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- October 31
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- "At least one" Game of Thrones movie is reportedly in early development at Warner Bros.
- The genuinely scary demo for this PS1-style survival horror game is like Silent Hill mixed with FromSoftware dungeon crawlers and it's worth canceling your Halloween plans for
- Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered's $10 upgrade fee would've been a lot easier to swallow if Sony had just showed this 9-second comparison clip in the first place
- Monster Hunter Wilds players use the beta character creator to recreate their hunters from Monster Hunter World, aged for good measure, and also their real cats
- Negasonic Teenage Warhead is about to save the Multiverse in her own one-shot, but first she and Deadpool have to catch an escaped pig
- Squid Game season 2 teaser reveals the return of Player 456 and teases new contenders for the grand prize
- Bethesda's Todd Howard told Troy Baker he didn't want him to star in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, but after "a blind taste test, people chose you every time"
- After 12 years, a seemingly abandoned fan translation for a lost Japanese action-RPG surfaced out of nowhere, but the original creators say it's "wildly obsolete"
- I already love this nasty MTG Foundations pirate deck, and you can see it exclusively here
- BioWare veteran's new studio hit with layoffs as its survival game Nightingale "hasn't been commercially successful enough"
- Arcane season 2 release schedule: When is episode 7 on Netflix?
- First look at It prequel series that will "explore the origins" of Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise teases our return to Derry
- Final Fantasy 16 star laments "brain drain" as industry woes sink team behind his GOTY Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown and many more: "I just hope people stay in the industry"
- A staggering 52% of US Xbox Series X|S players launched Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 the Monday after release, analyst says: "Bonkers engagement"
- The Witcher's original Geralt actor is "really sad to see" Henry Cavill leave the Netflix show, but he's "excited" to see what Liam Hemsworth brings to the table
- There was originally a major Obi-Wan twist in The Phantom Menace that would've changed the way we watch Star Wars: A New Hope
- James Gunn's Superman will "be its own thing" but Christopher Reeve's son hopes his dad's "benchmark" performance inspires it
- The Ultimate versions of Wolverine and Nick Fury make their official debut in next month's Ultimate Universe: One Year In special
- Dragon Age: Origins writer says the RPG series has a secret "overarching plan," but won't reveal the "very last plot" in case BioWare actually makes it
- After 9 months and over 800 hours of attempts, Borderlands 2 player manages to complete the entire game without getting hit once
- The directors of the Superman Christopher Reeve documentary admit they were worried when James Gunn's studio acquired the film – but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise
- Arcane season 2 first reactions say the Netflix show has "upped the ante in every way imaginable"
- Upcoming Marlon Brando biopic gets its first look and fans cannot get over how uncanny Billy Zane looks: "I honestly thought this was Brando"
- We might already know where Tommy Maximoff is in Agatha All Along – all thanks to his Marvel comic book backstory
- Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow are full of invisible, ultra-rare shinies, and this RPG mod will make sure you never miss one again
- The Monster Hunter Wilds beta isn't even live yet, but over 23,000 fans on Steam gather to stare at its start-up screen
- Bond star Lashana Lynch explains why she was "actually quite happy" not to work closely with Eddie Redmayne in new cat-and-mouse thriller The Day of the Jackal
- Microsoft's decision to close Arkane Austin was "stupid," says founder: "Recreating a very special group like that is, I would dare to say, impossible"
- Flash star Sasha Calle was originally set for multiple Supergirl appearances: "It was very heartbreaking for me, and it was very confusing"
- Agatha All Along just followed in WandaVision's footsteps and delivered a last-minute twist, and Marvel fans are losing it
- Agatha All Along finale brings Kathryn Hahn's witch the closest she's been yet to her Marvel Comics counterpart – and it might give us a clue as to her MCU future
- Marvel's Wolverine reportedly loses its creative director to Xbox's Perfect Dark as Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart leads step up to fill the void
- Halo Infinite update rewinds time for Halo 2's birthday, throwing the FPS back 20 years with a nostalgic mode that deletes sprint and adds classic maps
- Marvel fans spot an early detail that basically reveals Agatha All Along's twist in episode 4
- 6 years after Deltarune's initial launch, Toby Fox says the RPG's next 2 chapters will "100% come out in 2025"
- Will there be an Agatha All Along season 2?
- Does the Agatha All Along finale have a post-credits scene?
- Agatha All Along ending explained: Who dies, what happens at the end of the Witches' Road, and what happened to Nicholas Scratch?
- Nintendo launches its own streaming service where you can listen to banger music from Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon on and offline via an app
- October 30
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- Microsoft says Black Ops 6 is the "biggest Call of Duty release ever" as Activision meets its goal to reach "as many players as possible wherever they are, however they play"
- Steam now requires devs to tell players they're playing games with kernel-level anti-cheat tools
- Remember how Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was playing all coy about Nuketown? Well, Nuketown's coming just a week after launch
- Baldur's Gate 3 devs celebrate 50 million mod downloads since Patch 7, including 10,000 renaming Withers to Bone Daddy: "Uh, glad we could facilitate that"
- After four seasons of Jack Ryan on Amazon Prime, John Krasinski and one of the show's original directors are returning for a feature-length movie
- Mass Effect and Dragon Age vet explains the origins of the infamous "BioWare turn"
- Ubisoft is tackling "dynamics behind the polarized comments" facing games like Assassin's Creed Shadows with a "player-centric and gameplay-first" approach
- After a nerf in his home turf, the Elden Ring DLC's notorious final boss has seemingly invaded Yu-Gi-Oh, but I have bad news for him: he kind of sucks
- Skyrim veteran says "there’s not a single day that I’ve even contemplated going back" to Bethesda: "You're very much a cog in the machine"
- The studio behind Saw is developing a live-action adaptation of terrifying horror video game Outlast
- After 32 years, beloved X-Men arcade game becomes Marvel Universe canon with hilarious deep cut in NYX #4
- Ubisoft wants to restore the "creativity and innovation" that built its success in "2010 - 2020," and it's cut over 2,000 employees in 2 years to help do it
- Hideo Kojima shows 9 seconds of Death Stranding 2 title screen footage and warns that it's "very much temporary"
- This Halloween-themed monster catching RPG looks like a Pokemon romhack in all the best ways, with one big twist: battles are 4v4
- Nexus Mods clarifies its stance on paid mods, name-dropping Bethesda's attempts with Fallout 4, Skyrim, and Starfield: "Modding should be a pursuit of passion"
- Monster Hunter was a "big inspiration for both co-op combat and weapon design" on Dead Cells dev's new roguelike: "The depth of each weapon means there's always more to learn"
- Asked about his hopes for The Witcher 4, Geralt's actor "would love to explore the beginnings of the Witchers"
- Wicked first reactions overwhelmingly praise Ariana Grande's "scene-stealing" Glinda
- If you love Space Marine 2 and wanna know more about Warhammer 40K, you need to see this book
- This 3 month Game Pass Ultimate deal will get you playing Black Ops 6 for less
- Eddie Redmayne says Day of the Jackal series was "an actor's dream", as he explains what sets his character apart from James Bond and other fictional spies
- Netflix's new number 1 movie is a chilling horror that critics love, but viewers aren't sure
- Suits star jokes that they better ask him to cameo on upcoming spin-off as the cast isn't "getting anything" from the show's streaming resurgence
- MultiVersus has $60 worth of FOMO-inducing DC skins that'll be gone forever once its Halloween event is over
- EA boss reckons with Dragon Age: The Veilguard, BioWare is finally returning to "BioWare-type games" after the failure of Anthem
- Late Star Wars actor Peter Cushing being brought back by AI for new documentary
- Jake Gyllenhaal won't return for season 2 of Apple TV crime drama Presumed Innocent, which will follow a new case and characters
- After beating what should be the hardest Baldur's Gate 3 challenge ever, masochistic streamer raises the bar with a diabolical plan: “Honor Mode, solo, without using any consumables”
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard release time – the countdown to BioWare's next RPG is finally on
- The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted returns next month
- After "personal attack" of Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail English VA, MMO boss Yoshi-P says if you have "any sort of criticism, bring it to me, I'm the one approving this material"
- The directors of the Christopher Reeve Superman documentary break down the late actor's narration in the movie: "You always want the person to tell their own story"
- Silent Hill 2's Masahiro Ito says he'd "never have come up with the background of Pyramid Head" without one cult classic horror from 1990
- Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero publisher warns players to delete modded Custom Battles "immediately to avoid a ban"
- Sonic 3 director says Keanu Reeves did "research" on Shadow the Hedgehog because he wanted to create a "faithful version" of the character
- Loki star Ke Huy Quan teams up with Sisu director for new Christmas-themed action-thriller
- Pokemon X & Y's fabled follow-up Pokemon Z was apparently planned all along, as an alleged leaked design document hints at an alternate form for its likely Legendary mascot
- GTA San Andreas veteran says Rockstar employees were pretty chill about its launch 20 years ago: "Most devs had taken a holiday"
- Dune: Prophecy star teases her "psychopath" character: "It's like playing Ted Bundy in a way"
- Eddie Redmayne's latest Fantastic Beasts update suggests the Harry Potter spin-off is officially dead
- These two unrelated turn-based strategy games with eerily similar titles announced their console launch dates, which are just a day apart, on the same exact day
- New Daredevil: Born Again trailer reveals first look at Punisher's return – and a Ms. Marvel crossover
- Don't expect an Overwatch 2-style Apex Legends 2 - EA boss says "the version 2 thing has almost never been as successful as version 1"
- Moon Knight director says although there have no been talks over the Marvel character's future, "there could be a film"
- Heretic star Hugh Grant believes that A24 horror movies are the perfect "antidote" for the current state of cinema: "They have brought real, fresh filmmaking back"
- Blue Lock animator reveals why season 2 looks so "bad": "We did the best we could"
- The search for the new Lara Croft has reportedly been narrowed down to a wish list including a Game of Thrones star
- 2025 is officially back to peak MCU as Marvel confirms 9 new shows and movies coming – and unveils first major looks at Black Panther spin-off, Ironheart, and Wonder Man
- With Xenoblade Chronicles X's Nintendo Switch port finally on the horizon, one of the JRPG's last-standing Wii U survivors is already counting down the 3,300 hours until his return
- Overwatch 2's roguelike-esque mode has been so "incredibly popular" that Blizzard is supporting it for the 15% of players still jumping in
- The team behind Apple TV's Silo vow not to drag it out beyond Hugh Howey's book trilogy: "This is not Outlander. This is not a long science fiction series"
- Ghost of Tsushima didn't need to be historically accurate because it didn't "impose any ideology" and placed "top priority on entertainment value"
- Deadpool and Wolverine's Disney Plus release date has been revealed – but not in the way we were expecting
- Hugh Grant says the scenes he's most proud of in new horror movie Heretic took him 40 years to achieve
- Dune: Prophecy star says she was immediately sold on the sci-fi spin-off show for one reason: "Space nuns that are evil and have sex? This is completely me!"
