept art looks to reveal plans for a scrapped Spider-Man/Ezekiel showdown
- The Elder Scrolls 6 devs are sharing lore responsibilities with the team behind The Elder Scrolls MMO
- New space RPG from Mass Effect veteran takes a hard sci-fi approach to FTL travel, and that means there's nothing that can save you from the ravages of time
- The Suicide Squad battle pass can be smashed through in just 17 hours - as long as you skip all the missions and murder hordes of giant red spiders
- The most terrifying found footage horror short has mysteriously landed on YouTube, and it will make you want to get rid of all your home security video cameras for good
- Kirsten Dunst would have been up for appearing in Spider-Man: No Way Home, but Marvel didn't ask
- The new roguelike from the Dead Cells devs looks like an incredible co-op Hades where the dodge is intentionally overpowered
- Zoe Saldaña thinks it would be a "huge loss" for the MCU if the Guardians of the Galaxy never returned
- Helldivers 2 honors fallen soldiers with a free cape as part of 'Malevelon Creek Memorial Day,' including a presidential directive from Super Earth's leader
- Red Dead Redemption 2 dataminer discovers "incredibly rare" audio blooper that offers a peek behind the Rockstar curtain
- A new horror movie with "literally no budget" and a four-minute fight scene between a talking napkin and an evil top hat has the weirdest trailer you’ll see all year
- Final Fantasy 16's Clive Rosfield has come to Final Fantasy 14, and the MMO's infamously down-bad community is ensuring the Dominant will never know peace
- Joker 2 has officially been rated R but not for the reason you might expect
- Want your very own life-sized M3GAN? Now you can have one
- Sam Raimi wants to direct Avengers: Secret Wars, but Marvel hasn't asked him yet
- Stellar Blade director recommends players make Eve wear actual clothes "as much as possible" in the action-RPG, instead of the NSFW 'Skin Suit'
- New action movie Monkey Man was "dead in the water in a certain way" before Get Out's Jordan Peele came on-board
- Despite reports of its cancellation and Embracer's $500m sale, the Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic remake is still "alive and well"
- In a move Helldivers 2 soldiers call "uncalled for," devs nerf shotgun key to the war effort as it was "hands down the best sniper rifle" in the game
- New Daredevil set video appears to show Charlie Cox teaming up with Jon Bernthal’s Punisher
- After 15 years, the anime reboot fans never thought would actually happen is finally here – and is already a huge hit
- A 24-hour free giveaway sent Steam's new viral co-op mega-hit to the moon, with 6.2 million owners after its first day
- The First Omen star Bill Nighy reveals the biggest thing that attracted him to the horror prequel: "It explodes expectation"
- April 2
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- Apex Legends update breaks the game so hard that players lose hundreds of account levels and months of battle pass progress, Respawn tells players to "hang tight"
- Colin Farrell says his upcoming Batman spin-off show The Penguin is "dark" and relentless
- Dragon Age creative director is back with a "very different game" that's a dreamy mix of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Shadow of the Colossus with 25-meter bosses
- Ex Machina and Civil War director is retiring from filmmaking after losing passion despite great reactions to his latest film
- After Sony knocked it off track, Bloodborne Kart is now "legally distinct" and finally set to launch for free in May
- Sydney Sweeney watching her new nun-themed horror movie in a church with real pastors is the best thing you’ll see all day
- Daisy Ridley would "love" John Boyega's Finn to become a Jedi in her new Star Wars movie
- Helldivers 2 director joins fans rallying around player "disheartened" to find the shooter's anti-cheat gets in the way of their accessibility tools
- Palworld community manager hits back at DokeV being a "Palworld killer," says the open-world RPG "looks incredible" and games don't have to compete
- Oh no, Helldivers 2 players are also getting wrecked by new Automaton Factory Striders that are built like Star Wars AT-ATs and apparently spawn waves of Devastators
- The X-Files creator gives his blessing to Ryan Coogler's reboot, but says the show will now face a new problem
