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- August 31
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- Minecraft meets Stardew Valley in the excellent survival game Core Keeper, and it's huge 1.0 launch makes its creator feel he "must be dreaming"
- Self-taught Metroidvania dev floored by 200k sales and 10k Steam reviews while preparing for a new game "hopefully soon"
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard has Baldur's Gate 3-style nudity toggles and customizable underwear
- Devil May Cry and Dragon's Dogma director Hideaki Itsuno is leaving Capcom after 30 years to make a "new game in a new environment"
- August 30
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- Borderlands 4 will add "4 brand-new Vault Hunters," and the devs want classes to add depth to the RPG mechanics but not "at the cost of complexity"
- Netflix cancels Sandman spin-off after 1 season, ending yet another fan-favorite fantasy series
- After version 62, Lethal Company dev says he's "burning out" on the multiplayer hit and may focus more on his single-player horror adventure for a while
- Amid Risk of Rain 2 DLC blowback, the roguelike's creators say "it sucks" for fans and the new devs at Gearbox, but those new devs say fixes are coming and this is "just the beginning"
- Civilization 7 lead says the new Ages system will be "the hardest thing" for fans to learn: "It changes the fundamental structure of the game"
- One of anime's best studios teases a cryptic Transformers project, and all we know is that it's "coming soon"
- Fallout: New Vegas modder wields "creative freedom" to add rideable horses to Obsidian's epic Western RPG
- New true crime series that's rising up Netflix's top TV chart lands perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- As his cat-eugenics roguelike inches closer, The Binding of Isaac creator says he hates everything about releasing games, which is probably why Rebirth got so much DLC
- Nier creator Yoko Taro says Persona devs' new JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio is "so stylish I almost wet myself," and no, he "didn't get any money" to say that
- Nintendo accidentally created one of the best-selling PS1 games by saying no to a 3D Yoshi platformer that Miyamoto "loved," and after 27 years it's getting remastered
- Star Wars: Battle of Jakku will finally tell the "lost story" of the 30-year gap between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens
- As the Borderlands movie slides into oblivion and Risk of Rain 2's new DLC burns, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford compares himself to The Beatles, who he says only "had a 25% hit rate"
- Echoes of Wisdom is Zelda's first solo adventure in 38 years, but it lets her transform into a Link-lookalike anyway
- George R R Martin pledges to share "everything that's gone wrong with House of the Dragon" following divisive second season
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice writers explain the importance of not having too much Beetlejuice in the sequel: "He's literally the antagonist"
- Star Wars star Ahmed Best says he stands "in solidarity" with The Acolyte's Amandla Stenberg
- JRPG icon Hironobu Sakaguchi reckons Final Fantasy 6 is the "most complete" game in the series, "especially because it was the last Final Fantasy to use pixel art"
- The Penguin team explain why they didn't feel the need to have Batman cameo in the show: "You're going down a different alley"
- Over 1000 episodes of one of the world's biggest anime shows is coming to the UK for free
- Russell T Davies says he's hopeful that Doctor Who will be renewed for season 3, but adds that there is no update yet
- It's taken years, but Banjo-Kazooie fans have finally finished decompiling the code of Rare's classic 3D platformer, paving the way for new community experiences
- The Invincible live-action movie is still in development, but creator Robert Kirkman reveals why it's taking so long
- The Penguin producer says that you don’t need to watch The Batman to enjoy the spin-off, but it does "enrich" it
- Agatha All Along showrunner explains how WandaVision-themed drag brunches inspired the Marvel spin-off: "I wanted this show to be worthy of that type of fandom"
- The Guardians of the Galaxy face an army of undead Avengers in Marvel Zombies: Dawn of Decay
- Deadlock players were abusing its pause function, so Valve is limiting their powers in the MOBA/shooter hybrid's first major patch
- We still don't know who Joe Locke is playing in Agatha All Along, as the Heartstopper actor says not all of your fan theories are correct: "Most people are very not on it"
- Total Film is hosting an exclusive preview screening of Speak No Evil - apply for tickets now!
- Star Wars Outlaws stormtroopers don't have seatbelts, and that means players are already turning their speeders into death traps
- A new Marvel video rounds up the deep cut Deadpool and Wolverine Easter eggs you almost certainly missed
- Netflix's new Terminator anime show debuts to a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes
- Warhammer Age of Sigmar introduces one of its first nonbinary human heroes
- After 27 long years, Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions finally acknowledges that Quidditch is a dumb sport - by hard-nerfing the Golden Snitch
- Visions of Mana has only been out for a day, but its developer has reportedly lost most of its staff and is at risk of shutdown
- Speak No Evil director defends remaking a two-year-old movie and changing one of its best scenes: "I wanted to make a film that is tense"
- Don't worry, Kiryu's iconic suit is in the upcoming Like a Dragon: Yakuza show – here's the first look
- Acclaimed Metroidvania studio finally gets to celebrate its update launch after its publisher's demise led to uncertainty over the game's future
- Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin 2 were priced "below their value" because Larian devs "had faith" they could recover the cost
- The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon showrunner explains why they'll never make Daryl and Carol a couple
- August 29
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- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 makes a huge change to weapon camos and "takes inspiration" from previous games: no more gun level requirements, saving a ton of time
- After 20 minutes of screentime across 5 movies, Lord of the Rings actor Hugo Weaving admits he doesn’t think of his Elrond "with the same sort of stature" as fans do
- Arthur Morgan actor shares his personal "canon ending" for Red Dead Redemption 2, and reckons half the endings don't make sense for Arthur anyway
- Remedy confirms the Alan Wake AMC TV series is dead as it announces new partnership with Annapurna to "develop and produce Control and Alan Wake franchises for film and television"
- New Jurassic World movie from Rogue One director gets first look and release date
- Julia Garner has the landlords from hell in new Rosemary's Baby prequel trailer
- And you thought the Borderlands movie's $90m flop was harsh: Gearbox is getting eviscerated for botching the first Risk of Rain 2 DLC it's made after buying the IP
- A classic DC supervillain team makes a surprise 60th anniversary comeback
- Win Boy Kills World on Blu-ray
- Call of Duty voice chat reaches its final form, gives enemy players a way to scream at you mere inches from your ear by using you as a meat shield
- Sigourney Weaver says studio was "idiotic" to not support David Fincher's vision on Alien 3
- Take revenge on the company that worked you into the grave with Office Fight's physics-based destruction
- After 13 years, roguelike icon The Binding of Isaac is finally getting online multiplayer just in time for Rebirth's anniversary
- Warhammer Nova Open 2024 reveals at a glance, from 40K favorites to Age of Sigmar
- Win Orca: The Killer Whale on Blu-ray
- Stray Bullets creator David Lapham makes his EC Comics debut with a gruesome sci-fi shocker
- Hollow Knight: Silksong fans tragically trolled by a random Steam update listed as "for beta testing"
- Netflix's Peaky Blinders movie cast is only getting more star-studded, with Barry Keoghan joining the line-up
- Ryan Reynolds joins stars calling for a stunt Oscars category as he praises Deadpool and Wolverine team
- The Rings of Power season 2's blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment has ties to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Legendary designer behind F-Zero and Star Fox nearly worked at Konami, but his mom told him to take the job at Nintendo
- This new season of an under the radar Apple TV thriller lands a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- Michael Keaton says that he let Tim Burton down in one of their movies together: "I was clueless… I sucked"
- One Rings of Power actor pulls double duty in surprising fashion - with this unrecognizable season 2 voice role
- "It's been a minute": 11 years later, this former Terraria dev's sci-fi sandbox game is finally coming to Xbox
- Cyberpunk 2077 sequel will "double the headcount" at its studio as it nears the end of its research phase
- Fantastic Four’s The Thing gets its first look in leaked set photos with a comic book accurate retro aesthetic
- The Acolyte star says the cancelation was "not a huge shock" and calls out "rampage of vitriol" against the Star Wars show
- Sigourney Weaver would "consider" an Alien return, but questions whether we need another Ripley movie
- Hideo Kojima says he's working on Death Stranding 2's "specs and flow," and adding details, abating fan fears of a larger overhaul
- Resident Evil creator says not to expect a new Dino Crisis since Monster Hunter has "nailed down" the "awesomeness of dinosaurs"
- The 3DS and Wii U era gets another nail in the coffin as Nintendo stops repairing New 3DS consoles in Japan
- 4 years after it was destroyed, Call of Duty: Warzone's Verdansk map will make a comeback in 2025
- Who is the Dark Wizard in The Rings of Power season 2? All the theories about Ciarán Hinds’ character
- Shelob makes a brief appearance in The Rings of Power season 2 – here’s everything you need to know about Frodo’s former giant spider foe
- Who is Círdan the Shipwright? The new Rings of Power character plays a key part in Tolkien's books
- All of the Rings of Power in Lord of the Rings explained
- Galadriel's vision in The Rings of Power season 2 is an ominous sign of things to come – if you know your Tolkien
- The Rings of Power season 2 episodes 1-3 recap and Easter eggs: Sauron rises as darkness falls over Middle-earth
- Why did an eagle show up in The Rings of Power season 2? It's (probably) bad news for Numenor
- Who is Annatar? Everything you need to know about Sauron's disguise in The Rings of Power season 2
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 begins today, bringing a new tide of darkness to Middle-earth
- August 28
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- Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P says there's an "extremely low" number of Xbox players in Japan, but Dawntrail is the "starting point" of more Square Enix games on Xbox
- Metal Gear Solid 4 still hasn't been confirmed for modern platforms, but a Konami producer says "you can probably connect the dots"
- Two of the most iconic alien parasites in fiction collide as Aliens Vs. Avengers #1 pits a Venom symbiote against a Xenomorph facehugger
- Eric Barone says "I have not touched Haunted Chocolatier in a long time" because he's still working on getting Stardew Valley 1.6 to console
- Star Wars Outlaws release time – Ubisoft's open-world game set in a galaxy far, far away is nearly here
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice first reactions call it a "bonkers, sweet, and twistedly funny" sequel that brings back the "old Tim Burton"
- The "largest ever" DDOS attack was reportedly the "carpet bombing" of a Minecraft server weathering 3.15 billion packets per second from Russia and 17 other countries
- My favorite part of this stunning PS1-style indie inspired by Silent Hill and PT isn't that it takes after the all-time horror greats, it's that it only lasts as long as a movie
- There's no sign of Call of Duty's beloved Nuketown map in Black Ops 6 - except for its "birthplace" in Warzone's Area 99 and a nuked version in Sandhouse
- As World of Warcraft: The War Within paid early access ends, Blizzard makes leveling slower in the MMO's new expansion, and the community's not loving the timing
- Baldur's Gate 3 cut content breakthrough turns up 15 minutes of "impossible" scenes including more Shadowheart hugs and some surprisingly relevant Minthara dialogue
- Early Star Wars Outlaws PS5 players paid $110 only to have Ubisoft issue a new patch and tell them to start a new save file or face game-breaking bugs
- Hyper-realistic Sims 4 competitor inZOI has a "3D print" feature that lets you turn real-life photos into in-game items, and it works surprisingly well
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 director reveals that one of his first jobs in the industry was animating Shadow for a video game – and now he's bringing him to the big screen
- D&D newbies will have to wait more than a year for an up-to-date starter set
- Everything revealed at D&D Direct 2024, from new adventures to Project Sigil details
- The Witcher 4 has made "substantial progress" in 2024 and will soon advance to the "full production phase"
- Space Usagi's daughter Akemi embarks on her first solo adventure in a new short story to accompany the rabbit ronin's latest collection
- Skyrim modder creates hilarious "new tech" for the RPG so he can voice the Dragonborn in real-time while his Twitch chat voices NPCs
- Metroid co-creator and a Nintendo veteran of 42 years came out of writing retirement just to work on the first Famicom Detective Club game in 35 years
- The latest Razer pro controller is going to make PS5 players very jealous
- D&D Direct reveals 2025 plans to return to the setting of Baldur’s Gate 3
- Terrifier 3 gets a full length trailer at last, and it's just as gory as we had hoped with flesh eating demons and killer clowns galore
- Monster Hunter Wilds took over 5 years to make partly because Monster Hunter World blew up so hard that Capcom had to figure out what all these new fans would want
- New trailer for Hellboy: The Crooked Man looks like a folk horror nightmare
- After 967 deaths, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree player takes the 'no Scadutree blessing' challenge to the next level by beating the entire DLC on uncapped NG +1,000
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director wants no part of the debate on whether Final Fantasy 17 should be turn-based, because Square Enix can do "whatever they want with it" and it'll still succeed
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice just keeps getting better as iconic rock bands rumored to appear on the soundtrack
- Tales of Graces f Remastered is only the first of many remakes that fans of Bandai Namco's beloved JRPG series can expect
- City-builder dev says indies need "half a million" in profit to make more money than Valve, decries the 30% Steam store tax as a "relic" that "needs to go down"
- Game of Thrones star offers positive update on Toxic Avenger reboot which was thought to have been potentially dropped
- One of Mike Flanagan's best horror movies is now available on digital after being removed from Netflix – and the director teases "more big news"
- Final Fantasy 14's controversial Viper changes were a hot topic within the dev team, too, as Yoshi-P admits the alterations were being considered "right until the last minute"
- The Walking Dead's Daryl Dixon kicks off production on season 3 with a suitably on-brand announcement
- Rumored The Mandalorian & Grogu actor confirms she'll be starring in the movie
- Monster Hunter Wilds DLC won't include any "pay-to-win items" but will remain cosmetic only, as "always" in the action RPG series
- The Crow original director slams the Bill Skarsgård reboot: "I thought it was a cynical cash grab. Not much cash to grab it seems"
- Helldivers 2 creative boss agrees the game has gotten less about "a fun, chaotic, challenging, emergent experience" and too much about "challenge and competitiveness"
- One shot from the Sonic 3 trailer has fans convinced a major character will die – and we're not talking about Maria
- Balatro's Witcher 3 collab came to life thanks to a senior CDPR employee "getting many colleagues on board" with the hit indie roguelike
- Bandai Namco MMO Blue Protocol has been outright canceled because it will "not be possible to provide a service that satisfies" players
- August 27
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- God of War star Christopher Judge brings the hammer down on Amazon exec's "we don't really have acting" in video games AI defense, praises The Last of Us 2 performance
- The retro collection Tetris has always deserved is finally coming, complete with the incredible SNES battle Tetris variant that's been lost in Japan for 31 years
- Jujutsu Kaisen is getting a movie made from one of the anime's best arcs
- Shigeru Miyamoto would get "angry" during Zelda: Twilight Princess development and ask things like "who put this stone here" – now Tears of the Kingdom has a tool for that
- After 29 years, the secret best PS1 JRPGs finally return with the Suikoden HD remasters that were beginning to look like vaporware
- Amazon Prime gives out 3 free Lord of the Rings games to celebrate The Rings of Power season 2, but you might not be able to play one of them
- After flopping at the box office, the Borderlands movie is officially giving up on theaters and heading straight to digital home video this week
- Yellowjackets season 3 casts Community and The Bear star in guest role
- The Total Film FrightFest Awards 2024: the big winners from this year's horror festival
- Genshin Impact 5.0 Mualani release time – Here's when the new Natlan 5-star Hydro character comes out and who's on her banner