- October 29
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- EA says Dragon Age: The Veilguard has "breakout capabilities" due to "incredibly strong" reviews and "limited competition" in the AAA space
- This is why you read Helldivers 2 patch notes closely: a goldfish "was laid to rest" in space where the pressure "caused it to heat up, violently explode, and disintegrate"
- Concord development deal reportedly rivaled The Last of Us Part 2 and Horizon Forbidden West at $200 million, which Sony has now chucked into a big ol' furnace
- The Substance star Margaret Qualley to play a 'Victorian Psycho' in new horror-thriller from Longlegs producer
- "The inverse of A Quiet Place" was the pitch for Hugh Grant's new horror movie Heretic, directors say
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard tech analysis calls BioWare's latest RPG the best AAA multi-platform PC release "in a long, long time"
- As Sony shuts it down, Concord studio reflects on "a heavily consolidated market" and says "putting new things into the world is critical to pushing the medium forward"
- As fans brace for Monster Hunter Wilds, Capcom reveals it's lured around 3 million players to this action RPG series in the last 6 months alone
- After 18 years the Wayans brothers are reuniting for a new Scary Movie, the first in the comedy horror franchise in a decade
- Dragon Age players desperate for greatswords in The Veilguard are working through the 5 stages of grief before the RPG even comes out
- Wicked director says he can't wait to "introduce the world to a new Ariana Grande" as he praises the pop star's "emotional" performance
- Concord is officially, fully, "permanently" dead as Sony announces it's closing the failed hero shooter's studio and moving on: "We will take the lessons learned"
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle won’t see Indy kill any dogs: "This is obviously a little bit different" from Wolfenstein "where the dog will explode"
- 32 years after a failed pilot for a cartoon adaptation of NES classic Battletoads meant to rival TMNT, somebody's trying to sell the animation cels for $35,000
- New Disney Dreamlight Valley DLC adds Animal Crossing-esque critter catching, iconic characters like Hades and Maleficent, and new worlds to explore
- Josh Brolin is open to returning as Marvel villain Thanos if the idea is right, and says he "would do anything that the Russos wanted"
- The final few minutes of Star Trek: Lower Decks are making people cry – "I don't know anybody on the crew [who didn't] tear up a little"
- Rumored Warzone 2025 map Avalon appears to be fully explorable in Black Ops 6 spectator mode, and with it comes a classic Call of Duty: World at War map
- Quentin Tarantino really liked the "f*ck you to Hollywood" Joker: Folie à Deux – "Todd Phillips is the Joker"
- This is not a drill, you can get an RTX 4080 Super gaming PC for under $2,000 right now
- Silent Hill 2 art director says no, Tekken's Anna Williams didn't inspire the appearance of Fukuro Lady, it was a "picture from a BDSM magazine that I used to read"
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard went for stylized art, but Mass Effect 5 project director says the sci-fi RPG "is photorealistic and will be as long as I'm running it"
- Balatro creator added extra Jokers to the hit roguelike because someone at its publisher "mentioned something about '150 Jokers' and instead of correcting them I just made 30 more"
- Showrunner of Dune prequel series confirms you don't need to have seen the movies to watch: "This can be a point of entry"
- Forgotten JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X is finally getting a Nintendo Switch remaster after 10 years, and it's only a few months away
- New Netflix feature allows you to save and share the best scenes from your favorite movies and shows
- Challengers director's new movie Queer starring Daniel Craig unveils its sumptuous, sensual first trailer
- 35 years later, a Simpsons mystery has finally been answered
- Hit Apple sci-fi show Silo will feature big changes from the novels in season 2, including character deaths
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard lead celebrates seeing one of his biggest goals for the RPG come true, as he admits it was "the greatest privilege and hardest dev cycle of my career"
- Risk of Rain co-creator led the design of one of Deadlock's new heroes, to the surprise of no one: "Viper is such a Hopoo character"
- Monster Hunter Wilds' arachnophobia mode that turns spiders into crawling piles of goo "might be creepier" than the bugs themselves, so fans will take their chances
- Robert Downey Jr. will never let anyone recreate him in AI, and says he'll automatically sue anyone who tries, even after he's dead: "My law firm will still be very active"
- Netflix and David Fincher are reportedly collaborating on a new Squid Game series, and it's sent Mindhunter fans spiraling
- Marvel editors reveal the Chris Evans conversation that led to Deadpool and Wolverine's foul-mouthed post-credits scene: "I'm game for whatever you want me to do"
- One of Marvel's biggest box office misfires actually made a profit after all
- Wicked director originally wanted to cast "no-namers" as Elphaba and Glinda: "It's a big enough property on its own, so we can discover two people"
- After 8 years, Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe has finally unlocked every achievement in his own farming sim - and he has some tips, too
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard sleuths track leaks to YouTuber with distinctive Rook, prompting apology as he didn't know his RPG review footage was being passed around
- Path of Exile 2's early access launch hit with a 3-week delay, pushing the action RPG back to December: "I'm really sorry, this one really hurts"
- Joker star Joaquin Phoenix says he talked to Christopher Nolan about playing the iconic Batman villain in The Dark Knight: "I wasn't ready then"
- Arcane's showrunner can't say "too much" about season 2, but teases that a Game of Thrones-style death count is "indeed possible"
- Heretic writers say Hugh Grant was the perfect choice of villain in the upcoming religious horror movie because of his "incredible conviction and intellect"
- October 28
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- Resident Evil creator says the secret to a good remake is knowing what "made the original work," praises RE4 Remake for improving the "half-assed" story he wrote "in 2 weeks"
- After 19 years, a cult classic survival horror game's infamous block mechanic was found to be a typo in its code, and thanks to a modder "this oversight is fixed"
- Netflix wants an English-language Squid Game spin-off, and they've brought in the Gone Girl and Fight Club director to handle it
- After killing almost every category in Super Mario 64, speedrunning legend completes his domination with a once-unthinkable record of the game's most grueling challenge
- BioWare lead answers all the Mass Effect questions popping up around Dragon Age: The Veilguard – "How you bring a sci-fi RPG to life is different than other genres or IPs"
- Manga fans around the world saved an underrated series at risk of cancellation: "I never would’ve imagined that so many people would be willing to go all in"
- After forming a new studio at an "apocalyptic" time for game devs, Disco Elysium writer says "this industry is finished" but "video games are not"
- Skinamarink director to helm new horror movie from A24 with Elijah Wood producing
- Borderlands fan will get to see Borderlands 4 early after Gearbox agrees to fly him to the studio following cancer diagnosis: "I never expected anything like this"
- Bungie's reportedly troubled FPS Marathon breaks 18 months of silence with a vague update from its game director: "We do this all for you"
- 33 years later, Jim Lee's iconic X-Men #1 cover gets an Ultimate Universe tribute in new connecting variants
- Helldivers 2 players are calling the absolutely brutal new major order "unwinnable," but at least they have the new WW1 gun and its melee bayonet to help them out
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev says Dragon Age: The Veilguard is "the first Dragon Age game that truly knows what it wants to be" and absolutely "compatible with my experience during BG3"
- Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim is bringing back Christopher Lee’s Saruman – and it isn’t through AI
- One World of Warcraft player burned roughly 8.4 million gold by bidding on the MMO's old $475 mount right before a cheaper $90 version came out
- Walmart's Lego deals are better than they have any right to be this side of Black Friday
- 9 months after launch, House Flipper publisher's Hairdresser Simulator is bafflingly charging players extra for new "Long Hair DLC"
- 12 years since The Hunger Games, star Stanley Tucci compares that dystopian future to the one in his new Netflix sci-fi movie The Electric State
- Ralph Fiennes reveals first plot details for 28 Years Later – and says the sequel has been shot, too
- Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown "breaks your heart" in her sci-fi Netflix movie The Electric State, says co-director Joe Russo
- After "a month of grinding" and 123 deaths, Resident Evil 4 master completes what should be an impossible challenge
- We have some bad news about your favorite Agatha All Along characters, as the creator says death is "permanent" in the Marvel show
- No Man's Sky dev fixed one fan's 611-hour save because "when a player has put that much into our game it deserves the engineering fix"
- Fortnite is saying goodbye to its various Battle Pass currencies and hello to good old fashioned XP, with rewards soon unlockable no matter what modes you play
- Monster Hunter Wilds casually mentions 100-player lobbies ahead of its first beta, but this is no MMO: 16 players show up at once just like Monster Hunter World
- This was supposed to be a chill fishing game with Animal Crossing vibes, but then hardcore players made movement sweaty and turned it into Tony Hawk’s Underground
- Hideo Kojima has 'reviewed' Venom 3 and it's just as brutal as his Madame Web verdict
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard Metacritic scores are in, and it's just short of Origins and Inqusition
- There are now two Predator movies coming out next year – and one of them might involve samurai and pirates
- Avengers: Doomsday directors the Russo Brothers wouldn't have returned to Marvel with Robert Downey Jr. if they couldn't make a sequel "on equal footing with Infinity War and Endgame"
- Hugh Grant jokes that he struggles to "snap out" of darker roles: "I killed three people this afternoon"
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 player wins race to first Dark Matter camo after 57 hours of grinding and just 3 hours of sleep, gets the other 32 just 1 day later
- Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered tech analysis says that $10 upgrade fee is completely fair: "Too much work has been poured into this to offer it as a free upgrade"
- George R. R. Martin reveals another Game of Thrones spin-off was shelved "a couple of years ago" at HBO
- Heretic star Hugh Grant says he created a "full biography" for his horror movie villain and believes audiences love baddies as "it's a recognition of our true nature - selfish, evil, cruel, vicious"
- Skyrim "was not as polished an experience on the PS3" as getting the RPG to work on Sony's console was a "Herculean effort for Bethesda"
- Marvel star Zoe Saldaña wishes she could have done a "better job" with her Guardians of the Galaxy character Gamora
- Win a Blu-ray of Deadpool & Wolverine
- Win a Blu-ray of Interview With The Vampire
- Three months after Deadpool and Wolverine was released, viewers are still catching weird Easter eggs – including a reference to Master and Commander
- Manor Lords is getting new maps "soon," but the city builder's dev is clear that only "future expansions" could venture outside the base game's existing European theme
- Balatro creator admits his attempt to 100% his own roguelike game before the mobile port was doomed, and now he has "some words for John Balatro"
- Like a Dragon: Yakuza adapted one of the games' most iconic moments, but bizarrely left it out of the show entirely
- Marvel star Paul Bettany confirms that his Vision series will shoot next year – and he's studying Agatha All Along in prep
- VP candidate Tim Walz loved his Dreamcast so much he "thought it would conquer the world," and he loves Crazy Taxi so much because GTA was "a little bit harsh"
- As the free-to-play Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp prepares to go offline, Nintendo reveals more on the paid replacement - including its $20 price tag
- With The Witcher 4 on the horizon, CD Projekt CEO teases that he "can't wait" to reveal "more about what the future holds," but only "when the time is right"
- Sorry Marvel fans, Agatha All Along’s showrunner just shut down a major Thanos theory
- Dungeon Master's Guide 2024 has "less stuff you don't need," according to the D&D team
- October 27
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- As pre-order culture swells, Monster Hunter Wilds reminds players the upcoming beta really is free: "No pre-order is needed to play!"