- From Oldboy to I Saw the Devil, these Korean movies are the inspiration behind new action thriller Monkey Man
- Game of Thrones showrunners reveal their favorite death of the entire series – and it’s a fan favorite, too
- Daryl and Carol go on the rampage in new teaser for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 2
- Oh good, Helldivers 2's new Automaton Gunships are very real and here to obliterate Super Earth’s forces from the skies
- Godzilla x Kong had a back-up plan in case they couldn't get *that* kaiju back
- Sam Raimi names a horror movie with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score as his favorite recently released film
- Stardew Valley fans are still obsessed with mayonnaise, and it reached a new disturbing peak over April Fool's Day
- The Godfather director's next film is said to be "batsh*t crazy" with a "baffling ending"
- Season two of this hit anime show with 100% Rotten Tomatoes score has been confirmed with new trailer
- More than 3 years since its disastrous launch, Cyberpunk 2077 CEO says he's "finally happy" with the RPG
- Square Enix teases a remaster for a 25-year-old JRPG gem that experiments with branching storylines, open-world exploration, and watercolor design: "Please wait a little longer"
- RPGs are so hot right now: Dragon’s Dogma 2 sells 2.5 million copies in a week, while Unicorn Overlord races past 500,000 copies sold
- Gen V cast pays tribute to "superhero" co-star Chance Perdomo after his death
- Sam Raimi sets the record straight on rumored Spider-Man 4
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is "off to the races already," according to its director, who also wants to be "done with this absolute marathon of projects"
- Daredevil set picture all but confirms Jon Bernthal will be returning as the Punisher in the MCU
- Doctor Who episode titles for Ncuti Gatwa’s first season have been announced, so let the theories commence
- Hi-Fi Rush headlines PLAY's first Xbox cover
- New Helldivers 2 patch unleashes blizzards and sandstorms, and quietly increases the level cap to help you manage democracy even harder
- I've found the best skill in Dragon's Dogma 2 - an arrow that lets you nearly kill yourself so that you can one-shot a dragon
- Hours after claiming Malevelon Creek, Helldivers 2 players spot massive cloaked gunships above Automaton worlds, which seems bad
- After Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Nobuo Uematsu says he started adding Latin to epic songs because "if no one understands the language, then it's fair for everyone"
- April 1
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- After 29 years, an infamously trashy '90s FPS where you smack walking butts with a frying pan is getting the remaster it probably never deserved
- Black Widow is Marvel's "deadliest Avenger," and she's keeping her Venom symbiote, thanks
- Chaos reigns as new Hollow Knight Silksong store page found on April 1 of all days, Xbox marketing exec says it's not a joke
- New Doctor Who trailer promises a wild and wacky adventure with dinosaurs, a trip to the '60s, and "space babies"
- Ori boss on why the studio's new action RPG isn't $70: "We're not hiring hundreds of people just to create an illusion for shareholders that we're growing"
- No April Fools' joke: This co-op horror game where you "get famous or die trying" is like Dark and Darker but you're a YouTuber, and it's free for 24 hours
- Classic British horror comic Misty is returning with a new anthology this summer, courtesy of incoming X-Men writer Gail Simone
- Cyberpunk 2077 is now being carried by just 17 devs, CD Projekt Red says "things may change one day, but as for now, 17 is enough"
- The Witcher 4 won't be "The Witcher 3 in new clothing," CDPR says "we will be adding new gameplay elements and new mechanics" to the RPG
- After a failed Major Order, Helldivers 2 boss says the devs are "talking about" making planets clearer, one player-made idea is "surprisingly close to what we had"
- Minecraft now has Spider-Man swinging and an entire potato dimension in a very real April Fools update celebrating the survival game's most useless item
- After weeks of attrition, Helldivers 2 players took Malevelon Creek in just hours following a new Major Order – but the bots already want it back
- The First Omen stars explain how the horror prequel puts a modern spin on the 'period movie'