- Pizza Tower hits Switch today, and after 19 months of begging, fans of the Wario Land throwback couldn't be happier: "My Switch has a purpose now"
- Square Enix and Lego made just two Final Fantasy 7 sets based on one of the JRPG's most iconic moments, and someone just bought one of them for $12,500
- Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford wanted Tiny Tina's Wonderlands campaign DLC, but there was "no way to do that and put the focus on Borderlands 4 that we needed to"
- The Rings of Power season 2’s most mysterious new character is already sparking theories, but no one will tell me anything about the Dark Wizard
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle devs are "thrilled" to bring the game to PS5, which won't be too hard because it was made with multiplatform tech anyway
- MMO fiend falls asleep on stream while grinding 17 World of Warcraft characters to The War Within's level cap in one day: "I don't recommend doing this yourself"
- Netflix drops new Monster trailer, and it looks like this season may be as just as bloody and emotional as the Jeffrey Dahmer story
- The new Rune Factory spin-off looks like much more than a Stardew Valley-like JRPG – its breathtaking Eastern-inspired world has dragons, magic, and more
- Good Omens star Michael Sheen says the final season will be a "satisfying experience" for fans
- Shadow the Hedgehog is "not Vegeta in any way," and is "not friends with Sonic," his creator says
- After four years and 141 chapters, Jujutsu Kaisen brings back a long-thought-dead character for its final arc
- Ryan Reynolds reveals a hidden Gambit scene from Deadpool and Wolverine – and it involves the Avengers: Endgame
- Sea of Stars: Throes of the Watchmaker is out for free in Spring 2025, expanding on the smash-hit throwback JRPG with a new character, abilities, and more
- Poker roguelike Balatro gets a free update featuring iconic indie games like The Witcher 3, Vampire Survivors, and Among Us, and yes you read that right
- My most anticipated anime movie of 2024 finally gets a western release date
- Wizards of the Coast admit MTG Modern Horizons 3's Nadu was a “design mistake”
- After months of waiting, the Sonic 3 trailer is here with the first look at Keanu Reeves' Shadow the Hedgehog – and an unlikely Robotnik team-up
- Jessica Alba has some advice for Fantastic Four's new Sue Storm actor Vanessa Kirby
- "I don't care if it's good": Quentin Tarantino refuses to watch Toy Story 4 because the third movie has the perfect ending
- A huge Lord of the Rings battle is adapted over 3 episodes in The Rings of Power season 2, and the showrunners say it took a year of planning
- James Gunn seems to be teasing that Guardians of the Galaxy actors will be making the jump to DC
- Civilization 7 lets you "change the course of your own history" between each of its ages, before everything culminates in "sudden death"
- Shadow the Hedgehog co-creator says Sonic 3 is a "really, really good movie"
- The Monster Hunter Wilds map is twice as big as Monster Hunter World's Wildspire Waste, according to one dedicated mapper
- Why did The Acolyte get canceled? New details surrounding the Star Wars show's production reportedly reveal the reasons
- Fallout: New Vegas' "large, interconnected story" where "any character can die" is the best comparison for Atomfall's apocalyptic RPG structure
- Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp players blast "greedy" Nintendo as new items roll out despite the game's imminent shutdown
- Ted Lasso will reportedly lose one of its major players for its shock season 4 return
- One year on, a key Ahsoka detail has been deciphered – and it might hint at huge things for season 2
- Deadlock is "going to easily take over," says streamer Shroud, adding that it's the "best third-person shooter I've ever played"
- Baldur's Gate 3 devs finally prepare to "close the book" on the D&D RPG with one last "cathartic" panel before moving on to "what's next"
- Fallout veteran says he was so proud to see the TV show succeed - especially given the Borderlands movie's $90m failure
- Catastrophe: Deadlock's Steam store page breaks Valve's own rules, so Valve is going to have to police Valve
- Halo Infinite dev shuts down complaints that players were banned for teabagging: "Yeah, that's not a thing"
- Rockstar was reportedly considering a GTA 3 sequel called Grand Theft Auto: Tokyo, but it "was just cooler to stick with" established places like Vice City and San Andreas
- August 26
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- Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone has been trying to make a Fortnite crossover happen and already has a few ideas: "I would be open to anything"
- Assassin's Creed Visionaries is back with two new comic tales of bloody murder set among China's Opium Wars and ancient Viking raids
- BioWare explains what Dragon Age: The Veilguard companions actually do in combat, revealing all 5 abilities for the RPG's 7 party members
- Mass Effect and Assassin's Creed vet says sequels rule because that's when devs "can make the game they really wanted to make the first time"
- Original Silent Hill 2 composer "remade all the original tracks and added new ones" for the upcoming remake: "After 25 years, my approach to music has evolved"
- The Twisters cast watched David Corenswet go from villain to hero as he got the Superman role – and their reactions are the most wholesome thing you'll see today
- Why doesn't Monster Hunter Wilds bring back underwater combat? Former series producer reckons it's like making a whole extra game: "It's really, super hard"
- Blair Witch Project producer says we've been watching the wrong version of the iconic horror film for years
- Bethesda veteran says we could be watching Fallout TV shows "for 50 years, just like Lord of the Rings," and "it could be an IP that your grandkids are playing"
- Assassin's Creed actor "honored" to return as fan-favorite Ezio in the most unlikely place - AEW wrestler Will Ospreay's entrance at Wembley Stadium
- Dying Light dev says we're all too obsessed with "the number of hours a game can offer" and shorter games like the 18+ hour Dying Light: The Beast feel like "the future"
- The Acolyte star is "quite surprised" at the Star Wars show being canceled, but is still holding out hope for the future: "You never know what can happen"
- Transformers writer Daniel Warren Johnson says he "can only go for so long" and reveals plans for leaving the series - eventually
- Since Dying Light: The Beast is now an "18+ hours" game, next month the devs will delist the Dying Light 2 edition that had it as DLC – but not before a final 6-day sale
- Steve Martin, Selena Gomez, and Martin Short reveal why Only Murders in the Building season 4 is the darkest one yet
- Steve Martin wants Ryan Reynolds and Cate Blanchett to guest star in Only Murders in the Building
- Alien: Romulus director says a major role was inspired by The Last of Us - and "a year later" the same actor was cast on the HBO show
- Nintendo isn't big on generative AI, and with Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was careful with automated art – "The game could potentially end up losing something valuable"
- Horror maestro and "huge fan" Mike Flanagan wants to be a part of James Gunn's DCU: "I would love to"
- August Nintendo Direct announced promising 40 minutes of third-parties and indies, Nintendo immediately says "there will be no mention" of Switch 2
- New Genshin Impact character Xilonen announced for update 5.1 – the open-world RPG's next Natlan hero and latest Geo 5-star is also another cat-girl
- After 6 years living as a monk and a total of 19 years later, MMO player returns to Old School RuneScape and proves the classic phrase: you don't quit, you take breaks
- I've never seen a survival game like this mountain climbing sim from the developers of Furi, one of my favorite boss rush games of all time
- Almost 100 years after Tolkien introduced him, Tom Bombadil actor Rory Kinnear shares why the character’s time has finally come in The Rings of Power season 2
- Randy Pitchford wasn't the only one teasing Borderlands 4, because another Gearbox developer basically spoiled the reveal trailer 2 years ago
- The Rings of Power season 2’s Sauron and Galadriel reunion will have "incredibly high stakes"
- How many episodes are in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 on Amazon Prime Video?
- Dishonored creator's Fallout: New Vegas-inspired immersive sim prefers stylized art to ultra-realism that ages fast – "Back then it was probably stunning, now you can't even look at it"
- The Rings of Power Galadriel actor thinks she and Sauron share a psychic link: "There is some sort of cosmic connection"
- Galadriel and Adar actors tease their unlikely alliance in The Rings of Power season 2: "I think it's sort of a needs must thing"
- August 25
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- Silent Hill 2 remakers didn't start with the OG Silent Hill because "the franchise is connected to Konami's plans"
- After 22 years, the one and only game Sega developed for PS1 finally has an English translation, and it's a gateway to the '00s world of J-pop idols and Hamtaro anime
- Valve and Sony's new hero shooters show the highs and lows of live service games, as Deadlock courts 64,000 players and Concord fails to reach 700 on Steam
- This dark fantasy RPG "inspired by classic Pokemon" games is giving off Darkest Dungeon and Slay the Spire vibes
- Activision reportedly canceled a Crash Bandicoot 5 that also starred Spyro because it wanted more live-service games
- August 24
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- Stellar Blade and Phantom Blade Zero studios shout out Black Myth Wukong's global success as it helps to "unite diverse cultures"
- Diablo's hack 'n' slash action meets cozy Stardew Valley town-building in this co-op game threatening all my free time
- Brutal Mickey Mouse-ish FPS that's riding the public domain all the way to Steam has both a real name and awesome new trailer
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 evolves World War Z's swarm tech to build "epic battles" with "maybe thousands of Tyrannids"
- Valve finally lifts the lid on Deadlock its 'Overwatch meets Dota' hero shooter that's already got 30,000 concurrent players
- August 23
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- Monster Hunter Wilds was "the big winner" at this year's Gamescom 2024 Awards, with Supermassive's Little Nightmares 3 following close behind
- Greedfall 2 boss says Baldur's Gate 3's breakout success "allowed us" to do early access
- Stalker 2 dev says "the game is huge," takes 100 hours to fully beat, and was built entirely "by hand"
- Silent Hill 2 veteran says the survival horror classic would have featured David Lynch-inspired multiple protagonists if it didn't make the story "too complicated"
- Cozy open-world game headed by Breath of the Wild dev already has over 12 million pre-registered players, and you'd better believe I'm one of them
- Nintendo's technical wizardry explained - Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom avoids load times by predicting when you're about to dive into The Depths
- Diablo 4 leads know you want a sword-and-board Paladin, but after 5 classic classes they wanted to go big on something new: "It's not just about rehashing old content"
- Space Marine 2 lead says Doom 2016 was a big inspiration, just as the original Doom inspired Space Marine 1 which in turn inspired Doom 2016: "It's a grand circle of coolness"
- Black Myth: Wukong is "one of the fastest-selling games of all time," beating Elden Ring and Hogwarts Legacy with 10 million copies sold in just 4 days
- This creative inZOI fan is using the hyper-realistic life sim to recreate some of The Sims 4's most iconic characters
- Avowed is "targeting 30FPS, bare minimum" on Xbox Series X/S because "you don't necessarily need 60 frames" for a first-person single-player RPG
- Space Marine 2 supersoldiers are so dang OP that you can win in multiplayer even if your "teammates are idiots"
- Netflix's One Piece season 2 just cast its most important role yet
- After making 2 acclaimed Wolfenstein FPS games, the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle devs do a complete 180: "Guns shouldn't be your first option"
- World of Warcraft grinder hits The War Within's new level cap in just 1 hour, beating their rival by minutes
- Avowed lead says the Blood Mage build is "absolutely the best way to play" the RPG, even if Obsidian stumbled on it by accident
- Life is Strange's original director feels "curious" about Max returning in Double Exposure at a different studio
- Dune: Awakening was originally not a survival-MMO mash-up, just a survival sim "with a good endgame"
- Marvel Rivals' Captain America reveal is good news for all except the Iron Man mains who can now be killed by their own ultimate attack
- For a few beautiful hours, the Borderlands movie's $90m flop wasn't the worst-reviewed film of the summer
- Death Stranding 2 leads PlayStation's Tokyo Games Show return in a "special talk" as Hideo Kojima unveils his latest round of cast teasers
- Dev behind turn-based strategy hit Tactical Breach Wizards shocked to slot in behind Black Myth: Wukong and the Steam Deck: "Basically number one"
- After a string of poorly received patches, a Helldivers 2 "experimental server" is being actively "worked on" at Arrowhead
- Copyright lawyer reasons Peter Molyneux's new game can share the name "Albion" with Xbox's Fable because "no one could trademark the word for a real place"
- The Lord of the Rings MMO is "still early" and chasing "the thing which is different to all the other games out there"
- August 22
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- Marvel reveals its full slate of November 2024 comics and covers featuring the X-Men, Spider-Man, the Avengers, and more
- I stumbled upon this gorgeous narrative adventure game that looks like less spooky Fatal Frame and more spooky Pokemon Snap, and now I need it to fix all my problems
- As game actors strike for AI protections, Amazon Games boss says we need more AI and it's not "taking work away" because "for games, we don't really have acting"
- Tomb Raider publisher says "things are progressing" with the next Lara Croft game and that Crystal Dynamics is "fairly sheltered" from the layoffs wracking Embracer
- Dev of slept-on tactical RPG says it "sold badly" despite glowing reviews: "My next project will be more focused on 'Does this sell'"
- Deadpool and Wolverine concept art shows the Avengers crossover we could’ve had – including Jack Kirby's classic Captain America
- Marvel mysteriously shares and immediately deletes first look at Thunderbolts, Ironheart, and Daredevil: Born Again
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 lead says Helldivers 2 "legitimizes what we're making" by showing "people like multiplayer co-op games where you can just blow s**t up"
- First trailer for Lord of the Rings anime movie The War of the Rohirrim promises a "groundbreaking journey back to Middle-earth"
- The universe's smallest aliens may also prove to be the most deadly in a preview of Fantastic Four #24
- Helldivers 2 creative director holds surprise Discord Q&A, says "the criticism is valid" and "the worst thing would have been if we f**ked up and no one cared"
- 33 years later, the $10,000 PC that built Civilization 1 is enshrined at Firaxis alongside the leather chair that Sid Meier sat in to make it
- Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard draws his first story for the iconic EC Comics horror anthology Epitaphs from the Abyss
- It's not just the Worldsoul Saga - World of Warcraft lead Chris Metzen says Blizzard is "mapping out" the MMO upwards of patch 17.0
- Randy Pitchford says Borderlands 3 and Tiny Tina's Wonderlands show customers turn up "for the games, not the storefront," but would still like Steam competitors to not "shoot themselves in the foot"
- Baldur's Gate 3 artist fondled a pack of Oreos to get the tentacle-stroking mind flayer sex scene just right: "Some things should probably stay behind the scenes"
- Monster Hunter World turned a cult classic into a phenomenon, and Capcom wants Monster Hunter Wilds to go even further beyond: "There are certain things you have to have in place to be a global level hit"
- 1950s FPS Atomfall takes from Fallout, Metro, and BioShock to create "something new"
- Civilization 7 director teases "sudden death" wins that will keep you in the game even if you're way behind: "The chance to get that victory is pretty much always there"
- Paul Rudd and Jack Black to star in a reboot of '90s creature feature Anaconda
- Netflix’s former #1 show from Presumed Innocent creator is coming back for season 3 in October
- Borderlands 4 studio CEO Randy Pitchford says that's not Handsome Jack in the trailer - it's "something far more dangerous"
- Nintendo created its own Zelda-themed "social media" to help it finish Tears of the Kingdom, with Rupees instead of likes
- The Batman 2 co-writer gives promising update on the DC sequel: "The bar just couldn't be higher"
- Live-action Naruto movie gets an exciting update as its first writer praises the "cool choice" of director: "This is definitely a movie that comes at it from a love of who Naruto is"
- Dune: Awakening's survival game mechanics took inspiration from an unlikely source: EA's PS1-era Harry Potter games from 20 years ago
- Indie game devs band together to show off hidden RPG, FPS, and roguelike games all because a "Gamescom trailer is more than $100k"
- Monster Hunter Wilds players celebrate Capcom lifting gender restrictions on armor after 20 years: "Gonna be the male character with the prettiest dress"
- The Rings of Power season 2 features a surprise new Sauron actor that the showrunners kept hidden for years
- Dying Light: The Beast's own lead actor was surprised to be asked back to reprise his role: "I thought I was dead!"