- Forget Dragon Age and Mass Effect 5 for a minute, this Anthem dev would "love" another shot at BioWare's doomed co-op game
- Shadow of the Colossus' epic battles get an action-RTS remix in this open-world game about defending an ever-growing tower built on top of a friendly giant
- The voice of Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag's most treacherous pirate wishes "more video game companies would use mocap, because I think the performance stuff in Black Flag is brilliant"
- Former Bethesda lead reckons Starfield 2 will be "one hell of a game" because the team "had the tremendous advantage of Oblivion" when making Skyrim
- You would not believe how low the Balatro creator's expectations were for the roguelike: "My actual production project folder is called 'CardGame' and is still in my 'Learning' directory'"
- Your choices in Avowed matter, and Obsidian promises to give players "moment-to-moment opportunities to express and explore where they're leaning"
- Like a Dragon: Yakuza’s Kiryu actor knows exactly why the adaptation’s already-divisive time jump scenes are important: "We wanted to depict the humanity"
- October 26
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- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 debuts to 'Mixed' reactions on Steam as players complain about wonky performance, crashes, and the CoD launcher
- As Cities: Skylines 2 woes continue, Paradox Interactive returns to the first city builder with new paid DLC 18 months after its 'final' update
- On its 20th anniversary, GTA San Andreas veteran shares the open-world was originally split into three maps: "Memory was very tight on the PS2"
- Borderlands fan diagnosed with stage 4 cancer sees GoFundMe jump over $10,000 to smash its goal days after the game's community gets involved
- As Borderlands 2 fan flexes their super-fast loading, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford appears to tease "seamless" Borderlands 4 loading, then refuses to elaborate
- Like a Dragon: Yakuza’s Kiryu actor "really wants" to try the game series, but only if he has enough time to play it from start to finish
- October 25
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- Diablo 4 boss asks players if the broken Spiritborn class should be fixed and gets an overwhelming response: "Leave it!"
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies has the FPS series' first arachnophobia toggle, and y'know, I think I'll just stick with the regular spiders please
- After 28 years, N64 emulation is still a nightmare even for Nintendo – Banjo-Tooie on Switch runs its opening demo at goofy double speed
- Wolverine drops in for Amazing Spider-Man #60, the finale of Zeb Wells' run
- Don't worry, the Manor Lords dev is still working on the city builder RTS despite silence as of late: "Nothing 'cool' sadly but still it's hard work that's needed"
- Spider-Man 4 swings onto the big screen in July 2026 with a release date that bumps right up against Christopher Nolan's new movie, also starring Tom Holland
- Publishers are absolutely terrified "preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes," so the US copyright office has struck down a major effort for game preservation
- Destiny 2 players were right: Bungie confirms an issue "in our code" making some god roll guns harder to get, and says it has already identified a potential fix
- Blindfolded Super Mario 64 speedrunner sets new world record in a disastrous attempt where he died 7 times and declared "this run sucks"
- Despite Netflix's wave of cancelations, this drama becomes the joint-longest-running series on the streamer thanks to a surprise early season 7 renewal
- D&D Dungeon Master's Guide 2024 lore glossary was a fun but slight "pain in the ass," say devs
- The 7 best new movies and shows to stream this weekend
- After nightmare popcorn buckets and Facetiming with Megan Thee Stallion, Venom: The Last Dance's wild marketing recreates a viral TikTok trend for its release
- Studio behind arguably the best walking sim ever has the perfect pitch for its next game: a mix of Ico, Studio Ghibli, and David Attenborough
- Netflix confirms more Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft is on the way, as it unveils first look at season 2
- A Helldivers 2 player wrote a whole essay on how it feels to fight bots and almost nobody noticed, but one of the lead devs has responded with an essay of their own
- It looks like Star Wars: Skeleton Crew has an intriguing connection to Ahsoka
- The Girl with All the Gifts and Lucifer writer Mike Carey's new series Ghostbox is a horror story with a fantasy twist
- "Many times it seemed the game would never get made": Alan Wake 2 is "finally complete" thanks to its new DLC, but even its director says "no one knows about the future"
- The Last of Us and Death Stranding actor doesn't want to take his game roles to TV and film: "I'm more excited about the other version"
- John Wick almost had an alternate ending where the puppy lived, but Keanu Reeves "stood up" for the original vision
- Former PlayStation boss says Japan Studio's closure "wasn't necessarily" surprising: "When a studio hasn't had a hit for a while, then they forget how that feels"
- One of Amazon's best animated shows is coming back for season 4
- World of Warcraft celebrates its 20th anniversary by selling a $90 version of a mount that cost $475 around 6 years ago, knocking the MMO's economy sideways
- Sea of Thieves devs' mysterious survival game rears its head after 4 years, as Xbox boss Phil Spencer goes hands-on
- Before Balatro took over the world, the roguelike's creator considered naming it Fool's Gambit - "obviously not a great name," but it had a killer main menu
- Good Omens will conclude with one, feature-length episode rather than a full season 3
- Diablo 4 boss admits the Spiritborn is "going to have some issues that need to be addressed," but "some people don't recognize the difference between 'fix' and 'nerf'"
- 18 months after it was first announced, Star Wars’ Rey movie has lost another writer – the creator of Peaky Blinders
- Star Wars: Legacy of Vader explores the period between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker with an "angry, frustrated… dangerous" Kylo Ren
- Microsoft Gaming laid off over 2,500 workers this year, but it still found enough spare change to give its CEO a $79 million bonus
- Despite its first-person combat, Avowed doesn't want you to get stabbed in the back: "You have to make sure you're giving players full awareness of the area around them"
- After Death Stranding and Metal Gear, Hideo Kojima wants to create a game that aliens will look at "centuries later" and say "that's awesome"
- An ex-Marvel writer says one of the MCU's most common complaints is being addressed: "Some of their series should have been films… they're taking that more into account now"
- Hades 2 patch 6 lets us live out our Zelda and Dark Souls fantasies by making pots easier than ever to smash, and nerfs nearly every new enemy
- Helldivers 2's Democracy Space Station may have been dominating our Major Orders for the last month, but Arrowhead still isn't "going into the details" on it yet
- Venom: The Last Dance director talks her "beautiful memory" of filming the ending: "Everybody was super emotional"
- Venom: The Last Dance post-credits scene: Does the Marvel threequel have a post-credits scene?
- Venom: The Last Dance ending explained
- Toxin: Does Venom's symbiote "grandson" appear in Venom: The Last Dance?
- Legendary horror dev says the whole time he was making Silent Hill 1, 2, 3, and "a cancelled title, I never had any girlfriends. Coz I had no time for it"
- October 24
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- Marvel reveals its full slate of January 2025 comics and covers featuring the X-Men, Spider-Man, the Avengers and more
- Hunt Showdown dev defends Ghostface skin by saying it "fits into the dark, supernatural atmosphere as an ageless, almost mythological figure that transcends eras"
- Overwatch 2 devs say a "world where both 5v5 and 6v6 exist permanently" is on the table as they experiment with a return to 12-player modes
- Eric Barone confirms Stardew Valley update 1.6.9 for all platforms and reminds fans some new stuff is "better experienced" on a new save
- A second, secret Predator movie from Prey director Dan Trachtenberg is coming out next year
- "I'm honored that Stardew is included": Unstoppable roguelike Balatro continues its indie game bucket list with Stardew Valley collab art drawn by Eric Barone himself
- Two of the year's biggest sci-fi hits Alien: Romulus and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes are getting sequels
- The Croc remaster is ditching the PS1 original's most defining and controversial feature - its Resident Evil-style tank controls
- The Witcher season 4 confirms another major character has been recast, and the actor has revealed why
- Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered tech analysis says it's almost more remake than remaster, rivaling the fantastic Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls remakes
- Helldivers 2 has a new Warbond coming next week, and it's got anti-stagger armor plus a booster that lets you sprint forever at the cost of your health
- Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees creator Patrick Horvath announces new satirical horror Free For All
- One of Metaphor: ReFantazio's hardest optional bosses has a glaring weakness – itself
- Disney announces new physical collectors editions of some of Disney Plus' best Star Wars and Marvel shows with tons of deleted scenes
- Singer dedicates a whole song to her "Stardew Valley wife" Abigail, and even creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone is listening to it
- Remastered Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successor Yooka-Replaylee is pointedly not saying it's coming to Switch 2, but it's definitely letting fans think that it is
- It only takes 2 years to become a god: Pokemon Platinum scientist achieves omniscience by beating 4 billion versions of the RPG at the same time with the power of math
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 isn't even out yet, but early players are already chasing rare camos and one streamer has claimed a gold weapon skin in just 1 hour
- Liam Neeson may retire from action movies soon because "you can't fool audiences": "I'm 72 – it has to stop at some stage"
- Paradox says Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is more of "a spiritual successor" than a sequel, and it "maybe shouldn't be compared to" the original RPG
- Terminally ill Borderlands fan asks if there's any way he can see Borderlands 4 early, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says "we're going to do whatever we can to make something happen"
- OG Final Fantasy 7 speedrunners discover "biggest skip yet" after 27 years, shaving 2 hours off the JRPG for the low, low cost of making Aerith watch her own death
- Agatha All Along episode 7 is getting compared to one of Mike Flanagan's best TV shows, as Marvel fans call for Patti LuPone to get an Emmy
- Palworld dev tells haters to "do yourself a favor" and "stop thinking" about the survival game: "Who wants to dedicate time and energy to things they don't like?"
- Samuel L. Jackson thinks Star Wars' Mace Windu could be "out there walking the Earth" with his Pulp Fiction character
- My favorite head strap for Meta Quest 3 is already half price, so I think we should cancel Black Friday
- The Batman star reveals why he didn't reprise his role in spin-off show The Penguin: "There was a lot of violence towards women, and that’s not my thing"
- Agatha All Along just topped WandaVision with its latest episode and it's proof that creator Jac Schaeffer should become Marvel Television's answer to Kevin Feige
- As the Prince of Persia Metroidvania team disbands, Baldur's Gate 3 dev says if Ubisoft wants "subs over sales" then "developers must get used to not having jobs"
- Venom: The Last Dance director talks developing the story with Tom Hardy: "Getting to collaborate with your best mate of over 20 years is really a beautiful thing"
- The official Asus ROG Ally charger dock is down to a price I'd happily pay
- Helldivers 2's army of flying bots has been stopped, but now players face a tough decision - protect the Democracy Space Station or the Terminid version of Jurassic Park
- Juno Temple compares Venom: The Last Dance to her forgotten role in The Dark Knight Rises: "It was a real introduction into what it is to be a part of one of these movies"
- Baldur's Gate 3 looks like a totally different RPG with a first-person camera mod, and it's so cool that Larian lead Swen Vincke says "I want to play this"
- My favorite Nintendo Switch accessory is already a bargain but I'm holding out for a record-low price this Black Friday
- Venom 3’s villain Knull has finally unveiled its actor in The Lord of the Rings star Andy Serkis
- Agatha All Along just gave away a finale spoiler, but it might not be exactly what you think it means
- A Helldivers 2 Xbox release is "not up to" Arrowhead but to Sony and Phil Spencer to "duke out" - but if Sony says no, that's it
- Retro Gamer charts the creation of Sonic Generations and its new remaster
- Agatha All Along episode 7 just dropped another intriguing clue that Wanda is still alive, giving more hope to Marvel fans
- As Agatha All Along episode 7 finally reveals the true identity of Aubrey Plaza's Rio, Marvel fans are rejoicing that their theories were right
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 release time – the countdown to the new CoD game is on
- Dev behind one of 2024's best Metroidvanias rage-quit Hollow Knight at first, but came back later and "now, I think I've put over 200 hours into it"
- October 23
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- This indie zookeeping RPG originally looked so much like Stardew Valley it had to be redrawn, but that didn't stop it from hitting 283% Kickstarter funding
- You might get to playtest the new Cyberpunk or Witcher, but only if CD Projekt Red decides your "gamer profile" is good enough for Geralt
- Marvel celebrates 50 years of Storm in 2025 with Black History Month one-shot
- After dropping 5 of the best platformers ever made and taking an 11-year hiatus, Ubisoft is finally considering a Rayman revival
- Denied their crafting fix, Destiny 2 players got so unlucky that they started conspiracy theories about the MMO's drop rates, and got so loud Bungie had to correct them
- Marvel reveals release dates for 3 movies in 2028 – and fans are hoping it's the start of the X-Men in the MCU
- Metaphor: ReFantazio has the ultimate solution to JRPG grinding, and all you need to do is cook a bunch of noodles
- The new Iron Man #1 explained - Everything you need to know about Tony Stark's new armor, his new status quo, and the return of Iron Monger
- The game where you can parry everything, nukes included, adds its "most requested mechanic": the most violent fishing mini-game on the planet
- Anti-piracy company Denuvo is tired of gamers saying its DRM is bad for games: "It's super hard to see, as a gamer, what is the immediate benefit"
- Space Marine 2 speedruns the Helldivers 2 arc, reversing unpopular nerfs and buffing tons of guns: "I forgot that once the game comes out ... it's yours first and foremost"
- A bizarre PS2 tie-in to a disastrous French CG movie has held the final performance of Harry Potter's original Dumbledore captive for 20 years, and it's finally been preserved
- When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it"
- Unlike Nintendo's Palworld lawsuit, legal expert expects Sega's patent dispute to be settled "relatively soon"
- The cast of superhero satire The Franchise want Olivia Colman to play their version of MCU boss Kevin Feige
- League of Legends' new champion is a giga-busted Arcane crossover whose kit is so overtuned that even pros are running scared: "Honestly what the f*** at this point"
- Venom: The Last Dance director on why Knull is the right villain for the threequel and Thanos-style hopes for the future: "He's way too big to be one and done"
- First trailer for Cobra Kai season 6 part 2 turns up the heat as Miyagi-Do takes on the world’s best martial artists
- Almost 10 years later, Monster Hunter Wilds will finally expand one of the coolest and rarest monster types in the whole series
- Multiplayer games dominated Steam Next Fest with extraction shooter Delta Force wearing the crown, and even the top roguelike and weird sim are technically co-op
- Elden Ring streamer spends 20 hours dying 900 times in an attempt to beat Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss with basically 0 health or stamina
- JRPG fans are eating good - as if Metaphor: ReFantazio wasn't enough, another Persona 5 spin-off seems to be getting a Steam release soon
- Matthew Lillard says his Scream character is "definitely still alive" and that he'd "love" to play him again because "I'm very slutty"
- Tom Holland breaks his silence on being cast in Christopher Nolan's new film, saying the "phone call of a lifetime" was "reminiscent" of his Spider-Man casting
- The Life of Chuck star Chiwetel Ejiofor teases Mike Flanagan's "mind-blowing, beautiful" Stephen King adaptation
- Monster Hunter Wilds open beta starts next week with crossplay across all platforms, but PS5 players can get in early through PS Plus
- Two years after it was announced and multiple scripts later, Amazon's God of War series finds new showrunner in For All Mankind creator
- A John Wick anime movie is in the works – and it will be a prequel to the original film answering one of our biggest questions
- Upcoming Star Wars show Skeleton Crew is bringing back an adorable deep-cut character from the made-for-TV Ewok movie
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' art book is apparently being altered to remove an unauthorized flag from a real-life re-enactment group, despite Ubisoft's previous plans to leave it in
- Off the back of an impressive Steam Next Fest demo, Lovecraftian city-builder Worshippers of Cthulu leaps straight into early access
- Final Fantasy 16's Ben Starr will host the 42nd Golden Joystick Awards, joined by guests from The Legend of Zelda, Baldur's Gate 3, and Assassin's Creed Origins
- Apple TV's Severance season 2 trailer offers up an Irving-shaped watermelon, new Lumon employees, and more mind-bending mysteries
- The Sims 4 gets a massive new update ahead of Life and Death, granting Grim a last-minute glow-up before players have his babies
- Indie dev behind photorealistic RTS about ants says a maxed-out PC "easily" costs 3 to 5 times more than a PS5 Pro, but won't "look or play 3 to 5 times better"
- The AMD chip that could power next gen handhelds just leaked, but rumored specs keep shifting
- One of Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered's biggest glow-ups is because of a malfunction in the original that got missed because the open world was too big for Guerrilla to check everywhere
- As MCU Blade reboot is removed from Marvel’s release schedule, everyone is making the same joke about one line from Deadpool and Wolverine
- Less than three weeks after hitting theaters, Joker: Folie a Deux gets a Blu-ray and DVD release date – complete with a four-part "longform" documentary
- As Dragon Age: The Veilguard finally nears release and Mass Effect 5 rumbles on in the background, BioWare project director pops up to tease "We like multiple endings"
- Tom Holland finally confirms that Spider-Man 4 is happening – and reveals when filming will start
- The Day Before studio falters once more as it delays a new co-op game after a failed Kickstarter to work on a prop hunt game that "many of you have been waiting for"
- Cozy RPG sim My Time at Evershine raises over $2.5 million via its Kickstarter, and it's not even done yet
- Ryan Reynolds seemingly suits up as Deadpool again for a mystery project – with a returning Deadpool and Wolverine cast member
- October 22
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- Diablo 4's Halloween event lets you turn your mount into a zombie spider horse with free cosmetics and play Russian Roulette with The Butcher
- After 15 years in development, this infamously deep D&D-inspired roguelike finally goes 1.0 in December
- This new official Monsterverse sequel to Godzilla vs. Kong might be the Metroidvania to convince me to start caring about Metroidvanias
- The team behind the excellent Prince of Persia Metroidvania has reportedly been disbanded because Ubisoft wants those devs on games with better sales potential
- GTA Online update destroys GTA 5’s most satisfying highways, and fans are ready to revolt
- New Doctor Doom series relocates The Strange Academy to Latveria as the supervillain becomes its new headmaster
- Gorgeous new tactical RPG based on 28-year-old run and gun arcade game may be the best way to reignite a forgotten franchise
- Skyrim design lead says moving on from the fantasy RPG to sci-fi games like Fallout and Starfield was a "relief" that let Bethesda "exercise new creative muscles"
- The Sims 4 unveils its first batch of influencer-created DLC, and it’s better than anyone could have expected
- MCU Blade reboot delayed indefinitely as Marvel removes it from its schedule
- Shigeru Miyamoto thought Banjo-Kazooie was so great it helped convince him to delay Zelda: Ocarina of Time - "It's so amazing that we don't want to be outdone"
- Undefeated JPRG salesman Yoko Taro congratulates Metaphor: ReFantazio developer, immediately asks fans to buy Nier Automata too
- From OB to KO, Loki star Ke Huy Quan kicks serious butt in the first trailer for new action movie Love Hurts
- This SteelSeries PS5 wireless headset never leaves my head, and now it can never leave yours at its new record low price
- This is still the best CPU for most players, and it's never been cheaper
- Naughty Dog's next game is reportedly all about "player freedom," and it might just make good on the original idea for The Last of Us 2
- Horizon Zero Dawn was the result of Guerrilla being "done" with Killzone, and wanting to make something that was "by choice, the opposite"
- 18 years since his last appearance, Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run studio has stop-motion Pingu series in the works
- John Wick director addresses reports of a fifth movie: "If we wake up tomorrow and there's a good idea, we're doing it"
- Like a Dragon: Yakuza release schedule – when is episode 4 on Prime Video?
- James Cameron says it "makes no sense" Zoe Saldana's Avatar work hasn't received major awards love just because she's playing a CG character
- “Characters are sometimes depicted topless for prolonged periods of time”: Dragon Age The Veilguard’s ESRB rating deserves its own ESRB rating
- Super Smash Bros creator says the $600k he spent on his YouTube channel was "an investment toward a brighter future for games," so it's fine he made no money off it
- Zoe Saldaña is ready to pass the torch to a new Gamora after Guardians of the Galaxy 3
- Cowboy Bebop's co-creator says this new sci-fi anime is his "masterpiece" – and the John Wick director is also involved
- A month after Nintendo's Palworld lawsuit, Sega files its own patent infringement claim against idle RPG devs' gacha mechanics
- Assassin's Creed Shadows early access officially canceled as Ubisoft drops Collector's Edition price by $50 amid delays and scrapped Season Pass plans
- Netflix just acquired the rights to a new "high concept" sci-fi thriller, which may or may not be a Cloverfield movie
- Forgotten Disney movie gets a comeback with this exclusive Lorcana Azurite Sea reveal
- One of the year's best anime movies is getting a streaming release – and it's surprisingly soon
- Avengers: Doomsday filming is set to kick off very soon
- Super Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai teases a new game that's secretly been in the works for years – and "it should be announced sooner or later" if "we're able to get it made"
- I failed at my favorite Steam Next Fest city-builder because I was too distracted by the amazing movement to actually build anything
- It's not Space Marine 3 but an episode in Amazon's video game show Secret Level is the next best thing: an animated "sequel" to Space Marine 2
- Venom 3 may be the final Venom movie, but it doesn't look like Tom Hardy is done with the character yet - he still wants to fight Tom Holland's Spider-Man
- Netflix reportedly shutters its AAA game studio, dismantling a team of former God of War, Overwatch, Halo, and Gears of War devs
- Robert Downey Jr. helped save Tom Holland's MCU debut as Spider-Man: "Where did all of the kid's lines go?"