- I'm still not over New Horizons, and now Nintendo is ending support for another Animal Crossing game in favor of a new "paid" version - with fewer features
- "More Blade, please": Ryan Reynolds is calling for Wesley Snipes to get a "Logan-style send-off" after Deadpool and Wolverine
- The Acolyte's apparent removal from Disney's store has Star Wars fans fearing it's about to become "lost media"
- Megalopolis team issues an apology as negative review quotes in the sci-fi's new trailer turn out to be fake
- New PlayStation FPS Concord was in development for about 8 years - starting almost exactly when 2016's Overwatch got hero shooters trending
- Diablo 4 devs will "learn a whole bunch" from Vessel of Hatred feedback, and pledge to be "very reactive to the community"
- August 21
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- "What would happen if we combined Wind Waker and Silent Hill?": Original Little Nightmares devs talk inspirations for their new horror game
- Ultimate Spider-Man #8 introduces the new Ultimate Sinister Six, lead by Kingpin, and hints at the origin of the new Ultimate Venom
- Everything announced at the Future Games Show at Gamescom Presented by Sid Meier’s Civilization VII
- This cozy castle builder coming next month is already a Steam fan-favorite, and it's not hard to see why
- Throwback survival horror with Silent Hill and Resident Evil vibes gets a subtly spooky release window
- While you wait for Silksong, check out this other Metroidvania with stunning 2.5D art and Soulslike elements
- Rockstar finally acknowledges GTA RP with an in-game promotion a year after it bought the mod team that brought the servers to life
- Decide your fate in the changing world of strategy RPG Huaxia: Warring States
- Discover lost secrets and battle bizarre ocean creatures in roguelike underwater adventure Dive the Depths
- This real-time strategy game where you train gladiators will keep you thinking about the Roman Empire daily
- Nikoderiko: The Magical World shows off more of its classic noughties platforming at the Future Games Show at Gamescom
- A surprise new look at George Miller’s canceled Justice League movie features an underrated DC hero
- Terrifying horror game Retrieval is bringing its incredible visuals to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X
- Psychological horror One-Eyed Likho brings a dark, Slavic fairy tale to PC next year
- Squirrel with a Gun is, delightfully, exactly what it says on the tin, and it's out on Steam next week
- Take charge of a complex cannon and help save the world in interplanetary conflict simulation game PVKK
- Celebrate adorable narrative puzzle game Sunset Hills' release with a new trailer
- Steamworld Heist 2's launch trailer showcases folksy tunes, geometric gunplay, and a string of accolades
- Gather an eclectic crew to save Earth from being destroyed by a sentient gas cloud in Beyond Galaxyland
- Help five prisoners work together to escape a Spanish Monastery with their sanity in The Stone of Madness
- Top-down roguelike shooter Section 13 is a pulse-pounding dive into a harrowing research facility and its murderous, mutated subjects
- Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch will put your strategy prowess to the test in a brutal roguelike RPG adventure on a mysterious island, and it's coming to Steam Early Access in November
- Grab your pitchfork and try to survive a medieval zombie outbreak in God Save Birmingham
- Nightmare House: Reimagined makes its chilling, thrilling reveal - and puts the original game on Steam for free
- After 7 years, magical ARPG Mages of Mystralia returns for a long-awaited sequel
- Bionic Bay is a physics-bending sci-fi platformer that looks like Limbo via Portal
- Customize cute penguins then brawl with your rivals to be the last bird standing in Los Pingheros
- Starship Troopers: Extermination introduces a new mode, a new planet, and a towering new bug taken straight from the iconic movie
- Japanese-inspired Metroidvania The Spirit of the Samurai blends classic Hollywood influence with an adorable warrior cat
- Grisly cult management sim Worshippers of Cthulhu has confirmed an October release date, but devout fans can play a free demo now
- Atomfall developer diary provides the most thorough look yet at the frightfully British survival action game that's part Fallout and part Bioshock
- New Metroidvania Maui the Shapeshifter puts a Polynesian spin on the Hollow Knight formula
- Sid Meier's Civilization® VII gets four new trailers at the Future Games Show
- As Borderlands 4 eyes Steam, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford addresses prediction Steam may be "dying" by now: "I’m a Steam customer, but sure wish they had more and better competition"
- Riot and Wargaming vets kick off narrative universe with turn-based sci-fi RPG with deckbuilding elements, and it's coming to Steam next month
- Avowed lead says it's "very hard to say" how many endings the RPG has, but it's in "the double digits, and you can end up with a lot of different combinations of them"
- Weather and harness the power of magical storms in this striking open-world Viking survival game
- Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age puts you in the command chair of tense aerial and naval combat encounters
- This creepy, retro horror adventure is threatening to make me live out my old creepypasta nightmares with a cursed game within a game
- Get a glimpse at apocalyptic city-builder sequel Endzone 2 ahead of its early access release
- Open-world survival game set among the clouds shows off leap-and-tumble grapple hook action I'll lose hundreds of gameplay hours to
- Mario Kart meets Fall Guys in this silly racing battle royale which'll see up to 50 costumed penguins face off in the ultimate showdown
- I'm slightly scared by this apocalyptic extraction shooter's massive tornados which make the open-world seems as dangerous as other players
- Play your favorite board games with friends through the convenience of VR in All On Board!
- This gorgeous pixel art JRPG perfectly blends Pokemon and Persona into one unique package, and it's finally releasing next month
- First-person-shooter Dfuse is here to put a MOBA spin on CS:GO, and there's a Steam closed alpha in October
- 90s cartoons and roguelike deckbuilding collide in Dimensionals' chaotic combo-driven card game
- This action RPG is a fast-paced mashup of Diablo 4, Path of Exile, and Vampire Survivors - and its full release is almost here
- Sea of Thieves meets XCOM in this newly announced turn-based tactical rogue-lite featuring cursed pirates and deadly sea monsters
- Elrond goes to war in an exclusive new look at The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2
- I can't wait to embark on a cozy sci-fi exploration adventure in this colorful indie gem this fall
- Mafia: The Old Country really is skipping Italian voiceover - instead, it has "voice acting in Sicilian, inline with the game's setting in 1900s Sicily"
- Creepypasta tactical shooter Phantom Line offers a developer deep dive at the Future Games Show
- Akimbot is a new 3D platformer featuring a robot duo that looks like it'll take me back to the early-2000s
- Get your best look yet at Greedfall II: The Dying World ahead of its imminent early access release
- Will: Follow the Light is a beautiful adventure game set in the harsh and unforgiving world of the far North
- This explosive trailer for ZeroSpace is enough to catch the eye of any RTS or Mass Effect fan
- Roguelike Ravenswatch finally gets a release date - and the reveal of its iconic final boss
- There's a brand new Venom coming, and it could be Luke Cage, Madame Masque, or another prominent Marvel character
- Upcoming Steam heist game Monaco 2 introduces the crew in a new Future Games Show trailer, and you'll catch me throwing hands as Una
- Cute yet challenging cartoon platformer Croak gets a world premiere reveal at the Future Games Show
- Black Myth: Wukong's new trailer speaks of destiny, immortality, and a squeaky-voiced seagull-centaur-man
- Enter a world of discovery as you venture deep below Ospolis in search of Atlantis in The Explorator
- The latest gameplayer trailer for this cyberpunk gun-fu action game looks like it'll let you live out your John Wick x Johnny Silverhand dreams
- Abduct humans to put them on display in this theme park sim set in the same universe as a 27-year-old banger of a black comedy film
- Rotten Tomatoes is introducing a new ranking that recognizes audiences too – and Deadpool and Wolverine is one of the first recipients
- Genshin Impact is somehow coming to Xbox before Switch over 4 years after it was announced for Nintendo's console, with a $10 bundle nobody should buy
- Blizzard says Diablo 4's new Spiritborn class can't be defined "by a classic tabletop RPG archetype," and that means there was "a layer of additional pressure" to its development
- Space Marine 2's monetization won't feel "like you're getting poked" because nobody wants horse armor anymore - "I can say that because I worked at Bethesda"
- To save his son, Superman may have to sell his soul
- Countless roguelike fans explode as Risk of Rain 2 confirms return of iconic Chef in Seekers of the Storm, August 27 DLC launch, and free PS5 and Xbox Series X upgrade
- Monster Hunter Wilds is dropping banger after banger at Gamescom: gender-neutral armor, skippable cutscenes, built-in weapon skills, single-player pause, 3D map, and more
- After 18 years, College Football 25 obliterates the best-selling PS2 NCAA game's record and rockets past Helldivers 2 on the US top seller charts
- Borderlands 4 fans theorize the return of Handsome Jack, and that could mean a decade-old plotline is coming with him
- Dying Light is coming for Resident Evil's horror crown: "We want to be the ultimate zombie experience - you think zombie game, you say Dying Light"
- Netflix announces new One Piece season 2 casting, but it's not the fan cast we were all expecting
- Fallout season 2 is set to begin filming "quite soon" and fans can expect "more monsters, more environments, more factions"
- The Elder Scrolls Online developers wouldn't call the long-running game an MMO because it's more a "virtual world" at this point
- "Come on, Todd": Xbox boss Phil Spencer was one of the Starfield players begging Todd Howard for a better way to travel - "I'm tired of walking around this planet"
- Dying Light: The Beast started off as Dying Light 2 DLC but became a whole new game after the "very eager community" leaked critical story details
- BioWare says it spent 200,000 hours testing Dragon Age: The Veilguard - and that's just for the RPG's PC version
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer says Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming to PS5 because "it's a strategy that works for us" and "our franchises are getting stronger"
- Mafia: The Old Country - set in Italy, starring Italians, featuring Italian accents - seemingly won't have Italian voice acting
- Former X-Men star says Hollywood is "in a very bad way" because of movies like Deadpool and Wolverine
- 4 years after the success of The Queen's Gambit, Furiosa star is returning to Netflix for a major new thriller series
- New Animal Crossing-like Floatopia from Marvel Rivals dev is likely a free-to-play gacha game, and fans aren't happy: "Looks cute, but I'm not playing"
- Stunning-but-wild Megalopolis trailer pokes fun at negative reception with fake bad reviews of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and more
- Borderlands 4 is set on an "all-new planet" rather than series mainstay Pandora
- Out of the fog, Silent Hill 2 emerges onto the new PLAY cover!