- Venom 3 first reactions have divided critics, but most agree it's a fun "guilty pleasure" send-off for Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock
- This Steam Next Fest RPG gem paying tribute to classics like Ultima and D&D is like one big Skyrim dungeon but 10 times more elaborate
- October 21
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- Tom Holland joins Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan's next mysterious film – which is rumored to be a 1920s vampire horror movie
- This Steam Next Fest action-RPG is a delightful throwback to '90s anime and SNES classics, even if it is also marketing for a much bigger and hornier deckbuilder JRPG
- Quiet everyone, this is Vampire Survivors' "full circle" moment: the roguelike darling is finally getting its Castlevania expansion, and "It's Big. IT'S BIG"
- The Penguin showrunner Lauren LeFranc talks those Sopranos comparisons: "It’s a very nice thing to be compared to one of the greatest shows on television"
- The Penguin star Deidre O’Connell on the "responsibility" of playing someone with dementia: "I just want to honor these people that are going through this sh*t"
- Venom no more - Eddie Brock is now Carnage as he gets his own ongoing title next year
- Palworld gets a taste of its own medicine in new mobile "pal-like" blatantly inspired by Pocketpair's survival game
- The Penguin star Cristin Milioti watched movies where actors "swing for the fences" for "courage" when preparing to play Sofia Falcone
- We finally know who's making the new Mario & Luigi RPG, and it's the veteran studio that co-developed Square Enix's incredible Octopath Traveler JRPGs
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 devs confirm the FPS is launching without the controversial Riot Shield
- The biggest city-builder at Steam Next Fest is a Lovecraftian nightmare that might be the scariest colony sim ever
- Stephen King's Carrie TV show in the works from Haunting of Hill House director Mike Flanagan
- Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon Jinn, Mace Windu, and more lead the new Star Wars Jedi Knights comic series - "You've literally never seen so much lightsaber action in a comic!"
- Beloved factory management game Factorio launches its sequel-sized DLC to 98% overwhelmingly positive reviews and an all-time player count record
- The fictional movie disaster at the heart of superhero satire The Franchise actually got real scripts and a full treatment
- Legendary horror movie Saw celebrates its 20th anniversary with Billy the Puppet answering fan questions on Reddit
- The Witcher series is reportedly getting a brand-new book in just 6 weeks
- Jason Blum has an update on the Dead by Daylight movie, but we might be waiting a while: "You can’t make the movie until the script is right"
- After reports that an Xbox exec said "nobody cares about Banjo-Kazooie," he's correcting the record: "I absolutely know how much Banjo-Kazooie means to our fans"
- Smile, A Quiet Place, Sleepy Hollow, and more big screen horror franchises to get comics from IDW's new horror line
- Marvel star Charlie Cox says that Daredevil: Born Again will parallel the Netflix series by including a "very long, very cool" 'one-take' fight scene
- Hallmark's gaming Christmas ornaments are much better than I expected
- As One Piece's anime turns 25, fans are coming together to praise the new Fan Letter special as an "absolute masterpiece"
- Marvel star Daniel Brühl recalls the time he was most starstruck, which involved a strange invite to Robert Downey Jr.'s "village"
- Matt Smith gives update on House of the Dragon season 3: "I've not heard a thing"
- Marvel star Daniel Brühl says a "total disaster" of a movie inspired him on superhero satire The Franchise – not his time with the MCU
- Black Myth: Wukong just got an Xbox ESRB rating alongside confirmation that a PS5 physical release is imminent, meaning I can finally see what all the hype is about
- The mysterious Nintendo Switch playtest has seemingly leaked, and it looks like a Minecraft meets MMO game in which players "develop" a planet together
- James Gunn says David Corenswet is "going to blow people the f*ck away" as Superman, and "people are going to die" for Rachel Brosnahan
- David Harbour says the Stranger Things finale is the "best" episode they have ever done and left everyone in tears
- After Zelda fans theorized wildly on the source of this Breath of the Wild Nintendo DS demake, the original creator has come forward: "it's so funny seeing people speculate about this"
- 23 years later, Batman: Hush 2 reunites Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee for a sequel to one of the greatest Batman stories ever told
- Marvel's Daredevil: Born Again gets release date as new trailer is shown behind closed doors at New York Comic Con
- First Gladiator 2 reactions call the sequel "epic" and "absolute sicko sh*t," with Oscar buzz for Denzel Washington already
- Ambitious Fallout mod project aiming to recreate Fallout 1 inside Fallout 4 calls it quits, suspending the project but making it clear that it's not Bethesda's fault
- Just one week after Metaphor: ReFantazio's release, Persona director Katsura Hashino says he's already cooking up his next JRPG
- The Boys star is "terrified" that spin-off Vought Rising won't live up to expectations because the scripts are so "incredible"
- Bethesda is celebrating Fallout Day for the very first time with a dedicated broadcast event, and it seems focused on Fallout 76
- Fallout season 2 begins filming in November, as one actor says their character has "got some things up her sleeve" in the new season
- The Penguin episode 5 recap and Easter eggs: Gotham catches on fire
- October 20
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- After 2 years of legal drama, this indie RPG is back on sale and even has a new Pokemon-like sequel on the way
- This 'Balatro but Solitaire' deckbuilding roguelike isn't officially in Steam Next Fest, but its demo is just as dangerously gripping
- This single-player MMO with fake players is one of the weirdest games I've seen in Steam Next Fest, and its demo is over 12 hours long
- Silent Hill 2 remakers Bloober Team say they're done making "shitty" games after turning over a new leaf with the horror classic
- First trailer for James Gunn's ultra-violent Creature Commandos TV show introduces an unordinary team of DC superheroes and a fan-favorite Batman villain
- October 19
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- Balatro creator recommends trying 2 "special games" this Steam Next Fest – and both are roguelikes on par with the poker-themed hit
- This gorgeous lightweight strategy game with over 15,000 glowing Steam reviews is finally, officially out
- New Kraven the Hunter footage sees Aaron-Taylor Johnson escape from prison and crunch some bones in R-rated Marvel movie
- Behind closed doors Karate Kid: Legends trailer unites Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan, and introduces the new Karate Kid
- Doom Eternal and Vampire Survivors collide in this Steam Next Fest FPS roguelike that had me playing "one more game" all night
- After Helldivers 2's latest Major Order win, it looks like Super Earth is setting up its own Terminid version of Jurassic Park
- Dune and Ghibli collide in Steam Next Fest's strangest strategy game, where you drive steampunk war-crabs across an interplanetary Austro-Hungarian empire
- This open-world sandbox Steam Next Fest gem is basically GTA but you're a cop, and it totally rips
- October 18
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- DC reveals its full slate of January 2025 comics and covers featuring Batman, Superman, Batman, the Justice League, and more
- Spider-Man 2 DLC hopes dashed as Insomniac confirms "we have no additional story content planned" while touting the new PC port
- Diablo 4's new Spiritborn class is already dealing quadrillions of damage thanks to bugs that can make it "literally 100,000 times stronger than any other class"
- One of the coolest roguelikes of 2021 is finally getting a sequel, and based on its Steam Next Fest demo it might be one of the coolest roguelikes of 2025
- The Strangers Chapter 2 teaser trailer reveals a whole new direction for the horror series but keeps its spirit alive with a repeat of its most classic line
- Elder Scrolls 6 won't return to "fiddly stat sheets" due to Baldur's Gate 3's success, says Skyrim lead: "Through Skyrim, Bethesda has wanted to have the game get out of its own way"
- One of the top survival games in Steam Next Fest is an open-world adventure through never-ending winter with your dog buddy and up to 3 of your less useful friends
- The Ys X: Nordics Steam Next Fest demo is the best JRPG comfort food I've had all year, a meaty 8 hours long, and also available on PS5 and Switch
- 'Classic Pokemon JRPGs but battles are volleyball' is as fun as it sounds, and I knew what was up as soon as this Steam Next Fest demo asked if I watch sports anime
- Lord of the Rings screenwriter confirms Hunt for Gollum won't be two movies and reveals "most of the ideas" for future films involve Gandalf
- Crunchyroll confirms January release date for Dr. Stone season 4, bolstering 2025's stellar anime lineup
- For Fable's 20th anniversary, one fan remade the classic Xbox RPG as a Game Boy Color game that you can play right now for free
- Rick and Morty drops a surprise early look at season 8 as it lines up a double season renewal
- Helldivers 2's Jump Pack buff immediately backfires: they're so good now that the Automatons stole some for themselves, and the "Jet Brigade" is kicking our butts
- New Haikyu anime movie is coming to Netflix a lot sooner than you'd think in some territories
- This sealed copy of the 1989 Prince of Persia was $5 at Sears and got donated to Goodwill - now it's sold for $2,000 on eBay
- Cobra Kai season 6 adds three new cast members, including a Mortal Kombat star
- My Terraria love pushed me to try this co-op survival game, and its fabulous Steam Next Fest demo is also an RPG in disguise
- Phantom Blade Zero dev says it's not just Black Myth: Wukong, the Chinese console boom has been building: "We've wanted to make these kinds of games from the beginning"
- Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Avengers head up a new line of Astonishing Infinity Comics from Marvel Unlimited
- Robert Pattinson has a surprise inspiration for his voice in new movie Mickey 17: Ren and Stimpy
- Dragons Dogma 2's performance dips were caused by the most relatable problem yet: NPCs who think too hard
- As Metaphor: ReFantazio threatens to eat up 100 hours of my free time, upcoming JRPG love letter Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes pity: "You can expect 30+ hours of main game"
- The Sims 4 Life and Death introduces the ability to have babies with the Grim Reaper, and trap your sims on this mortal coil through the miracle of reincarnation
- Marvel star Frank Grillo fights off werewolves with a machine gun in first trailer for bloody action horror
- Agatha All Along episode 6 might have just cleared up one of WandaVision’s big mysteries
- New trailer for Batman anime movie is a wild ride with the Yakuza raining from the sky, Japan appearing over Gotham, and the Justice League
- After last week's Pokemon leaks canceled Typhlosion, a new translation of the alleged lore paints the fire-type in a much more favorable light
- Owner of Nintendo Switch 2 forum forced to deny conspiracy theory that they're a secret Nintendo of America marketing plant
- The Yakuza devs aren't trying to hide their plan to get out of the way of Monster Hunter Wilds: "We wanted you to be able to play the game that comes after it with peace of mind"
- The Penguin's explosive mid-season trailer sees Sofia seek revenge and Oz play dirty
- Tom Holland was one of the first to know about Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom casting but says it was a "tough secret to sit on" because he has a "reputation for ruining things"
- I'm seriously trying to stop myself grabbing the LG OLED C3 at its lowest ever price
- FBC: Firebreak, the Control FPS, is only the second game to ever launch into Xbox Game Pass and PS Plus on day one
- Denis Villeneuve will make Dune 3 sooner than he expected, with Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Florence Pugh, and Anya Taylor-Joy returning
- Solo dev behind hit city builder says to put "experimentation and art over profit" in response to ex-PlayStation CEO saying there's a "collapse of creativity" in games
- League of Legends fans baffled as Riot lays off more devs - including the $500 Ahri skin designer - only to unveil a gacha-fueled $250 Arcane skin 24 hours later
- Spider-Man 4’s script "lit a fire" in Tom Holland, as he teases a movie "worthy of the fans" and shares hopes for Miles Morales joining the MCU
- Oh, boy: Amazon's God of War series is starting over – two years after it was first announced
- After running a Super Mario Bros archive for 12 years, one dedicated historian was about to quit forever if it wasn’t for the help of 4,000 fans: "You have saved my life"
- New Dune: Prophecy trailer teases chaos, destruction, and spice as the release date is finally confirmed
- I made beer with monks and got called "your Maltiness" in this remarkably chill ale-brewing sim, and you can too with its free Steam Next Fest demo
- October 17
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- Stranger Things' Eddie Munson returns for a "heartfelt send-off" that tells the origin of the Hellfire Club in a new Dungeons & Dragons crossover comic
- With a straight face, Arma 4 dev says it's "coming 2027," and suddenly the GTA 6 wait doesn't seem so bad anymore
- I need every Enter the Gungeon fan to try the slick Steam Next Fest demo for this bullet hell roguelike "designed for those who crave a difficult game"
- After backlash and a Steam review bomb, Tekken 8 dev gives out $5 to cover controversial DLC and says it will do things differently next time
- 5 years later, we finally know the 2K studio from the Dead Space and Call of Duty lead is making a roguelike hero shooter that's an "evolution on the genre"
- After loving Black Myth: Wukong, I'm pushing this new Chinese Soulslike action-RPG way up my wishlist following a bloody trailer that doubles the Sekiro vibes
- Riding high on the Silent Hill 2 remake, Bloober Team reveals an original survival horror IP that looks like a fun sci-fi nightmare
- Avengers #19 puts the team face-to-face with Doctor Doom for the first time since he became Sorcerer Supreme
- Subnautica 2, the third Subnautica game, hits early access in 2025 and finally brings multiplayer to the survival game series
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii shows off Assassin's Creed Black Flag-style naval combat and brings release date forward a week
- Remedy's Control-based multiplayer shooter looks like a Left 4 Dead horde FPS with Helldivers 2's anti-live service vibes: "This isn't about logging in every day for some loot"
- Mark Millar's "James Bond meets John Wick" action adventure series King of Spies gets a lavish new Library Edition from Dark Horse
- Wolverine becomes the Maker's mind-controlled Winter Soldier in the latest Ultimate Universe ongoing title
- 6 months after Yoko Taro thanked fans for archiving his work on Nier and Drakengard, Square Enix is shutting them down
- My problem with the climbing in Uncharted is basically solved in this cute Steam Next Fest platformer designed by a Disney ride engineer
- Marvel's future Luke Cage, with all the powers of Iron Fist, Hulk, and Sentry, is traveling to the present day Marvel Universe in his own Power Man title
- James Gunn has the perfect response to criticisms of the new Krypto in his upcoming Superman movie
- Just when I think I've hit the peak of Steam Next Fest, I find this cozy cafe management sim with cute critters and strong Animal Crossing energy which is also hitting Switch
- As Astarion, Karlach, and Shadowheart get Funko Pops, actor behind Baldur's Gate 3's least-popular companion asks "No hot green girlfriend?"
- Marvel debuts best look yet at Charlie Cox's new Daredevil suit and Fantastic Four's HERBIE
- This viral death game might actually take over the world once it adds multiplayer this Halloween
- Doctor Doom will become emperor of the Marvel Universe in Marvel's "biggest and most shocking event ever"
- Former PlayStation boss says games are "seeing a collapse in creativity" as publishers spend more time asking "what's your monetization scheme?"
- Pokemon finally revives an ultra-rare Shiny that's gone virtually unseen for 14 years, but only the most dedicated Scarlet and Violet players can get it
- Invincible season 3 casting rumors are heating up thanks to this old Jeffrey Dean Morgan Instagram post
- Ex-PlayStation head says the AA middle ground between GTA and indies is "gone," and relying on blockbusters to "get us through" is "a death sentence"
- Tim Schafer wanted to "compete" with classic D&D CRPGs like Icewind Dale by cranking up the fantasy in Brutal Legend: "Let's really exaggerate it"
- After Barbie, Mattel plucks a childhood toy from shelves for a bizarre live-action movie – because apparently it's "a treasure trove of storytelling possibilities"
- Mark Duplass is back as serial killer Peachfuzz in the chilling first trailer for horror spin-off series The Creep Tapes
- Millie Bobby Brown and The Russos' upcoming Netflix film gets new trailer full of robots, futuristic gadgets, and Marvel stars
- Hades 2 update brings back a fan-favorite "crutch" and even shades you for using it
- Tom Hardy's evasive answer to a Spider-Man and Venom crossover question has everyone suspicious
- Agatha All Along fans have a new theory about Billy that shakes up what those "black heart" references could mean
- Absolute Superman writer Jason Aaron's new dark fantasy comic Bug Wars is "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids meets Game of Thrones"
- An adaptation of Stephen King's hugely popular fantasy book has been rescued by A24 as a TV show
- My favorite sports game of all time has a Steam Next Fest sequel with 8-player co-op, more brutal deaths, and a new extreme way to speedrun
- Persona and Metaphor: ReFantazio director "tries not to be that conscious" of feedback, as "looking at reactions isn’t good for your mental health"
- NBA 2K25 is taking notes from Fortnite, becoming a strange new digital platform by offering the only way to play the new game from acclaimed Lego racing devs
- The Boys season 5 adds Stranger Things star to cast in a role that was hinted at in season 4
- Agatha All Along may have just confirmed Teen’s identity, but there’s an even bigger mystery brewing with the sigil
- Agatha All Along just name-dropped the Avengers, and it proves the MCU's cover-up excuses are still as bad as ever
- I destroyed wizard school with an infinite cloning spell in this pixel-perfect parody of the PS1 Harry Potter games that's my Steam Next Fest highlight
- One of the hottest Steam Next Fest demos is a Nier-infused action RPG with plenty of soulslike energy
- Retro fans need to see this record-low price on 8BitDo's NES themed keyboard
- New Metaphor: ReFantazio patch aims to resolve game-breaking progression bugs in the JRPG, with a PC release coming "at a later date"
- Will there be a Smile 3? Here's what could be next for the horror movie series
- Smile 2 ending explained: who dies, what happens to Skye Riley, and is this the end of the curse?
- Smile 2 post-credits explained: does the horror sequel have a post-credits scene?
- "People ask about Brutal Legend 2 all the time and I'm torn about that" - Tim Schafer says he'd expand on the 15-year-old game's RTS bits for a potential sequel
- Elden Ring patch 1.16 fixes a number of Shadow of the Erdtree bugs, but good luck figuring out what they are
- Marvel fans are convinced Wanda is returning to the MCU thanks to one line in Agatha All Along episode 6
- Agatha All Along episode 6's surprise cameo is a welcome back for an unexpected WandaVision character
- Let Me Solo Her has finally been freed from Elden Ring jail after getting a 180-day ban for using a Fortnite dance mod
- October 16
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- If Blizzard turned Diablo 4 into a full-on Vampire Survivors roguelike, it might be as cool as this Norse Steam Next Fest gem
- The new Moon Knight #1 explained - his new villain, new mission, and the return of Mr. Knight
- Watchmen Chapter 2 trailer sees Rorschach behind bars
- After 13 years, this canceled pirate God of War-like is making a comeback and its Steam Next Fest demo is the right kind of bad to satisfy my PS3 nostalgia
- I see what the creator of Balatro meant: this pachinko roguelike's Steam Next Fest demo is dangerously hard to put down
- A battle royale hero shooter MOBA from ex-League of Legends devs is smashing the Steam Next Fest charts
- "You're all making fun of it and yet you buy it": Skyrim and Oblivion vet on Bethesda's horse armor, and how the dev "didn’t know what the hell it was doing at the time"
- Doctor Doom is about to do one of the most evil things he's ever done and steal Christmas in Marvel's 2024 holiday one-shot
- Bungie teases Diablo-style "treasure goblins" and "dynamic enemy spawning" for new Destiny 2 missions you can solo in 10 minutes if you don't want the MMO experience
- Hitman dev hopes its new James Bond game Project 007 will spawn "a big trilogy" building on the studio's "20-plus years of training for the agent fantasy"
- Oh no, I didn't think I needed to replace my Nintendo 64 but Analogue 3D's promise of 4K output with the "soul of the CRT" is giving me serious hardware lust
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev tempts fate and taunts players as the RPG's latest patch fixes yet another easy-gold trade exploit: "Any more of these up your sleeves?"