- Fable director Peter Molyneux says his new city-builder shares a setting with Xbox's RPG, but that's not a problem because "Albion can't be copyrighted"
- Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard's upcoming horror directional debut gets a release date
- Alien: Romulus director confirms twisted hidden detail on Reddit, before getting kicked off the platform for "impersonating" Fede Alvarez
- The Rings of Power season 2 has a scale and ambition close to Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy: 1,500 orc actors in full makeup and a star learning how to forge real rings
- After just 1 day, inZOI's hyper-realistic character creator demo on Steam has life sim fans forgetting about The Sims 4: "I'm not looking back"
- Putting the Borderlands 4 reveal just 2 weeks after the Borderlands movie's $90m flop is being hailed as Randy Pitchford's ultimate "big brain move"
- Alien fan spots an unbelievable Ripley Easter egg in Alien: Romulus that could have major implications on the franchise
- Life is Strange: Double Exposure won't let you "take a second stab" at tough decisions, but will tease you with what could've been
- 2 years after it was supposed to be released, an upcoming Stephen King horror adaptation gets first look
- Tomb Raider fans in shambles after Lara Croft turns up at Opening Night Live as part of a Naraka: Bladepoint crossover, not the long-overdue new game they got excited for
- Don't expect Lady Gaga's Harley Quinn to be completely comic accurate, says Joker: Folie à Deux director: "We stripped that away"
- Robert Downey Jr. breaks his silence on his Doctor Doom casting – and the three questions that sparked his Marvel return
- Phil Spencer never said Indiana Jones wouldn't come to PS5, he said it wouldn't be 1 of the first 4 Xbox exclusives to do so, like Grounded and Hi-Fi Rush
- After 8 years and multiple expansions, Firaxis had to make Civilization 7 because Civ 6 "was getting too big for its britches"
- Lego Mario Kart swoops in like a blue shell with Gamescom reveal
- Starfield's new space buggy vehicle opens the door to automotive crime as players immediately "go GTA" on New Atlantis
- August 20
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- Palworld dev is happy to see Black Myth: Wukong overtake the survival game's Steam record: "We won't see another game reach these heights until probably GTA 6"
- Little Nightmares 3 looks fantastic in its new gameplay trailer, and so does this other game from the original devs that feels just like Little Nightmares
- Marvel Comics for Dummies condenses 85 years of comic book lore into an accessible primer aimed at getting more people into the Marvel Universe
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle DLC is coming and Xbox just revealed it in the most casual way possible
- Open-world roguelike Hyper Light Breaker delayed to 2025 so the devs can get it "polished" without sacrificing their "mental and physical health"
- I think Keanu Reeves is in the new Armored Core adaptation, and I can't believe no one's saying anything about it
- Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred revives the action-RPG series' 24-year-old tradition of letting you hire mercenaries to fight alongside you
- Borderlands 4 already has something that the Borderlands movie's PG-13 rating doesn't: the promise of "Intense Violence or Gore"
- NetEase is here to say we won't stop with Overwatch 2 challenger Marvel Rivals, here's Animal Crossing rival Floatopia
- Life is Strange Double Exposure devs on bringing back Max: "everybody now has the Max in their heads that we have to compete with"
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Collector's Edition comes with 3 days' early access and a conspiracy theory-covered globe
- Fable mastermind Peter Molyneux takes to Gamescom to ask "what the hell was I doing" and announce he got "the old team back together" for a new open-world god game
- Mafia: The Old Country is going "back to the roots of what fans love about the Mafia franchise," and acts as a prequel in 1900s Sicily
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is officially coming to PS5 next spring after a December launch on Xbox and PC
- How to watch The Future Game Show at Gamescom 2024 – and what to expect
- Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred is getting a new PvE co-op dungeon that sounds like a full-blown raid
- Starfield's Rev-8 update brings the first-ever drivable land vehicle to a Bethesda RPG, and I kind of want to play Starfield now
- Side-scrolling action RPG Towerborne gets early access release date, and it's coming very soon
- Starfield's Shattered Space DLC takes us to an abandoned star station in just 1 month
- New Monster Hunter Wilds trailer reveals the scariest spider boss this series has cooked up in 20 years – meet Lala Barina and the lightning wyvern Rey Dau
- After being delayed to 2025, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage just got a stunning new gameplay trailer and two new release dates
- Marvel Rivals reveals Captain America and The Winter Soldier, and confirms its leaked December release date
- After 5 years worth of teases, Dune Awakening finally drops the veil with proper gameplay footage ahead of the survival MMO's early 2025 launch
- Dying Light: The Beast is a new spinoff of the horror series featuring a new open-world area, 20 hours of content, and a returning protagonist
- Cozy open-world dress-up adventure game headed by Breath of the Wild dev gets a new trailer and an incredible soundtrack brain-worm
- Marvel Rivals release date leaks as the Overwatch 2 challenger heads for December launch - with all heroes unlocked from the start
- Path of Exile 2 hits early access in November with various horrific demonic entities in tow
- Extraction shooter from The Finals studio follows Helldivers 2 and Concord by ditching free-to-play ahead of 2025 launch: "We can give out more rewards" this way
- Persona 3 Reload teases return of Persona 5 icon in the JRPG's upcoming game-sized epilogue DLC, Episode Aigis
- Borderlands 4 has finally been revealed, and it's out in 2025 across PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S
- The new Spider-Girl's origin kicks off as death comes for Spider-Boy and Daredevil in a "fatal issue"
- Ryan Murphy's follow-up to Netflix's hit horror series Dahmer unveils chilling first teaser and confirms release date
- Nakama Press is a brand new all-ages manga imprint from Mad Cave Studios
- Devs and analysts predict Black Myth: Wukong could change games in China - "Wukong is proof a well-made single-player game can be big"
- Animal Crossing-like dev pushes back on "Stardew Valley clone" chatter around farming RPG Fields of Mistria: "You probably wouldn't have Pokemon without Dragon Quest 5"
- Black Myth: Wukong's first optional boss Wandering Wight is taking names, so of course players are already doing no-hit kills and cheesing him
- Xbox at Gamescom 2024 stream – when it starts and how to watch it on YouTube, Twitch, and more
- "I will overlook sh**ty game mechanics for hours if I'm enjoying the story": Skyrim and Fallout veteran says RPGs "live and die" on narrative
- Joker 3 is unlikely according to the film’s director: "I think we’ve said what we wanted to say"
- A heartbreaking Studio Ghibli movie with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score is coming to Netflix next month
- One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda confirms key season 2 details, including which arcs Netflix is adapting
- Former GTA dev on the studio that became GTA 5-maker Rockstar North: "There was a spirit of creativity and freedom that just doesn’t exist today"
- Civilization 7 release date set for February 2025 according to pre-Gamescom leak
- Indie dev hits out at "AI-copied" ripoff of their Zelda meets Ghibli game that appeared just before release
- New Lego Harry Potter set is like a weird doll's house, and I kinda love that
- The Hunger Games' star's new A24 dark comedy gets a first trailer, and it looks like if Superbad got the horror treatment
- X-Men '97 season 2 producer says to expect two more X-teams in the new episodes
- Ghost in the Shell and Bayonetta actor Atsuko Tanaka dies at 61
- Everything announced at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024
- "I just can't get enough": Fans can't stop playing this Animal Crossing-like's "2-hour" demo, with some spending literal days in-game
- First trailer for Ready or Not star's new horror movie is giving us big Wrong Turn meets A Quiet Place vibes
- The Atari 7800 is back, and the retro console now has HDMI and wireless controllers
- Deadpool and Wolverine's scrapped variant is Wolverinepool, an unhinged combo of the two Marvel heroes
- Skyrim veteran says he got into fights with his Bethesda colleagues over the RPG's most notoriously heavy item: "You can't just give the player everything they want"
- Alien: Romulus director reveals how the team pulled off *that* surprise Alien cameo and defends use of AI
- Black Myth: Wukong dev warns of "occasional serious issues" on PC even after "multiple internal full-process tests"
- Pacific Rim prequel TV show in the works from Netflix's Shadow and Bone showrunner
- Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown has a new Netflix movie in the works – an adaptation of her own WW2 novel
- The new Nintendo Museum has a display dedicated to "before we made games," featuring exhibits like 'Nintendo Baby Stroller' and 'Nintendo Gun'
- The Boys star is switching heroes for horror as she joins Blumhouse's upcoming M3GAN spin-off
- New Helldivers 2 patch finally fixed ragdolling from those pesky Impalers and rocket-wielding Automatons
- Assassin's Creed Shadows fans dub Yasuke's clumsy twist on the series' iconic Leap of Faith his very own "Yeet of Faith"
- Razer's latest gaming keyboard feature is now banned in CS:2
- The Acolyte has been canceled after just one season, despite that massive cliffhanger
- The Last of Us season 2 has wrapped filming as editor tells cast and crew "we will bring your hard work home now"
- Black Myth: Wukong Steam player count surpasses Palworld as the action RPG surges past Counter-Strike 2 to become Steam's second-biggest game ever
- Hollow Knight: Silksong reclaims its Steam wishlists crown, 3 years and 6 competitors since it last held the title
- After 3 years, this bangin' indie horror game is coming in September "to tide you over until Silent Hill 2 Remake"
- August 19
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- The Witcher author is done writing the next book in the series, says it took two years like it's NBD
- For the first time ever, an MCU character seems to be crossing over directly to the Marvel Comics timeline
- "I'd have them finished": Game of Thrones author George RR Martin says the one thing he'd change about A Song of Ice and Fire is the same thing we've wanted for 13 years
- Opening Night Live 2024 stream date and time – the Gamescom countdown is on
- Helldivers 2 dev echoes Diablo 4 and Palworld teams and says it's OK to take a break from a game and come back later, "especially a live service one"
- Netflix's Tomb Raider anime gets a new teaser trailer and our best look yet at Hayley Atwell's Lara Croft
- Bethesda boss Todd Howard is the only gamer on Earth with this 1,000-point achievement, and years after Xbox gifted it to him we finally know what it says
- As Final Fantasy 16 confirms September PC release date, its director says it's "possible, probably even likely" future Final Fantasy games launch day 1 on PC
- Hunter x Hunter manga returns this year after another long hiatus, Yoshihiro Togashi's classic gets first volume in nearly 2 years next month
- Legendary roguelike Dead Cells gets its final update after 7 years, with new mobs, weapons, accessibility options, and more
- Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds pays emotional tribute to Hugh Jackman's Wolverine return: "He is THE X-Man"
- Michael Keaton "didn't care one way or another" about Batgirl being canceled, but he sympathizes with the directors
- Blue Lock season 2 confirms surprise episode count and reveals what's next for the sports anime
- Nintendo delivers the saddest news I've heard since Animal Crossing's updates ceased - the long-awaited Fantasy Life sequel was delayed again
- Dev behind StarCraft "spiritual successor" Stormgate says the strategy game's mixed reviews are fine, but players shouldn't expect StarCraft devs to make StarCraft quality straight off the bat
- It cost over $500,000 for Steam's newest highest-level user to claim his top spot, and he's risking it all over a single Counter-Strike gun
- If you liked Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, you’ll love his seriously underrated horror series with a near perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- After 6 years and almost 300 chapters, the Jujutsu Kaisen manga will end in just 5 weeks according to creator Gege Akutami
- A new Netflix action movie with seriously divisive reviews tops the streamer's film chart
- Manor Lords publisher says game devs and big corpos don't get on because making games is "fundamentally unpredictable"
- Silent Hill 2's new story trailer was Bloober's "love letter" to the horror classic's 2001 trailer, and in some parts it's a shot-for-shot remake
- 10 years after making Pokemon history with a squirrel, the former world champion returned to Worlds 2024 with his iconic mascot in tow
- Baldur's Gate 3 director turned his back on RTS for RPG at the start of his career - just before the strategy game boom that brought us StarCraft, Homeworld, and Age of Empires
- One of Netflix's best anime shows gets a seriously disappointing season 2 update
- An Apple TV Plus show with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score unveils its season 2 first look and release date
- Black Myth: Wukong release time – the countdown to the new action RPG is on
- Terraria creator responds to backlash regarding 1.4.5 update, says developers "didn't remove anything" from the game: "We’re giving players more control"
- Alien: Romulus director addresses *that* surprise cameo, and says it was all down to Alien’s Ridley Scott
- Fallout: New Vegas helped inspire Dishonored creator's new RPG hybrid: "We like the structure, the size, the humor, the possibilities"
- Barely 3 weeks after its $90m flop, the Borderlands movie is reportedly giving up on cinemas and going straight to streaming
- Black Myth: Wukong preloads smash Steam's all-time bandwidth records, beating Cyberpunk 2077's enormous peak as 70 terabytes are downloaded every second
- Logan screenwriter says he was "warned" about Deadpool and Wolverine's opening scene – but he didn't know it would go that far
- Alien: Romulus director has the perfect pitch for an Alien vs. Predator movie
- Max Payne producer slams "train wreck" 2008 film, thinks he and Remedy's Sam Lake can help "do it right" in 2024
- The Zotac Zone just entered the handheld ring with a $799 price tag, but I’m scared it’ll become a punching bag
- Hideo Kojima drops a new Death Stranding 2 actor teaser, but fans quickly deduce that it's one of his long-time collaborators
- Joker director has the perfect response to Deadpool and Wolverine beating DC film's record: "We knew it was gonna be big, but this is too much"
- New edition of Warhammer Kill Team fixes a weird rule I've always disliked
- Star Wars star says he won't appear in The Mandalorian & Grogu because of The Book of Boba Fett, explaining the show's reception "impacted the future of the character"
- 3 years after it was announced, Marvel star gives promising update on his long-awaited sequel
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 will "beat any expectation you have," says Rebirth director
- Star Wars Outlaws gets stunning new art with a collaboration from acclaimed manga artist behind Afro Samurai and Batman Ninja
- As Switch 2 hype builds, Nintendo clarifies it's not showing off its next console during the livestream for its new Kyoto museum
- A surprise Attack on Titan movie has been announced – and it's the definitive edition of the anime's epic finale
- Rockstar's classic Bully has been rated for consoles and PC, but it's probably just the imminent GTA+ re-release
- 23 years later, Silent Hill 2 composer Akira Yamaoka can barely recall what making it felt like – aside from having to down-tune his guitar because he couldn't afford a bass
- Original Silent Hill 2 artist Masahiro Ito didn't want to remake the survival horror masterpiece, but decided to cooperate to "make sure the core was preserved"
- August 18
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- Activision shut down viral Call of Duty mod because it "did not want H2M interfering with possible sales of Black Ops 6," says creator
- Dev behind timeless mobile icon Fruit Ninja just released a $7 "Lovecraftian roguelike" and now he's feeling "so cooked"
- "If I had a game, I would not sign with 90% of publishers": Manor Lords publisher thinks "self-publishing is a fine way to go"
- Helldivers 2 hackers get their "pet fish summarily executed," while a new Major Order sends us back to fight the bots that mutineers ignored
- Don't even bother with the clown makeup, Hollow Knight: Silksong won't be at Gamescom's Opening Night Live show
- August 17
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- Baldur's Gate 3 boss says he was a World of Warcraft fiend, wonders if his son has a "big game addiction" because his parents were hooked on the MMO "through the entire pregnancy"
- After dealing with backend bugs for 14 months, acclaimed Metroidvania dev scraps Xbox port that could've taken "less than two weeks"
- Divinity: Original Sin is still the "highlight" of Baldur's Gate 3 director's career because it let Larian Studios "start doing the things we really want"
- Cheaters burn through "impossible" Helldivers 2 Major Order in mere hours: "Well, that was fast"
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 director says the JRPG sequel will be "one of the most loved, most popular games in the whole history of video games"
- August 16
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- X-Men #2 puts a new twist on an X-Men plot that goes all the way back to the '60s
- Baldur's Gate 3 director was somehow "afraid the game was going to be too short," but like Elden Ring's Hidetaka Miyazaki is "very bad at judging the length of our games"
- As Veilguard hype builds, Larian boss says "I was in love with Morrigan in Dragon Age" and suddenly I understand why Baldur's Gate 3 is filled with bad girls
- Black Lightning and his daughters Thunder and Lightning will head up the Justice League's "crisis response unit" in new DC All In comic
- High Command, we've got a problem: Helldivers 2 players have embraced the "Chaosdiver" life after rebelling against Super Earth, and they've even designed a cape
- Get an advance look at Venom War: Lethal Protectors with a preview of interior pages and an early solicitation reveal
- Baldur's Gate 3's iconic Moonrise Towers was almost twice its final size, but director Swen Vincke says "the game was getting too big so we had to cut that"
- Genshin Impact gives out its first free 5-star character as update 5.0 pulls out the big guns for Natlan: custom-made artifacts and no more 50/50 odds on characters
- Street Fighter 2 character designer reveals a side-scrolling Metroidvania that's also a curry restaurant management sim, all in his signature pixel art style
- After teasing Nier 3, Nier: Automata creator Yoko Taro signs up for some brutal irony: an AI telling him to stop posting on social media and start writing games that make sense
- Giant Robot Hellboy will stomp once more in a new sequel series from Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo
- Nintendo's first Famicom Detective Club game in 35 years is getting an evolving demo starting next week
- The Rings of Power star teases iconic Lord of the Rings monster Shelob’s "intricate" design in season 2
- WWE superstar Randy Orton says he auditioned for Deadpool 2: "In my head, I was gonna be Cable"
- "Now imagine if Hugh had done full frontal": Deadpool and Wolverine has taken a major box office record from Joker, and Ryan Reynolds has the perfect response
- DC reveals its full slate of November 2024 comics and covers featuring Superman, Batman, the Justice League, and more
- After losing out on Deadpool and Wolverine cameo, Halle Berry reveals what it'd take to get her to reprise another major role
- "Please pirate it because none of us work at the company that owns this anymore": Dev of stylish skating shooter marks its 2-year anniversary with a call for piracy
- The Last of Us' Dina actor praises Bella Ramsey's performance, as she reveals filming on season 2 is almost wrapped
- Prime Video's He-Man: Masters of the Universe live-action movie casts Riverdale star in key role
- The Wholesome Games Celebration comes to Steam, putting some of my favorite relaxing Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley-likes on sale
- John Cena responds to his scrapped Coyote vs. Acme movie: "I have to believe in the process"
- Super Mario 64 mod has the iconic plumber traveling across the multiverse to visit Pokemon, Spongebob, and Doom demons
- The greatest Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trick shot I've ever seen took around 500 attempts, but it was so worth it to watch Link dunk on a Gleeok with three perfectly timed arrows
- New movie from the makers of Coraline gets a brief-but-epic first teaser, and it's giving us big Oxenfree meets Zelda vibes
- Hunt: Showdown's Steam reviews take a battering after the colossal 1896 update brings dreary UI and stuttering to the gothic PvPvE shooter
- The first Rings of Power season 2 clip is all about Sauron mind games – and it's our best look yet at the new Adar
- Superman star teases the movie as comic book accurate with "a James Gunn twist" – and says David Corenswet is a "wonderful" Clark Kent
- Antec’s take on the Ayaneo Slide just arrived, and I’m pretty pleased with the handheld’s price
- The most realistic-looking Sims 4 competitor I've ever seen is bringing its character creator to Steam, and I still can't believe it comes from the PUBG studio
- Analyst suggests the Nintendo Switch 2 could arrive before July 2025, and potentially cost less than the PS5 and Xbox Series X
- As Activision suddenly kills a long-awaited Call of Duty mod, Infinity Ward veteran encourages the publisher to "build systems to help your UGC community, not strangle it"
- Monster Hunter Wilds is really putting the Chatacabra through it in the weapon showcases, and fans are almost feeling bad for the beastie
- New nun-centric horror series from Ryan Murphy sees Dahmer's Niecy Nash-Betts hunt a serial killer in trippy first trailer
- Kaitlyn Dever's performance as Abby in The Last of Us season 2 is already getting the highest of praise from one of her co-stars: "Give her the damn Emmy"
- As Fortnite returns to mobile, Tim Sweeney says Epic Games "probably lost over a billion dollars of revenue" as a result of the battle royale being blocked from iPhone 4 years ago
- Andor season 2 is going to change how you view Rogue One, says Star Wars star Diego Luna
- Manor Lords publisher says "so many games fail" because of bad contracts where publishers insist on making all their money back before devs get a bite of revenue
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard fans are head over heels for Morrigan's return, but we've got more questions than answers
- Marvel issues statement on X-Men '97 showrunner's firing and "egregious" findings of internal investigation
- On launch day, Activision shuts down hyped mod that sent Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered soaring up Steam sales charts
- Star Wars Eclipse's lead writer has left Quantic Dream to found a new studio and work on something "very innovative, very special, and, for now, very secret"
- Following the death of Misty actor Rachael Lillis, Pokemon fans are reminiscing about her final scene: "This hits differently now"
- Meta says GTA San Andreas' VR port has been put "on hold indefinitely," nearly 3 years after it was announced
- An Alien legend returns for an Alien: Romulus cameo – but not in the way you might be expecting
- Alien: Romulus' connection with Prometheus explained
- Alien: Romulus post-credits explained – is there a post-credit scene?