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles creator Kevin Eastman and the TMNT: The Last Ronin II creative team on the new issue: "This is the kind of nail-biter we all want"
- Hades 2 surprises fans with its first big expansion: the roguelike's Olympic Update is out now with more gods, a new jetpack weapon, and half-naked Dionysus
- Save $766 on this spooky Pathfinder Halloween bundle
- This multiplayer life sim is like Animal Crossing in outer space with Mario Party minigames, and it's just what I needed this Steam Next Fest
- Steam Next Fest serves up a brutal FPS with no live service nonsense, just pure 1v1 arena shooting with Call of Duty's sweaty slides
- MMO Pokemon rival Temtem has a new roguelike in Steam Next Fest, and without even trying the co-op it's already one of the best demos I've played
- Microsoft yoinks $1 Xbox Game Pass trial ahead of new Call of Duty, just like it did before Starfield came out
- Two of Studio Ghibli's best movies are getting re-released on the big screen
- BioWare veterans' new AAA RPG Exodus reveals Matthew McConaughey's character and new bad guys way scarier than Mass Effect's Reapers
- Atlus brings the hammer down on Metaphor: ReFantazio spoilers with a new rule prohibiting video thumbnails and titles from ruining the JRPG's story
- Promising turn-based RPG Clair Obscur confirms spring launch, but more importantly mocap legend Andy Serkis plus Final Fantasy and Baldur's Gate 3 actors
- Evil Dead star explains how the next two movies will fit into the horror franchise's timeline: "It's not George Lucas intricate"
- This nuke-parrying open-world soulslike got a new update just in time for Steam Next Fest, and now players are pulling off moves its solo dev "can't even begin to understand"
- Finders//Keepers is a "reverse Indiana Jones" comic about a student who must return stolen artifacts to stop a deadly curse
- Stalker 2 studio "dedicated" to making post-launch fixes if needed because they "don't want this game to be forgotten in a week"
- Feathers McGraw is up to no good (again) in new trailer for Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
- The White Lotus and Scream stars cast in Monster season 3, following the Netflix show's controversial second season
- New Stephen King adaptation Salem's Lot beats The Penguin and Agatha All Along to become second-most streamed title in the US, despite low Rotten Tomatoes score
- Overwatch 2's brilliant new roguelike-inspired mode lets you mod abilities, create builds, and cry over the cut campaign's potential
- Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says "I am aware of the $22,000 sex doll" of his character: "I have some thoughts"
- New Rings of Power season 2 behind-the-scenes video shows Celebrimbor star’s "heartbreaking" final goodbye
- Ahead of debuting in The Witcher, Liam Hemsworth has another Netflix project dominating streaming – but it's been pretty panned
- One of Wolverine's best suits in Deadpool and Wolverine cost $100,000 to make despite being on screen for all of 10 seconds
- Until Dawn gets 2025 release date, adding it to next year's killer horror lineup
- Metaphor: ReFantazio looks surprisingly good on the Nintendo 3DS, even if it's the crunchiest form of the JRPG you could possibly play
- Indie dev behind one of the best roguelikes of all time releases its source code to the public "in the pursuit of sharing knowledge"
- Phantom Blade Zero producer reckons cultural differences are "an advantage, not a disadvantage" since games like Black Myth: Wukong are "fresh"
- Another major character is rumored to have been recast for The Witcher season 4 and fans have mixed reactions
- Riot announces "an update on how we're evolving" League of Legends, which is of course another layoff announcement
- October 15
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- I don't say this lightly, but this Silent Hill-inspired Steam Next Fest survival horror is giving Bloober Team's remake a serious run for its money
- Marvel's latest New Champion is Hulkette, a teen Hulk whose origin is a "big surprise"
- This Steam Next Fest RPG about lonely road trips gets my recommendation after I chugged 2 liters of soda to survive an all nighter with an N64 game in my trunk
- It's no Lies of P, but the most popular Soulslike in Steam Next Fest is just the anime action RPG I was hoping it would be – and it's coming to PS5 too
- Horror game devs team up to create the most ridiculous spiritual successor to PS1 Harry Potter games, and Steam Next Fest players are loving it
- Smile 2 director says the movie's viral marketing strategy is "blurring the lines between reality and fiction" to help "build credibility" for the horror sequel
- Smile 2 director talks the horror sequel's brutal, one-shot, "really surprising" opening scene: "It wasn't going to feel like anything we did in the first film"
- RuneScape dev reveals Unreal Engine 5 survival game set in the MMO’s universe, accidentally blocks players from signing up due to Steam shenanigans
- Skyrim lead admits "Bethesda games could have a higher degree of polish", but some jank "could be forgiven" because of how much you can do in the RPGs
- James Gunn shares first look at Superman's dog Krypto in the 2025 movie and reveals the real-life inspiration behind changing the script to include it
- Combine Sekiro and Risk of Rain 2 and you're pretty close to this unhinged open-world game's Steam Next Fest demo, which I was only kind of into until I parried the ground
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard ditches controversial Denuvo DRM because "we trust you"
- Former Nintendo employees say the photo of Mario teasing the Switch was "very controversial" in the company: "It got memed into oblivion, and people were kind of upset"
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles relaunch enlists artist Juan Ferreyra as the TMNT are reunited in New York
- Amazon confirms Invincible season 3 release date and addresses the fanbase's biggest complaint
- This co-op farm sim is a whimsical blend of games like Minecraft and Stardew Valley, and I'm obsessed after playing the Steam Next Fest demo
- Legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu is "not retiring" after his next JRPG Fantasian Neo Dimension, but taking more time for "the music I want to make"
- Marvel has changed a key detail about Wiccan, but you probably didn't realize
- Longlegs director's new horror movie based on a Stephen King story gets a sinister first trailer
- Fantastic Four composer praises the new Marvel movie's practical sets: "There wasn't a green screen to be found"
- 30 years after its release, Samuel L. Jackson celebrates Pulp Fiction's anniversary by recreating one of the movie's most iconic scenes
- Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft showrunner on how her WWE fandom feeds into the new Netflix series: "If I can get Lara to do a Stunner, that'll be the highlight of my life"
- Metaphor: ReFantazio rewards JRPG players with buffs and bonuses for using the toilet and remembering to shower
- 25-year-old FPS Delta Force is back with an extraction shooter revival that's already tearing up the Steam Next Fest charts
- One of Apple’s best original shows Slow Horses gets renewed for a sixth season
- One of Metaphor: ReFantazio's best upgrades over Persona isn't just a time saver, it's becoming my go-to get-rich-quick scheme
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard achievements are here, and fans are avoiding their story spoilers like the plague
- After Uzumaki's production issues, a second controversy has erupted over another big anime downgrade – and it's being compared to a PowerPoint slide
- The single-player breakout of Steam Next Fest so far is an open-world crime-fighting game that looks like the exact opposite of GTA
- Smile 2 director teases that more sequels could be on the horizon, as "the sky's the limit" for the horror movie series
- James Wan confirms The Conjuring 4 has started filming with behind-the-scenes pic of the horror series' final movie: "Gonna miss everyone"
- Smile 2 star Naomi Scott reveals the lengths she went to for the horror sequel: "You want to trick your body into a place of anxiety"
- Smile 2 repeats the original movie’s spooky marketing tactics by having random actors show up in public places
- Assassin's Creed actor and metroidvania dev slams out-of-touch execs chasing the live-service dragon: "Too much money is being spent on games people do not want"
- Netflix’s Castlevania spin-off is now on "hiatus" after season 2, as director says they don’t know if it’s getting renewed
- Captain America #16 will be writer J. Michael Straczynski's final issue on the series
- Kingdom Hearts forced Naughty Dog to go "oh sh*t" while making Jak 2, because Square Enix's character models were so much more detailed that the platformer devs had to change course
- James Gunn perfectly explains why not every announced DCU project is guaranteed to be made: "We’ll never put a half-assed script in production"
- After conflicting reports, Terrifier creator has final say on the horror franchise's future movies
- The Steam Next Fest demo for ex-Skyrim dev's huge action game is a stealth archer’s dream - but trust me, skip the tutorial
- The lawsuit against Microsoft's acquisition of Activision, filed by a group of everyday gamers, has reportedly been settled and permanently dismissed
- This 4K webcam tracks your movements in a good way, and it's $120 off right now
- The voice cast for Secret Level has been reportedly leaked, and it features Keanu Reeves, Star Wars and The Last of Us stars
- Venom 3 villain will appear in future Marvel projects says director: "One movie could never do justice to Knull"
- One of Apple's most underrated shows is fighting to complete its four-season plan, but its creator says it "comes down to viewership"
- You can play like it's 1993 with the new Warhammer Kill Team starter set, but I'm unsure if you should
- Joker: Folie à Deux is coming to digital already, less than a month after its premiere
- Blizzard is nixing an uber-popular Diablo 4 Spiritborn build as it's actually just broken, not powerful: "This is one of those instances"
- This Steam Next Fest's second-biggest demo so far is like Valorant meets Paper Mario, complete with anime girls
- Deadpool and Wolverine's scrapped Gambit post-credits scene was changed because it felt too much like "traditional Marvel"
- Helldivers 2's massive 63-day overhaul patch is here, bringing an end to a rebalance of "over 70 weapons and Stratagems" while also making certain Terminids explode, for some reason
- October 14
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- Archie Andrews must become superhero Mr. Justice in order to save Riverdale in an "elegiac and reflective" new series
- MCU star Daniel Brühl has a cryptic answer about his involvement with upcoming Marvel movie Thunderbolts
- Just in time for Steam Next Fest, one of the storefront's most wishlisted FPS games gets a new demo, and it's already surpassed over 20,000 concurrent players
- Manor Lords publisher leads a strategy game renaissance, with the medieval city-builder racking up more than half of its 4.5 million yearly sales
- Agatha All Along's new trailer confirms we're getting WandaVision-era flashbacks
- New Dark Wizard theory suggests The Rings of Power season 2 introduced a major character without us noticing
- The Ballerina spin-off underwent reshoots with the John Wick director
- Garry's Mod creator "finally" gets one of the sandbox game's rarest achievements: to play on the same server as himself
- Director of stylish JRPGs Metaphor: ReFantazio and Persona 5 isn't excited by "highly polished games that look like they were designed by a bunch of people in a CEO boardroom"
- First trailer for Apple's hit sci-fi show Silo season 2 sees a revolution brewing
- Discord's creator is such a Final Fantasy 11 fan he essentially created the entire platform just to talk to friends while playing the MMO
- Rockstar veteran says Red Dead Redemption's PS3 version was "very hard and time-consuming" to make, but it was "easy to write for the 360"
- Agatha All Along’s Wiccan star breaks silence on their big reveal and says they took inspiration from Wanda in Avengers: Age of Ultron
- 4 years since it was first announced, Dirty Dancing 2 star explains why the sequel has been delayed
- Now You See Me 3 star Jesse Eisenberg teases "astounding" sequel, and reveals the cast pinched themselves every day due to how "miraculous" it was
- Get Out director Jordan Peele won't tease anything about his top-secret horror movie, but promises the silence will be worth it: "Trust me, it will pay off"
- Metaphor: ReFantazio is yet another 80+ hour JRPG from Atlus, but its director says the studio "didn't want to bore our players by keeping it the same the entire time"
- An unearthed Avengers: Endgame deleted scene showing Tony Stark after his death is blowing people's minds: "Is this real?"