- When does Alien: Romulus take place on the Alien timeline?
- Will there be a sequel to Alien: Romulus?
- August 15
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- Steam-dominating cozy castle builder Tiny Glade finally gets a release date, and oh, it's next month
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev backs Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity director Josh Sawyer, wishes he "would get the resources" for his dream RPG: "I want to play that game"
- Renee Montoya returns as The Question in a new solo title to investigate a Justice League murder mystery, and even Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are suspects
- Activision tackles out-of-control Call of Duty download sizes, but of course the path to "smaller downloads" starts with "a big one," and 4 freakin' downloads on PS5
- The hottest new farming sim on Steam can't be stopped – Stardew Valley x Sailor Moon hit Fields of Mistria tops 100,000 downloads in a week: "We're overwhelmed"
- Alien: Romulus director says his work on 2013's Evil Dead and Don't Breathe helped him bring to life the "true horror movie" he's always wanted to make
- The most dedicated Nintendo server survivor has Mario Kart 3DS hooked up to an uninterruptible power supply "tucked away in a cabinet where no one can touch it"
- Alien: Romulus cast said they were "cold to the bone" when watching the film's wild final act
- Giant-Size Thor #1 pits Hercules and Thor against a literal Giant-Size Thor
- After 31 years stuck in Japan, the first fighting game from the Tekken studio is finally available worldwide
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard costs $70 on PS5 and Xbox Series X but only $60 on PC
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard gets the EA special: 23 deluxe-exclusive cosmetics, 2 editions that don't include the game, pre-order armor, and 3 artbook editions alone
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard collector's edition is $150 and it doesn't even come with the game
- The dark secret of X-Factor #1 makes it one of the most tragic and compelling new X-Men titles
- Delicious in Dungeon manga creator known for immaculate D&D vibes says she's actually never played D&D but loves RPGs like Baldur's Gate 3
- When Batman and the Justice League are abducted, only one man can save the day: Santa Claus
- With over 10,000 "overwhelmingly positive" Steam reviews, the official release of this space shooter blending roguelikes and action RPGs feels like an event after 10 years
- The next Elder Scrolls game officially launches in September, Bethesda opens pre-registration for "spiritual successor to Fallout Shelter" that feels like management sim Skyrim
- There's actually a Poltergeist reference hidden in Longlegs, but the director thinks he "f***ed it up"
- Mecha Break producer says "'pay-to-win' is out of the question" for the upcoming mech action game
- Save scummers, rejoice: this turn-based RPG is all about the dirty trick we all definitely didn't abuse in Baldur's Gate 3
- After 18 years, Cassandra Cain is finally getting a new Batgirl solo comic
- Monster Hunter Wilds' Switch Axe makes a great time even better with slick new moves and teases a possible new creature
- Ryan Reynolds continues to show off Deadpool and Wolverine's incredible attention to detail – this time with an homage to a comedy classic
- Banjo-Kazooie composer teases that "things are afoot" before quickly clarifying that no, it's not "Banjo related"
- New horror movie debuts first full-length trailer featuring blood, sweat, and tears – and it's already got a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- Overwatch 2 players in shambles as no Egyptian characters have actual Egyptian skins in the very Egyptian Season 12 Battle Pass
- The most complex Pokemon speedrun I've ever seen involves playing two games at the same time with four controllers mashed together, alongside voice controls and a foot pedal
- New Deadpool and Wolverine concept art shows Jennifer Garner's Elektra almost had a comic book accurate costume
- GTA 4 fan taking on unwise challenge of beating the game with traffic amped up to "warp speed" explains why: "If life is suffering, why not choose more suffering - and more life?"
- James Cameron says a major Avatar 3 casting was "misreported", and they actually won't appear in the series for another five years
- One scene in Daredevil: Born Again will connect the Disney Plus show to the Netflix series, according to Charlie Cox
- Mirror's Edge, but you're a spy dog and it's called Barkour
- Borderlands 3's new update lets players skip to max level in the funniest way possible: starting at the final boss with garbage gear
- Dell just unveiled a new Alienware gaming monitor that appeals to two gamers within me
- Ambitious Skyrim mod that remakes Oblivion looks better than ever in this new quest gameplay reveal, and it's still on track to release next year
- Alien: Romulus debuts to the highest Rotten Tomatoes score in the franchise since 1986
- Bioware confirms leaked Dragon Age: The Veilguard release date: the long-awaited RPG launches Halloween 2024
- After 3 years, the best Final Fantasy’s essential PC mod gets a surprise update that fully reworks the classic JRPG’s gorgeous painterly backdrops
- Hugh Jackman had the perfect reaction to seeing Deadpool and Wolverine for the first time
- Deadpool director working on new video game anthology series for Amazon – and it's riffing on one of Netflix's most underrated shows
- "Absolute W": PC gamers celebrate as the 2K launcher is removed from Civ 6 and won't be implemented for Civ 7
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 delayed to February 2025: "We aimed for the end of the year and almost made it"
- August 14
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- Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker has been infected by Balatro, and the hit roguelike's creator loves it: "It's possibly the most addictive thing ever created"
- Just days after Bethesda gave Doom Eternal players official mod tools, someone's bustin' demons in Super Mario 64's iconic Bob-Omb Battlefield
- Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost Rider mash-up character Hellverine is getting his own ongoing comic "because you demanded it"
- Valve stops laughing, starts ranking your Steam reviews with a new "helpfulness" filter that makes memes, jokes, and beautiful ascii art less visible
- An A-list Marvel hero just died an absolutely brutal death
- Valve "didn't like" Steam pages linking to other pages, and it's "enforcing new rules" on what devs can write on its store
- This Stardew Valley-like puts you in charge of an MMO studio where you can "playtest your RPG at any time"
- Blizzard slams the emergency button, shuts down all Diablo 4 trading after a Season 5 dupe exploit lights the economy on fire
- After 10 long years, Dragon Age: The Veilguard gets its release date tomorrow as BioWare details a roadmap with info on "high-level combat" and the PC version
- Heartstopper star Joe Locke responds to rumors he's playing Scarlet Witch's son in new Marvel series Agatha All Along
- It took 4 years but Genshin Impact is finally adding a new world level in update 5.0 that makes character materials easier to farm – plus 1 million free Mora for all
- The Nightmare Before Christmas director Henry Selick set me the challenge of finding a hidden Jack Skellington in Coraline: "There's some image of Jack in every film I've made"
- A diss track would not be enough so this Final Fantasy 14 player made an entire website telling the MMO's community to stop using this healing spell
- Destiny 2 somehow accidentally changed the names of "a high number" of players, and many say they can't get their old name back
- Black Canary must fight to prove that she is the Best of the Best in a new series from Wonder Woman writer Tom King
- Halo dev 343 Industries is hiring a generative AI lead to "help build innovative gaming experiences powered by AI"
- Rockstar veteran added litter to GTA 3 because the streets looked "too clean," but removed it from San Andreas "because I eventually lost the argument" with the rest of the dev team
- New Metroidvania channels Hollow Knight so hard it should almost come with a Fair Use law blurb, gets 71% positive Steam reviews because it "feels like a copy of Hollow Knight"
- World of Warcraft's Horde faction suffers embarrassment once more as infamous damage fiend finds yet another way to one-shot them while naked
- The team behind new horror movie with a near perfect Rotten Tomatoes score The Substance used The Fly as inspiration for Demi Moore's transformation
- Avowed shares a universe with Obsidian RPG Pillars of Eternity, but OG director Josh Sawyer isn't on it as he was "burned out" and didn't want to be an "overprotective parent"
- Coraline and The Nightmare Before Christmas director Henry Selick says it's "incredibly rewarding" seeing them celebrate major anniversaries, but they probably won't get sequels anytime soon
- 24 years later, M. Night Shyamalan reflects on why Unbreakable wasn't marketed as a superhero movie: "They were too scared to say the words 'comic book'"
- One of Netflix's biggest 2024 shows is coming back for season 2 and its real-world reveal has to be seen to be believed
- After 65 failed attempts, Dark Souls speedrunner suffers their worst no-death randomizer defeat yet as a single rat chooses violence and shoves them off a rooftop
- Until Dawn remake is out right before Halloween, and it'll give you an alternative to the infamous 'Don't Move' moments
- Final trailer for The Rings of Power season 2 sees Sauron and Galadriel reunite in battle
- New 'Trending Free' Steam chart stops free-to-play games and demos from spamming other lists on the storefront
- I've never seen a game as committed to letting you do absolutely everything with a shield as this Zelda: Breath of the Wild-inspired open-world
- Kate Winslet gave Andy Samberg some advice for his dramatic role in war photographer biopic
- I’m usually skeptical about full-body VR controllers, but this new chair could change that
- There's one Fallout TV show Easter egg that the creative team was sure no one would catch – but the fans did
- Elden Ring geniuses discover how to beat Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss without fighting him at all, just by making him get bored and leave
- A final page twist in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Nightwatcher #1 reveals which of the TMNT is behind the mysterious vigilante's mask
- OG Baldur's Gate developer outlines the changing face of IP deals: "You have to sell 10 million units just to break even"
- A film the internet is calling one of the worst movies of the decade is dominating Netflix at number one
- New horror movie with perfect Rotten Tomatoes score gets glowing endorsement from Stephen King
- Henry Cavill almost had a different look in Deadpool and Wolverine – and fans think it’s a Superman reference
- Dark Souls 2 is seeing a resurgence as fans fondly recall the super pig, moaning trees, and a rat boss that's actually a dog
- Kingpin actor Vincent D'Onofrio says Daredevil: Born Again is more violent in places than the Netflix original: "There's one thing my character does that I can't believe made it in"
- Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai says the "bitter memory" of destroying someone at The King of Fighters '95 actually had "no influence" on the concept of his own fighting game
- Wolfs director reveals he never told Brad Pitt and George Clooney who they were playing, he let them figure it out for themselves
- Kraven the Hunter director says it's going to "surprise the hell out of a lot of people", as he confirms "strategic reshoots"
- New bloodsoaked trailer for Kraven the Hunter teases a gory mission and gives us our first look at Rhino
- A Borderlands fan with "16,000 hours worth" of series knowledge reckons the movie has a plot hole involving Zane from Borderlands 3
- Breakout mech game finds its way onto 1 million Steam wishlists after holding an open beta that nearly 3 million players turned up for
- The Bear star’s new sci-fi with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score debuts first trailer that looks like Groundhog Day meets Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Deadpool and Wolverine’s Gambit actor teases a secret spoiler hiding in the Marvel movie's post-credits scene
- Developers working on Nintendo Switch 2 games have reportedly been told not to expect the console before April 2025
- Persona 3 Reload producer apologizes for the third time for excluding Portable's female protagonist, reiterates it's "likely never" happening for the JRPG remake
- John Carpenter's Halloween and Ash vs Evil Dead are getting "fast-paced 90's arcade style games" from the developer of Shantae
- August 13
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- The original 1996 Diablo is now fully playable inside your browser, and it's still a vibe unmatched by the best action-RPGs ever
- Avowed devs compared notes with Baldur's Gate 3 to make "mercurial" companions with "distinct personalities"
- The $10,000 Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree speedrun tournament is over, and the winner is $4,000 richer after taking first place in "the final hours"
- Duke, Baroness, and more dive into the Energon Universe in this preview of GI Joe #1
- Final Fantasy Remake part 3 could switch to Unreal Engine 5 if Square decides it would speed up development
- 21 years later, one of the most beloved visual novel series ever made is about to turn into a mech-fueled strategy RPG
- Helldivers 2 director promises "action, not talk" as the studio aims to fix flamethrowers, "prevent excessive ragdolling," and "rework Chargers" in 60 days
- My Hero Academia creator Kohei Horikoshi reveals a Spider-Man 2 scene was one of the inspirations behind his hit manga
- Like a Dragon: Yakuza cast on how Kiryu evolves between the Prime Video series’ two timelines – including a difference in fighting styles
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom mapper discovers a weird geographical plot hole that puts Hyrule in direct opposition to Skyrim
- As development times spiral, Assassin's Creed Shadow lead producer says that 4 years is the perfect amount of time to bring a game from conception to completion
- Ryan Reynolds' "proudest achievement" in Deadpool and Wolverine is renaming a key MCU detail instead of checking for its real name
- The Rings of Power star Charlie Vickers thinks Galadriel and Sauron are "connected" by their psyche in season 2
- Space Marine 2 only allows for 3-player co-op because Space Marines "are almost invincible" and any more would make the shooter "too easy"
- Director of new Hellboy movie explains why he doesn't see it as a reboot: "Nobody wants to see a cheap knock-off of a Guillermo del Toro $100-million movie"
- James Wan in talks to direct remake of a classic horror that's had numerous reboot attempts
- Late Night with the Devil star David Dastmalchian's Creature Commandos comic will be separate from the animated show and feature Zatanna
- Halle Berry was down for a Storm return in Deadpool and Wolverine, but there's one Ryan Reynolds-shaped reason why it never happened
- Baldur's Gate 3 player hacks their way into the game's rarest ending to find an alternative that's literally impossible to achieve
- Supacell season 2 confirmed by Netflix just weeks after landing a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- Charlie Brooker says Black Mirror season 7 is like "OG Black Mirror" with an episode that has "one of the bleakest, heaviest gut punches yet"
- It's been 13 years, but Skyrim stans aren't sure what one mysterious stone carving means: "I honestly still don’t know what this symbol even is"
- The Penguin showrunner says she saw the show as an opportunity to evolve the crime genre with more complex female characters
- Legendary roguelike devs' new cat breeding RPG gets its "biggest wishlist spike in over a year" after adding autism
- Indie 'sequel' isn't a sequel at all, says solo dev behind the original cult JRPG: It's using the name without permission, but they "have no strength to fight" it
- The Last of Us Online's cancelation reportedly landed some Sony devs in hot water: "There were some heads rolling as a result of that one"
- Gary Oldman’s seriously underrated Apple TV show gets new trailer for season 4 which turns up the action
- I am obsessed with this new Lego Nightmare Before Christmas set
- James Cameron says the only way he won't direct Avatar 4 and 5 is if he's hit by a bus
- Agatha All Along cast reveal how the new Marvel show has nods to iconic movies like The Goonies, The Exorcist, and The Wizard Of Oz
- 2 years after it was first revealed, the Ghostbusters TV show is finally moving forward
- Half-Life fans mistake vaccine company founded by FPS stan as an official Half-Life 3 teaser from Valve: "We do not work in this sector at all"
- New Deadpool and Wolverine concept art reveals the movie nearly involved Daredevil and dinosaurs
- Bruce Timm says Batman: Caped Crusader gender-flipped The Penguin as Batman had "a lack of good villains" and he wanted more female ones
- Fallout creator shares early development footage of The Outer Worlds, says his team managed in 1 year what some devs couldn't do in 4
- James Cameron reveals that he's working on a new Terminator project, but it's "totally classified"
- Diablo 4 Season 5 is kicking up some deliciously broken loot and I can hear the demons shrieking out in terror from here
- Baldur's Gate 3's Lae'zel borrowed her fighting style from a legendary samurai's fight with his sleep paralysis demon
- Helldivers 2 players are worried about the future as the bots close in on Super Earth: "I bet Arrowhead does not have a working Super Earth biome ready to go"
- First teaser for Longlegs director's new horror movie is a creepy taste of one of Stephen King's scariest stories
- Valve isn't even trying to hide its worst-kept secret anymore, as unannounced hero shooter Deadlock is reportedly open to anyone and totally unrestricted by NDA
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice team on whether a threequel is likely: "Anything could happen"
- Black Myth: Wukong isn't even out, but its new feedback tool just amassed more than 60,000 players on Steam
- Alien: Romulus first reactions call it a terrifying return to horror for the franchise, and the "summer's best movie"
- After a 14-year wait, the original Red Dead Redemption might finally be coming to PC
- Saoirse Ronan "grieved" not being able to star in The Hobbit and wants to make more blockbusters
- The open-world survival Terminator game has been delayed to 2025 so that the devs can "do right by this universe, its fans, and our community"
- August 12
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- Baldur's Gate 3's success doesn't make Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer want to make Pillars of Eternity 3 because he's "out of step" with the RPG's audience
- 40 years later, two new Halloween games are in the works from the Evil Dead: The Game studio, and series' creator John Carpenter is "intimately involved" with one
- Joëlle Jones summons the thunder for her majestic new Storm #1 variant cover
- Tim Burton teases Wednesday season 2 and says Jenna Ortega is the reason they have a show
- Transformers officially introduces its "Worst Bot Ever", who turns into a ballpoint pen
- Tim Burton explains how Netflix's Wednesday inspired him to make Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
- Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer is the latest Fallout veteran to outline their specific terms for returning to the iconic RPG series
- Baldur's Gate 3 writer says they're sorry they "fumbled" an infamous community romance: "At least you know I ship it"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' dev time is even longer than the massive Assassin's Creed Valhalla - as Ubisoft wants the RPG's depiction of Japan to be "as authentic as possible"
- Netflix thriller with near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score unveils its first trailer
- The original Pokemon movie actor behind Misty and Jessie, Rachael Lillis, has died
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice stars promise "big swing" surprises in the sequel, as Michael Keaton says it's got a "stronger story" than the original
- Assassin's Creed Shadows is "pushing the limits" of what Ubisoft can do on PS5 and Xbox Series X
- Incredibly lucky first-time Dark Souls player survives parkour deathtrap by getting bounced around its notorious swinging axes
- Baldur's Gate 3 players have been so busy kissing Shadowheart, the RPG's most-smooched companion, her actor says "I think I've sprained my tongue"
- The Witcher 3's Geralt actor isn't Team Triss or Team Yen: "I would have liked an option to romance Shani"
- Ridley Scott gave Alien: Romulus director perfect, hilarious advice on taking over the franchise
- The ghost with the most returns in these exclusive new images from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
- The Straw Hats hang around and chow down in the gorgeous first look at Netflix's One Piece remake
- James Gunn gives an update on Superman, and suggests that he doesn't think there will be any reshoots
- Borderlands 3 rockets up Steam's best-sellers chart to its highest concurrent player counts all year after the Borderlands movie's launch
- Game of Thrones star admits there were "mistakes" made in season 8: "I think there were some interesting choices that didn't quite work"
- Netflix’s most streamed show of all time gets a new teaser, and it reveals a major detail about season 2’s plot
- Borderlands CEO is posting through the film's $100m flop with another Borderlands 4 hint, teasing "we're working extra hard four you on what's next"
- Infamous World of Warcraft damage fiend returns to the MMO after 1 year to sink 2 raid bosses with 300 million damage - by using a bug Blizzard thought it fixed
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard director says the RPG's big opening will make Inquisition's finale "look like a minor inconvenience"
- Online multiplayer game Mecha Break soars past 50,000 concurrent Steam players in its playtest, who all discover just how unhinged its character creator can be
- Game of Thrones star says his Jon Snow spin-off show was canceled because it wasn't "exciting enough"
- One of Marvel's most-delayed shows finally gets a new trailer, and contains a very deep-cut MCU cameo
- Doom: The Dark Ages gameplay reportedly shown at QuakeCon, revealing a revamped glory kill system and a mech with a cannon
- Daredevil: Born Again's new trailer brings back the vibe of the Netflix show as release date finally set
- Toy Story 5 has one of Pixar's best creatives as a director and some fascinating first details – and that has me very excited about the fivequel
- Skyrim is "very, very immersive sim" and Baldur's Gate 3 is "at least immersive sim-adjacent," declares imsim expert behind Dishonored and Prey
- Frustrated with the nerfs, Helldivers 2 grunts are protesting by letting the bots take Super Earth, and they're dangerously close to succeeding
- Alien: Romulus director explains his new film’s big Alien: Isolation Easter egg
- "We're back, baby!": Hi-Fi Rush and Tango Gameworks have been resurrected by PUBG publisher Krafton, with 50 transferred developers now working on Hi-Fi Rush 2
- August 11
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- Helldivers 2 CEO says some developers are also "disappointed" with Escalation of Freedom reaction: "The update had a bunch of nice stuff that isn't getting talked about"
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard was always going to "pay off" the ending and "promise" of Inquisition's DLC
- Following Steam and Xbox's lead, PlayStation seems to be inviting players to leave user reviews on the PS Store
- This adorable city builder has "no objectives, no points, just good vibes" and plenty of cute vegetable folks living their best lives, and it's coming to PC next week
- Despite pulling in 12,000 players this weekend, Valve still hasn't acknowledged the Overwatch-style shooter everyone knows it's making
- GTA 6 might already be using AI-powered animation tech, says San Andreas dev: "If anyone is going to make that step it's going to be Rockstar"
- August 10
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- The Witcher 4 "won't focus on Geralt," but his voice actor says he'll at least be "a part" of the RPG sequel
- Porting wizard pushes Minecraft to the limit by cramming 25 million blocks into their GameCube demake - beating the Switch version in the process
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard director wants the RPG's character creator to be a "make-good": "Full disclosure, Dragon Age has traditionally not done skin tones well"
- Helldivers 2 CEO admits he's "not great at the game," but Arrowhead doesn't "base design on if I get my ass handed to me"
- N64 modder continues to put Banjo-Kazooie into classic games, this time with a wonderful Zelda: Wind Waker invasion
- First Snow White trailer sees Gal Gadot's Evil Queen go after a singing and dancing Rachel Zegler as she frolics through the forest
- First footage for The Mandalorian and Grogu movie is shown behind closed doors at D23
- Jude Law is a Jedi in the Goonies-inspired first trailer for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
- Pixar surprise reveals new movie about a girl who trades brains with a beaver so she can live in their li'l kingdom, as one does
- With 96% positive Steam reviews, the new Five Nights at Freddy's game is being called the best in the horror series' 10 year history - here's why I'm not surprised
- August 9
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- Venom War #1 puts the last person you'd ever expect back in the symbiote - Spider-Man
- Fallout London devs are making plans to "launch our own indie games company," and with 500,000 downloads they're off to a great start
- For 15 years, this MMO player has held on to a letter his late father sent him in World of Warcraft: "He made sure I'd always have something to remind me"
- The new Ultimate Black Cat makes her debut and the "Strange Doctor" joins Ultimate Black Panther in Marvel's November 2024 Ultimate Universe advance solicitations
- Marathon development is reportedly facing trouble at Bungie: "There's a reason that it was planned for this year and slipped a whole year"
- No, Leia isn't getting married - she's joining the dark side with a "startling" father-daughter team-up in Star Wars: Darth Vader #50
- Steam's latest sale throws a spotlight on great games from tiny teams, including Stardew Valley and a blackjack roguelike with the Balatro dev's seal of approval
- Borderlands stunt coordinator says they originally filmed the PG-13 movie for an R rating: "We were blowing people's heads off"
- Hellboy creator Mike Mignola has "mixed feelings" about some of the other Hellboy movies, but thinks the new R-rated version is "amazing"
- Deadpool star Jack Kesy says he didn’t feel any pressure taking on Hellboy in new version: "The supporters, the haters, bring them on"
- Lord of the Rings star says "no one got paid anything" for the epic fantasy trilogy
- "I'll own this screwup": Helldivers 2 studio CEO apologizes for balance comments, admits fire weapon nerfs are "disappointing after we had a similar misstep earlier"
- Deadpool and Wolverine writers reveal details of Robert Downey Jr's intended Iron Man cameo
- New look at Daredevil: Born Again shows Charlie Cox’s titular hero and nemesis Kingpin in a new light – and might tease a new villain
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice has been summoned onto the cover of the new issue of Total Film
- Monster Hunter's loyal Gunlance enjoyers are eating good in Wilds as the unpopular weapon finally seems to have been given some love: "WE ARE SO BACK!"
- The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom introduces two new characters to the series, and gives Zelda's dad a massive glow-up
- New horror movie with disappointing Rotten Tomatoes score is getting a sequel – but not in the way you might expect
- Indie games need to be "cheap as f*** or expensive as hell," says publisher warning of industry "death cycle"
- For the first time ever in Call of Duty, Black Ops 6's Zombies mode lets you save and quit, and there are some pretty weird reactions to that
- 14 years after it was announced, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio's serial killer series gets promising update
- 8 years later, Overwatch players have only just noticed a key costume detail on Tracer that's inexplicably missing from the sequel
- Channing Tatum is willing his canceled Gambit movie into existence – and has spoken to Kevin Feige about it
- GTA 6's 2025 release is still on the cards, and while user content won't be the dominant force, its publisher is already "excited" about modding
- 15-year Mass Effect and Dragon Age veteran says people join BioWare "to build a story-focused, single-player RPG" - so we probably won't see a repeat of Anthem
- Five Nights at Freddy's 2 has released four script samples for the new movie… but only one of them is real
- Netflix responds to Arcane season 2, Terminator Zero, and more leak, says its team is "aggressively taking action"
- Fallout 1 is getting an unofficial remake within Fallout 4 with an "overhauled leveling system" and all its classic quests, and its demo is finally available
- Henry Cavill made himself sick after bringing a superhero-level of dedication to his Deadpool and Wolverine cameo
- Borderlands 3 gets its second update of 2024 and an excellent quality-of-life feature: you can skip to the end of the shooter if you've already got a max level character
- Ryan Reynolds posts a perfect goodbye to Chris Evans' Johnny Storm after Deadpool and Wolverine cameo
- One of World of Warcraft: The War Within's beta's most-beloved features turns out to be a bug that Blizzard is fixing, and folks aren't happy
- The devs behind the acclaimed Metroidvania Blasphemous are teasing something new coming Fall 2024, and no one knows if it's another sequel, DLC, or something else
- August 8
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- Star Wars Outlaws doesn't let you kill or steal from friendly civilians, and just like that my hopes of GTA in space have been dashed
- Another one of Marvel's non-canonical sidekicks from the New Champions is coming to the Marvel Universe in Scarlet Witch's new student Amaranth
- Bandai Namco says some obscure action-RPG called Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree "was a hit" that made a ton of money
- Amazing Spider-Man #55 pits Peter Parker against his greatest enemy - an awkward date
- One of the best indie action-RPGs of the past decade is getting a Kingdom Hearts-inspired follow-up that builds "on top of the best aspects," and it sure is pretty
- Risk of Rain 2 lead says new owner Gearbox has done right by the roguelike icon: "What Gearbox has allowed us to do and create has been incredibly exciting and fun"
- Director of new R-rated Hellboy movie says he approached it like a Stephen King adaptation: "It’s a horror story"
- Black Myth: Wukong's final trailer showcases "never-seen-before combat gameplay" and cutscenes from its "actual PC version"
- Palworld dev hits back at claims that the survival hit is a "meme game" that has "burned up," and defends Helldivers 2 while they're at it: "As long as someone is enjoying them then surely it's a win?"
- Hit erotic comic Sweet Paprika gets a "spicy" new spin-off from Scarlet Witch writer Steve Orlando
- Netflix confirms The Diplomat season 2 release date, as it shares first look at a windswept Keri Russell
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime's manga author has composed two original stories for its action RPG adaptation, and they both feature a "powerful new enemy"
- After burning down an iconic MMO casino, Old School RuneScape spends 2 years crafting a new anti-gambling bomb because 'Deathmatching' was a huge source of real-world trading
- Somehow, the video game movie curse returned, as Borderlands debuts to a 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes
- Ex Dishonored devs' new action RPG is "like Fallout meets Dishonored," and its creative director says it hits something that "games from Obsidian are pretty good at"
- The Genki Savepoint looks like a PS2 memory card for your Steam Deck, and it could solve one of my biggest handheld issues
- Helldivers 2's official feedback form is finally here, letting players impart impressions on armor, weapons, Stratagems, planets, hazards, and more
- Captain Underpants creator Dav Pilkey's bestselling Dog Man graphic novel series gets its first video game adaptation
- Helldivers 2 CEO says devs get "tons of feedback" but have "no good tools" for dealing with it, as yet another update has some players up in arms over nerfs
- Amazon's Like a Dragon TV show cast explain how it's totally different to other yakuza stories we have seen before
- The world's weirdest film festival returns: Welcome to Cat Fest, as curator who watches 15,000 videos a year insists "it's my full time job"
- New horror movie from Ocean Eleven's director gets a chilling first teaser – and it's giving us big In A Violent Nature vibes
- Like a Dragon: Yakuza TV show will include appearances from game actors and we're secretly hoping for Nugget
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard director says the RPG won't repeat Inquisition's most infamous mistake: "You spent ten hours in the Hinterlands"
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard won't let you control your companions because you can't handle it: "This is a much higher actions-per-minute game"
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's "expansive" major city is bigger than anything else in the RPG series, but it only got that way because of a single line from Inquisition
- Fortnite's changes to Battle Pass exclusivity are a hit, but fans want Epic to take it further: "A good first step, but not what people were asking for"
- After announcing price hikes, Disney Plus confirms password-sharing crackdown to begin next month
- Amazon's Like a Dragon: Yakuza TV show cast reveal that they have never played the games: "we wanted to do our own version"
- 39 of the biggest Borderlands movie Easter eggs and game references
- Will there be a Borderlands 2?
- Does Borderlands have a post-credits scene?
- Borderlands movie ending explained: Lilith's powers, the Vault, and your biggest questions answered
- Sequel to new George Clooney and Brad Pitt action movie Wolfs already in the works one month before release
- Nintendo never made the Wii game I always wanted, but it's now a reality thanks to the fan game of my dreams
- Influential visual novel finally gets official English release after 20 years, and fans can only post through it as characters and backgrounds straight up appear in the wrong scenes
- Deadpool and Wolverine director reveals which X-Men cameo was never on the table
- Netflix suffers "the biggest leaking disaster in anime history" as significant chunk of its 2024 slate appears online
- Elden Ring patch 1.13.2 buffs some Spirit Ash Summons for the second time in as many weeks
- Terraria creator once again proves he's his own game's biggest fan by getting Zelda-inspired fan art of an iconic sword tattooed on his shoulder
- August 7
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- Arrowhead CEO says a Helldivers 2 test server is "on the wishlist"
- The new Uncanny X-Men #1 explained - Everything you need to know about the new team and their mission
- Inspired by Pokemon Snap, MMO fan builds their own RuneScape Pokedex by spending 4 years tracking down over 500 players with Pokemon usernames worth billions of gold
- Blizzard confirms a Diablo 4 Season 5 bug was dishing out millions of free XP, but says it wasn't caused by Rogues – it was the new Unique Umbracrux gone haywire
- This new rom-com manga seems normal until Deadpool shows up – you can read the first chapter for free, and you really, really should
- Superman's Fortress of Solitude has been the Man of Steel's HQ and home-away-from-home for decades – until now
- Glen Schofield says The Callisto Protocol cost 4x more than Dead Space, needed 3 more months of work, and wasn't meant to be one-and-done: "The discussion we had was ... look at The Witcher"
- Bungie owner Sony responds to the Destiny 2 studio's massive layoffs in the most corporate owner way possible: "We have to enhance the efficiency of the business"
- "It took 5 years, but our cave generation finally delivered": At last, the Deep Rock Galactic devs have found their holy grail - a big stone penis perfectly crafted by the game engine
- 2 years and 800 hours later, solo Final Fantasy 14 grinder finally completes one of the MMO's most punishing challenges, immediately starts another run that's just as bad
- Spider-Man and Geralt might be lost to Fortnite's exclusivity void, but future Battle Pass collabs will now have the chance to return to the shop after 18 months in exclusivity prison
- Baldur's Gate 3's least-popular Origin character has an ending so rare that Larian says only 34 players have ever even seen it
- Baldur's Gate 3 on Honor Mode is apparently one of the hardest RPGs of all time, with over 1.2 million deaths and barely a 10% success rate
- Balatro is getting a "major gameplay update" next year with "new ideas and strategies" as the roguelike poker sensation sells 2 million copies
- Larian unveils a full year of Baldur's Gate 3 player stats: Astarion is the favorite, Paladin is best class, and "a surprising amount of you enjoy bear sex and tentacles"
- 22 years after The Bourne Identity, Matt Damon reflects on a "radically different" experience working with director Doug Liman on new movie The Instigators
- Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman must answer to a new boss in a game-changing issue of Absolute Power
- First look at Saturday Night Live movie from Ghostbusters director sees Succession and Bodies Bodies Bodies stars play comedy icons
- MMO fashionistas rejoice as Blizzard finally allows World of Warcraft players to assess their collections properly after an almost 13-year wait
- After working with M. Night Shyamalan and Christopher Nolan, Trap’s Josh Hartnett knows what they have in common: "They don’t feel the need to guard their creation"
- Elden Ring sicko takes the limiters off NG+ scaling, cranks Shadow of the Erdtree to NG+ 1,000 and still no-hits a 500,000-HP Messmer
- Stardew Valley and Sailor Moon mashup launches to 'Overwhelmingly Positive' Steam reviews, teases that this is just the start with an Early Access roadmap promising pets, marriage, and more
- Subscribe to SFX and save up to 50%!
- The popcorn bucket wars didn't end with Deadpool and Wolverine as Beetlejuice 2 unveils its own ghoulish take on 2024's biggest cinema trend
- Disney Plus is getting its second price increase in 12 months – and even these new features might not soften the blow
- Monster Hunter Wilds' Insect Glaive looks slicker than ever with new moves - including one straight out of The Matrix: Reloaded
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard won't suffer from Inquisition's weird camera issues, because the guy who made it is creative director now, and he "heard the feedback"
- The Sims 4 is getting some much-needed bug fixes following its messy update and Lovestruck expansion
- Game of Thrones star Kit Harington on why he will never watch House of the Dragon
- Deadpool and Wolverine director addresses those Taylor Swift rumors, as he thanks Marvel fans for "building a smokescreen of half-truths"
- Scrubs creator says he’s "definitely" going to do a reboot: "I’m open to doing a couple more years"
- Helldivers 2 devs might've leaked an Orbital Napalm Barrage Stratagem, and I'm sure a burning planet can only be good
- Silent Hill 2 remake devs are "dreaming that gamers will trust us" after a mixed run, but know that "trust is earned through actions"
- Red Dead Redemption 2's Arthur Morgan actor has to be the one to tell fans that they didn't get the 'good' ending - because there isn't one
- Fortnite devs U-turn after accidentally bringing back an exclusive skin after almost 5 years, quickly removing it, and threatening to take it from those who bought it: "Change of plan!"
- Helldivers 2's new fire weapon nerfs are down to one shotgun being used in "30% of all Terminid sessions," says Arrowhead's CEO: "Is that a problem? Yes"
- Diablo 4 Season 5 has a game-breaking bug that's reportedly awarding players up to 400 million XP for a single kill, and it could be all the Rogue's fault
- Borderlands movie called "uninspired", "unfunny", and "a disaster" in scathing first reactions – though some of its cast are getting praise
- Former Mass Effect devs are "not satisfied" with their new survival game Nightingale, worry it's "almost too open-world," tease "elevated version" coming this Summer
- August 6
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- Bungie admits Destiny 2's new Pathfinder system isn't working "as we expected," gives out over 3,000 Bright Dust as "a make good to get folks caught up"
- Genshin Impact 4.8 Emilie release time - Here's when the new 5-star Dendro character comes out and who's on her banner
- "Finally someone noticed": Alan Wake 2 dev thrilled to see people pick up on major story clues hidden in the audio almost a year later
- Oops, Diablo 4 accidentally gave Season 5 characters a bunch of extra tempering recipes, but Blizzard is "letting this one slide" for fun
- As Helldivers 2 players grill Arrowhead over more nerfs, its CEO speaks to the "buff everything" and "it's too easy" crowds: "We are listening and will tweak"
- Jenna Ortega says "my soul left my body" when she first saw Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice: "I wanted to remember it for the rest of my life"
- Over a year after launch, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is coming to last-gen consoles next month and I think I hear my PS4 begging for mercy
- Jenna Ortega says Wednesday season 2 was inspired by Poe's The Masque of the Red Death, a short story Mike Flanagan fans will be familiar with
- Helldivers 2 players in shambles as flamethrowers get nerfed just in time for the flamethrower-themed Warbond: "Not one single person is happy about this change"
- The writers of the latest Blade Runner comic break down the creation of their retro-futurist Japan
- Baldur's Gate 3 director promises "something shiny, something big" for Larian's next RPG: "It's going to take a little bit of time, but ... I think you're going to like it"
- Fallout New Vegas director Josh Sawyer explains why the RPG's opening is a perfect example of respecting the player's skill choices
- A real-life goldfish just beat Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss, and this one did it without committing credit card fraud
- House of the Dragon's 'new' Daenerys actor addresses stepping into the iconic Game of Thrones role in Daemon's vision: "I had a blast"
- Ryan Reynolds had a "conversation" about squeezing in another unlikely cameo in Deadpool and Wolverine: Nicolas Cage’s Ghost Rider
- GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 actors come together to host the next Future Games Show at Gamescom virtual showcase
- Helldivers 2's big Escalation of Freedom update finally fixes broken social menus after months of players asking, adds a new "eerie and foggy" swamp planet to die on
- First trailer for season 2 of one of the year’s best anime shows is here – along with a surprise episode announcement and a 2025 release window
- 25 years on, M. Night Shyamalan recalls the moment The Sixth Sense went from unlikely hit to making box office history
- Roguelike hit Balatro can't be sold to any gambling companies or casinos even after its creator dies, because its solo dev is so against that idea they've written it into their will
- John Wick 4 sequel is in the works – and it's a TV show
- Helldivers 2 players failed their Major Order, so despite saving a children's hospital 2 months ago the schools will now suffer instead
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director has RPG fans wrapped around his finger as he teases that Larian "won't be putting Easter eggs in any of our videos, until we do"
- Ryan Reynolds pays tribute to Blade star Wesley Snipes with behind-the-scenes Deadpool and Wolverine pic: "He's Marvel Daddy"
- Dafne Keen confirms Deadpool and Wolverine's X-23 is from Logan – and reveals what happened to the character after the 2017 movie
- After using generative AI in a co-op painting game 2 years ago, Palworld studio CEO wants to keep "a healthy distance from technological advancements"
- After being denied his "pretty" reward, League of Legends world champion sneaks his favorite character into his commemorative cosmetic
- Shadow of the Erdtree speedrunners thrilled to rediscover massive boss-cheese time-skip, only to have it banned from their $10,000 race
- Oh god: Helldivers 2 doubles down on horror with an Automaton human processing plant in the Escalation of Freedom update
- Henry Cavill breaks silence on his Deadpool and Wolverine cameo in perfect fashion – with a Justice League reshoot reference
- Helldivers 2 players resign themselves to failure of the ongoing Major Order, which means after months of dodging them, the comically-ignored mines are nearly here
- Red Dead Redemption 2 actor says the hardest part about playing Arthur was the crouch-running: "3 days later my thighs were absolutely killing me"
- August 5
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- Horror gaming giants collide as Dead by Daylight and Five Nights at Freddy's crossover is announced for Summer 2025
- Hideo Kojima had to delay Metal Gear 2 to go help fix an "emergency situation" on an RPG spin-off of one of his own games
- Remember when Humble Games said its mass layoffs won't affect devs? Well, one of those devs has turned to Patreon amid fears of losing "critical post-launch support"
- After 23 years, Animal Crossing's NES emulator still houses a mystery that comes down to 30 Japanese players nobody's been able to find
- Skyrim player begs for help after their Speech apparently drops to -1 mil, making bribes cost 20 million gold: "I think I would fail the Whiterun guard letting me into the city"
- Cobra Kai actor reveals one of the show's best lines was "ripped straight from the dub" of My Hero Academia: "I was just like, I'm gonna be Bakugo"
- Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon to end with season 4, season 3 to start filming in early 2025
- Star Wars Outlaws DLC roadmap revealed, and the best part may be the return of a fan favorite who dominated the beloved Clone Wars and Rebels animated series
- 10 years on, Kojima's PT is still jump-scaring people, now including a prolific hacker who dug up the "insane, wild" truth behind Lisa's unnerving behavior
- Behind the scenes of the Stardew Valley concert, creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone was living his pre-game dev dream: "Music has always been my primary thing"
- Diablo 4 Season 5 release time – countdown to Season of the Infernal Hordes is on
- As My Hero Academia ends, One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda pays a touching tribute to its creator Kōhei Horikoshi with a gorgeous reworking of his teenage fan art
- Game of Thrones creator says seven more TV spin-offs are currently in the works – and four of them are animated
- When is Borderlands coming to streaming? A look ahead to a potential digital and streaming release date
- Borderlands movie star says "dealing with Marvel and Star Wars" fans helped her prepare for the video game fandom: "As a fan myself, I get the connection that they have"
- Lenovo confirms Legion Go Lite leak is simply an error, says FAQ page "could have used some better proof-reading"
- Borderlands movie stars talk taking inspiration from Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn and making the beloved characters their own: "I wanted to be my own self with this one"
- Dragon Age lead writer gives RPG fans a glimmer of hope with the teaser that "anyone who didn't die onscreen could potentially show up again"
- Death Stranding 2 devs prepare for a "grueling and fun climb" ahead
- Capcom fuels hopes for Monster Hunter Wilds launching in very early 2025 by giving it the same video treatment Monster Hunter World got 6 months before its launch
- If you spend time gaming on a mobile, you need to know about GeForce NOW
- For Zelda's debut as a playable main character, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom gives the princess the cutest dang horse the series has ever seen
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's best minigame will make a grand return in Part 3 of the Remake trilogy with a "revamped or even better version"
- 10 years after a World of Warcraft bug robbed them of rare legacy mounts, MMO fans are thrilled to discover that Blizzard has finally fixed it
- M. Night Shyamalan explains why he filmed Trap’s concert for real with thousands of extras: "I want it to feel alive and messy"
- The best Deadpool variant you never spotted in Deadpool and Wolverine is an incredible joke at Hugh Jackman's expense
- Who are Tyland Lannister's new friends in the House of the Dragon season 2 finale? The Triarchy explained
- Xenoblade developer Monolith Soft is hiring for a new RPG - leaving some fans to worry what happened to the action game it announced 7 years ago
- Horror sequel Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is set to start filming this October, says star Matthew Lillard
- It's taken almost a year, but genius Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players have finally figured out how to reclaim an unbreakable Master Sword that you're only supposed to have in the prologue
- Diablo 4 sleuths crack a year-long mystery to find a new ring, leading some to dream of the secret cow level Blizzard won't stop teasing everyone about once more
- As House of the Dragon season 2 comes to an end, HBO unveils first teaser for a new Game of Thrones spin-off
- Manor Lords' next big patch will finally let you eat your sheep, which is great news for anyone who ended up with way too many
- First teaser for It spin-off series Welcome to Derry promises a bloodsoaked frightfest
- Phantom Blade Zero dev debunks claims it said "nobody needs that platform" over Xbox release reports, says it hopes to be "accessible to everyone"
- Palworld's profits are so massive that its devs' next game could "go beyond AAA," but its CEO doesn't want to wield "such an enormous budget"
- Half-Life 3 once again claimed to be in the works, this time from a voice actor's resume, and features "off-world" gameplay with vehicles
- The first teaser for The Last of Us season 2 is here – and it’s given us a glimpse at Kaitlyn Dever’s Abby
- Where is Otto Hightower? House of the Dragon’s Hand of the King’s quick season 2 finale appearance explained
- Daemon has a huge Game of Thrones moment in the House of the Dragon season 2 finale - here's what it means
- One line in House of the Dragon season 2 finale sets up Aemond’s fate
- August 4
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- Divinity: Original Sin's story was done in "three days or something," but the Baldur's Gate 3 team now "spend years discussing story and trying to develop characters"
- NSYNC star and Sephiroth actor has never beaten his character's secret boss fight in Kingdom Hearts: "I'm kinda badass as Sephiroth"
- Final Fantasy 14 Mobile, apparently a whole separate MMO, is seemingly confirmed by... China?
- Larian Studios is finding it hard to make an RPG that feels totally new because "we did a lot of things in Baldur's Gate 3"
- August 3
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- GTA 4 tech lead left Rockstar because he thought the series was getting "too dark, too depressing almost"
- If the RPG ever gets a sequel, the actor behind Baldur's Gate 3's Raphael would "find it hard to say no" to returning: "If he is Larian's creation, he's also mine"
- Months after Xbot shut down lean teams, Microsoft reportedly forms a "smaller" studio to create AA games based on Blizzard IP
- Life is Strange Double Exposure confirms Max became a major Final Fantasy 7 stan with some adorable crossover outfits locked behind the $80 Ultimate Edition
- Years before Baldur's Gate 3 blew everyone away, Larian's CEO nearly quit the industry over publisher pressure on the Divinity series
- August 2
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- Xbox officially delays Obsidian's Avowed to February "to give players' backlogs some breathing room"
- A new Darksiders game is coming, and after a Zelda-style adventure, a loot-driven ARPG, a Soulslike, and a Diablo-esque hack-and-slash, nobody knows what to expect
- Nintendo wasn't brave enough to put lesbian fox girls in Super Mario Bros. 3, so this new Japan-inspired platformer has taken matters into its own hands
- Helldivers 2 is now straight-up threatening players with a new Stratagem they've avoided for months: Kill 1.5 billion enemies ASAP or you get the mines
- 25 years later, Hugh Jackman shares his emotional X-Men reunion with Ke Huy Quan
- Larian boss says the Baldur's Gate 3 approach would "scare" shareholders and publishers: "You will try to box it, you will try to control it, which is the exact opposite of what we want"
- The final battle between Spider-Man and the Green Goblin gives Norman Osborn the perfect ending
- Destiny 2 reportedly moving away from annual expansions after The Final Shape amid declining sales, Bungie apparently planning more Into the Light-style free updates
- Deadpool and Wolverine’s incredible opening song was in an X-Men movie with Hugh Jackman over 20 years ago
- After 12 years, legendary visual novel Katawa Shoujo is coming to Steam in a "modified" SFW version for those who want it
- The Umbrella Academy actor praises the "funny and talented" Last Of Us star Nick Offerman as he joins the final season of the hit Netflix show
- Elliot Page teases how the characters are "trying to rebuild their lives" in The Umbrella Academy season 4
- Umbrella Academy star teases how the threat in the final season is different from what has come before
- After 10 years, Ubisoft's always-online racing game The Crew has snowballed into a massive consumer rights campaign that's now looking for 1 million EU signatures
- One of Deadpool and Wolverine’s most surprising cameo actors calls their appearance a "dream come true" as they share behind-the-scenes pic
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev shares Larian boss Swen Vincke's response to the RPG's explosive launch: 'You know what this means? It means we get to do it again'
- The scrapped Baldur's Gate 3 add-on was playable when Larian canned it, and director Swen Vincke has some salt for the wound: "It's something you all would have liked"
- Behold the power of PC gamers: The complete $100 Kingdom Hearts collection jumps 396 ranks in monthly sales chart immediately after coming to Steam
- Valorant lead says CS:GO and Overwatch comparisons are not "fair to other games" or "what Valorant has become"
- As Concord and Marvel Rivals near, Valorant lead isn't worried about launching the tactical FPS on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S as it "scratches a different itch" than hero shooters
- Surprise! Valorant is out now on Xbox Series X/S and PS5 after just 1 week in open beta: "We are so excited to be welcoming this brand new audience"
- Out of things to do in a game? Manor Lords dev has a good idea: "Enjoy other games for a while" and come back "when there's new fun stuff"
- World of Warcraft: The War Within's pre-patch wasn't a big hit for the MMO, so Blizzard is changing the 90-minute cooldown event to hit every hour
- Batman: Caped Crusader has an incredible Superman deep-cut from 80 years ago – and quietly introduces an unexpected Justice League hero
- Russell T Davies promises "great answers" to Anita Dobson’s Mrs. Flood mystery in the next season of Doctor Who
- Newly teased D&D x MTG Secret Lair features Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion and Karlach
- Batman: Caped Crusader creators reveal that early on the decision was made not to make it a continuation of Batman: The Animated Series
- The Rings of Power season 2 will see a new side to the Ents that will deepen the lore
- Netflix's Terminator anime series was allowed free rein in the franchise on one condition
- Ryan Reynolds knows why Thor was crying in Deadpool and Wolverine and now Chris Hemsworth has cryptically weighed in: "I can keep secrets too"
- The main Pokemon games still aren't available via Nintendo Switch Online, but the next best thing is coming with one of the greatest spin-offs
- Diablo 4 Season 5 patch notes are here, and even at over 10,000 words, Blizzard still missed stuff out
- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet become the third Pokemon RPGs to hit 25 million sales, surpassed only by Sword and Shield and the classics
- The First Descendant's first major update turns on the gold and XP boost tap for 3 days as devs delay a new hotfix
- Galadriel will have to overcome "the darkest part of herself" in The Rings of Power season 2
- Thanks to his Deadpool and Wolverine appearance, this Marvel actor has taken a surprising world record from Hugh Jackman
- 20-year-old romhack site that was a treasure trove of Pokemon fan games and JRPG translations winds down after achieving "almost everything it set out to do"
- Paradox woes continue after Life by You cancellation, now with yet another "indefinite" Prison Architect 2 delay
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree players are taking advantage of a new bug that lets you beat down the DLC's final boss without reply
- Alien: Romulus director wanted his movie to look like Ridley Scott’s original so bad that he used the same concept art and even did side by side takes
- Ed Boon continues the tradition of Mortal Kombat 2 movie 'leaks' with this fan-tastic first look at Kitana
- Helldivers 2 player asks if they might one day ride atop mechs "like steeds to battle," studio CEO responds that he's "100% pro metal steeds"
- Alien: Romulus star Cailee Spaeny ran "out of ways to be horrified," so she watched horror movies 24/7 to get more ideas
- Helldivers 2 Game Master Joel seen for the first time on video and now we have 3 unnerving truths: he isn't human, has psychic powers, and his name is an acronym
- August 1
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- I am infinitely more excited for the Until Dawn movie now that I know one of the best characters from the game is being played by the original actor
- Fantasy manga Frieren: Beyond Journey's End is finally coming back from its second hiatus of the year
- Zelda: Ocarina of Time's fastest speedrun just got its first new route in 3 years, but nobody's sure if wrapping a Wii U gamepad in a rubber band is cheating
- The new Visions of Mana demo opened my eyes to a 33-year-old JRPG series I've stupidly ignored my whole life, and now I don't know where to start
- "Help us understand," pleads MMO dev as Old School RuneScape players vote on infamously loud monsters and decide they should be louder, actually
- My favorite Star Wars game gets an HD re-release after 22 years, and thankfully it's miles ahead of the janky Star Wars Battlefront collection
- We're finally getting a Civilization 7 gameplay reveal at Gamescom, and a whole "20+ minute deep dive" at that
- Win a Blu-ray of Sting!
- Marvel's most unlikely super team is back to clean up the mess left after Blood Hunt in Blood Hunters #1
- Bungie reportedly shelving "the next Destiny" indefinitely following another brutal wave of layoffs
- Win a Blu-ray of The First Omen
- Avowed reportedly delayed to early 2025 as Xbox moves the Obsidian RPG out of the way of Stalker 2
- All the D&D announcements from Gen Con 2024 in one place
- I've been waiting over a year for this adorable 3D Stardew Valley-like life sim to launch, and its full release is finally here
- "Just to shame my garbage friends," Elden Ring player beats Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss without getting hit using 40 different weapons and counting
- "Xbox is mistaken," says indie publisher teasing "what's next" for its mega-hit biking roguelike, because "Descenders 2 does not exist"
- The ultimate hitman comes out of retirement in a new Netflix anime that begs the question: What if John Wick worked in retail?
- Batman: Caped Crusader star talks crafting a Harley Quinn without the Joker and what that season 2 tease could mean for her villain
- 4 years after Ark 2 was announced, Xbox announces a playable demo at Gamescom only to immediately un-announce it
- Former GTA leads' new open-world game isn't as mysterious if you pay attention to their audio series: "A lot of the questions could be answered by listening"
- Batman: Caped Crusader star says chasing Kevin Conroy's voice was an early mistake and reveals his pick for who should be James Gunn's live-action Batman
- FromSoftware games come full circle as ingenious Elden Ring players use fire to cheese a tough Shadow of the Erdtree fight without even entering the boss arena
- As mass layoffs ravage the industry, this free Pikmin-inspired indie game is here to let you fling co-workers at management in an effort to unionize
- Helldivers 2 dev was "surprised and delighted" players didn't sacrifice some kids for a new Stratagem, so good on you for not doing that
- Retro Gamer Celebrates 20 Years Of The PSP
- 2024 D&D Player’s Handbook nerfs one of the best Cleric spells (but that’s actually for the best)
- Florence Pugh reacts to co-star Sebastian Stan praising her performance in Marvel’s Thunderbolts and admits she had no idea about Robert Downey Jr.’s return
- "I lost three saves": The Sims 4's latest post-Lovestruck bug is corrupting fans' "favorite" legacy files
- Invincible creator explains why every episode of season 3 will feel like a finale: "The stakes are really high"
- Star Wars Outlaws' lead says "bad faith" discourse discussing protagonist Kay's looks are "not worth engaging with"
- Batman: Caped Crusader star explains why her mother-in-law was the biggest inspiration for her gender-flipped Penguin
- Star Wars Outlaws sidesteps Resident Evil 4 Remake and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's yellow paint discourse by making it optional
- Former Rockstar dev says keep those GTA 6 expectations in check as "technology is moving much slower," so we may not see something like the "jump" from San Andreas to GTA 4
- Former GTA dev says Rockstar had so long to make San Andreas that it "went crazy" with the amount of stuff added
- After the House of the Dragon season 2 finale hits the internet early, HBO reveals how it was leaked and what it plans to do next
- Invincible creator Robert Kirkman has a number in mind for how many seasons he wants, but thinks it could even beyond that
- Upcoming action sequel Nobody 2 casts another returning actor alongside Bob Odenkirk
- The First Descendant's new support character is a walking Guitar Hero minigame and I can't decide if it rocks
- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet VGC is about to become wildly different thanks to new rules that ban Legendary and Paradox 'mons, taking many of the strongest team members out of action
- Batman: Caped Crusader has done Batman: The Animated Series proud by landing a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- "Please be Fallout New Vegas 2": Obsidian is working on an "unannounced title" other than Avowed, and fans hope it's a new post-apocalyptic RPG
- Squid Game season 3 will be Netflix show’s final season – and it’s coming out next year
- Helldivers 2 studio CEO turns to the power of democracy to crowdsource fresh progression ideas as many grunts "are sitting on mounds of digital gold"
- Palworld dev says "you won't regret" playing more indies instead of "the latest battlepass in your favorite AAA game"