- Terrifier 3 director says the movie's most hilarious moment that everyone is loving was actually improvised
- Enormous Pokemon leak reportedly includes the JRPG series' entire origin myth, alongside a short story that may have ruined Typhlosion forever
- "We were on fire with something to prove" - 15 years later, Naughty Dog veterans call Uncharted 2 the game that "completely changed our lives"
- Marvel star Don Cheadle doesn't know what's going on with Armor Wars either
- Ryan Reynolds has a birthday wish for Hugh Jackman – and it's a perfect Deadpool and Wolverine callback
- The Chao versions of Sonic the Hedeghog and Shadow will star in their own manga adventure – and it launches this Friday
- The Penguin episode 5 trailer teases war between Sofia Falcone and Oz Cobb in the aftermath of that bloody cliffhanger
- The massive Pokemon leak reportedly unveiled the source code for Pokemon Legends: Z-A and the unannounced Gen 10 games
- Ready or Not 2 is officially revealed, as star teases that she's "all in" on the horror movie sequel
- Dune director Denis Villeneuve wants to make a silent movie one day: "I love dialogue, but not always in cinema"
- As re-sales of the Baldur's Gate 3 Collector's Edition reach $3,000, one dev condemns scalpers: "It's designed to make someone happy, not rich"
- One Piece anime is taking an extended break "in order to achieve even higher quality" but there's a special treat to tide fans over until 2025
- A deep-cut DC comics villain makes a brief appearance in The Penguin episode 4’s Arkham scenes
- October 13
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- 400,000 people flood GTA 5's starting area in the first day of GTA Online's new Left 4 Dead-style zombie mode
- Steam Next Fest's most-popular early demo is an open-world PvP FPS about building badass giant walking mech-bases
- Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft's cliffhanger sets up a second season that takes Lara a step closer to being the "confident, witty woman from the '90s"
- Lord of the Rings initially inspired Metaphor: ReFantazio, before Atlus "threw out" all its fantasy research to preserve "the originality that defines us"
- Huge Game Freak leak reveals Pokemon source code, unused designs, Switch 2 details, and unannounced Gen 10 games
- Metaphor: ReFantazio's original fantasy world gave the Persona 3, 4, and 5 director "freedom" to work on ideas "that we couldn't put into other games"
- October 12
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- A dangerously good blend of Diablo 2 and Vampire Survivors just left early access after 17 months, instantly becoming one of 2024's highest-rated roguelikes
- New JRPG giant Metaphor: ReFantazio beats all Persona games to become Atlus' fastest-selling title and biggest Steam launch
- Dead Cells dev says early access is key to help them make good games, but "it depends on the game you want to do"
- Hayley Atwell says it would be an "absolute dream" to play Lara Croft again in Netflix's Tomb Raider series – or in a "different capacity"
- Metaphor: ReFantazio combines real-time and turn-based battles because its director wanted to integrate "the idea of manga and movie-style combat"
- October 11
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- After 25 years, we finally know why it's called Super Smash "Bros" – Nintendo icon Satoru Iwata wanted the fighters to be "friends who were settling a little disagreement"
- Steam Next Fest countdown – here's when Valve's October 2024 free demo event kicks off
- The Witcher is getting a new all-ages graphic novel aimed at connecting kids and parents with bedtime stories about Geralt and Ciri
- J. Michael Straczynski is writing a series of one-shots starring weirdly random pairings of Marvel characters like Doctor Doom & Rocket Raccoon, Aunt May & Agatha Harkness, and more
- Deadpool and Wolverine just broke another massive record, this time beating out John Wick for a top spot
- Former Blizzard president says the "gaming downturn" is "a little bit overstated" and companies just wanted to "cut back" after the pandemic
- Valve reminds Steam users they don't actually own a darn thing they buy, GOG pounces and says its games "cannot be taken away from you" thanks to offline installers
- Skyrim lead designer says Bethesda can't just switch engines because the current one is "perfectly tuned" to make the studio's RPGs
- RuneScape creator delays his new MMO to November 6 at the last minute: "Apparently there is some sort of election thingy on the 5th - who knew?!"
- The classic Dead Space comics are being reprinted after being out of print for more than a decade
- It's not GTA 6, but an "unexpectedly moving" version of Hamlet set entirely in Grand Theft Auto Online is coming to cinemas
- Andrew Garfield says Tobey Maguire is his favorite Spider-Man, though he thinks what Tom Holland has done with the role is "incredible"
- Witcher and Cyberpunk CEO addresses bogus claim CDPR is in "dire trouble" because it's too "woke" - "Seems we live in times where anyone can record complete nonsense"
- Pokemon math goes to the moon as Scarlet and Violet gives us a new max damage record over 2 billion, and it only takes 164 turns and 100 totally-not-dead Pokemon
- Dead Cells developers felt "pressure" to match the roguelike's high bar in their next game: "It's awful and very, very cool at the same time"
- Forget the Nintendo Alarmo, my bedside clock is an adorable Zelda handheld that's half the price
- Ncuti Gatwa gives an exciting filming update on his third season of Doctor Who
- The Legend of Lara Croft showrunner says Crystal Dynamics would "gently hint" at what could be included in the Netflix series because "they might be thinking about it" for the new Tomb Raider game
- Kieron Gillen returns to Darth Vader and Doctor Aphra in his first new Star Wars comic in 5 years
- We've got our best look yet at the Venom frog, and it will haunt your nightmares
- The Tomb Raider series has sold 100 million copies and is now getting three more remasters - including Lara Croft's worst-reviewed game
- Does Terrifier 3 have a post-credits scene?
- Datamined Destiny 2 files namedrop Marathon pre-orders, spurring speculation that Bungie's FPS reboot could rear its head soon
- God of War: Ragnarok, Cyberpunk 2077, and Apex Legends are gloriously ugly in new art from devs joining "Blocktober" trend showing how games come together
- In a week of big cancelations, Netflix's has just renewed two of its most popular shows
- Fallout star’s serial killer drama lands a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score as it’s called an "addictive" watch
- The director behind one of anime's saddest movies is here to break my heart again with this 2025 release
- Helldivers 2's 60-day recovery plan is now a 63-day recovery plan, as Arrowhead delays its big patch at the last minute because "we didn't look at the calendar"
- The First Descendant publisher says game developers need to be "focusing on user feedback," not looking at old data, if they want to make great games
- Creator of Netflix's Kaos says they're "gutted" over its shock cancellation, as they urge fans to keep talking about the show
- Severance creators have mapped out the show’s endgame, and it likely includes several more seasons
- There's new hope for Concord - PlayStation's FPS is still getting updated on Steam 6 weeks after going offline
- Deadpool and Wolverine's new deleted scene fills in a big plot hole and answers a question I've had for months about X-23's fate
- A second Disco Elysium spiritual successor has been announced from a different "breakaway group" of devs who worked on the original RPG
- A spiritual successor to Disco Elysium that's "continuing a legacy" of RPGs like Baldur's Gate, Fallout, and Icewind Dale is in the works from Bungie, Rockstar, and ZA/UM veterans
- October 10
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- Dragon Ball Sparking Zero isn't even fully out yet and fans are finding additional DLC online
- Peter Parker and Miles Morales are locked in a bloodthirsty brawl in Spider-Man: Reign 2 #4
- Horror comic Ice Cream Man returns in 2025 with an anthology written by Grant Morrison, Patton Oswalt, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Matt Fraction, Geoff Johns, and many more
- Henry Cavill to star in live-action Voltron movie from Red Notice director
- Arkane lead says Marvel's Blade will "explore uncharted dimensions of our art" building on Dishonored, Prey, Deathloop, and yes, even Redfall
- After 7 years of Dead Cells updates, devs share hopes for their new roguelike to get just as much support: "If we can, why not? If we are lucky enough"
- George R.R. Martin "can't wait to see more" of the new Game of Thrones spin-off show after visiting the set and seeing a "rough cut"
- Black Myth: Wukong reportedly cost around $43 million to make – and this $60 action RPG has now sold over 20 million copies across PC and PS5
- Amazon boss doesn't want "too much time" between James Bond movies but is "not concerned" about the wait for the next 007 film
- 4 years after it began, the hit Oshi no Ko manga will end in just 4 chapters
- Nintendo planned to open mysterious Switch playtest sign-ups for 5 days, says "registration for this test is now full" after 7 minutes
- Amazon will continue making Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as long as a "large amount of people" keep watching
- Cities: Skylines 2 publisher says players "have higher expectations" today and are "less accepting" that games will "fix things over time"
- Captain America, Thor, Hulk, and the Fantastic Four all feature in a cameo-filled preview of Sentinels #2
- For the first time in 20 years, Football Manager is missing its fall release date - the devs "simply cannot compromise" by "rushing to release it in November"
- 24 years later, a new remaster for one of the most forgettable Star Wars games is finally giving Mace Windu the right lightsaber
- Sebastian Stan tells MCU critics "don't just go out there and s*** on something without offering something better"
- Where to buy the Nintendo Alarmo
- Ex-Blizzard president reportedly wanted to reboot Overwatch and reduce Diablo 4 microtransactions, but left before either of those things happened
- This first-time Witcher 3 player found a new way to die that I've never seen in 250 hours: getting kicked in the head by Geralt's own horse in the very first fight
- This stunning Steampunk-inspired pixel art RPG is smashing through its Kickstarter goals by nearly $100k, and there's already a demo to give it a go
- BioWare veteran defends Dragon Age: The Veilguard's character creator since "it's just about roleplaying. You know, the thing that's in the name of the genre?"
- Agatha All Along fans are convinced episode 6 will be a flashback to Teen’s origins – and it might take us back to Westview
- Marvel fans have come up with a wild theory that could soften the blow of Agatha All Along episode 5: "Glad to see we're all going straight to delusion"
- Marvel star Josh Brolin has a brilliant reason behind why he's playing a priest in Knives Out 3 Wake Up Dead Man: "It’s like you manifest this sh*t"
- The silliest indie game on my radar has horny houses, buildings that date each other, and now Minecraft parkour-inspired platforming
- Baldur's Gate 3 fan mods all of the RPG's companions into Tekken 8, effectively respeccing them all into the Monk class
- After eight years and 158 episodes, the My Hero Academia anime is ending in 2025
- Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke catches sight of the RPG community's most lewd creation yet, a "$20,000 life-sized Astarion sex doll"
- Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom might be hiding a tribute to two Nintendo legends, and Reggie Fils-Aime is "incredibly touched"
- Tomb Raider star Hayley Atwell says the Netflix series aims to create a "more complicated" Lara Croft that isn't "always driven by the big, bold brushstrokes of heroism"
- Joker: Folie a Deux almost filmed a full trailer for its "awful" TV movie – featuring a returning actor from 2019's Joker
- Agatha All Along's long-rumored character reveal features multiple Scarlet Witch Easter eggs to magic away any doubt about [SPOILER]'s identity
- Overwatch 2 is reportedly going the Call of Duty route with an upcoming mobile version
- Agatha All Along episode 5 is hiding another major clue in plain sight about the real identity of Aubrey Plaza's Marvel witch Rio Vidal
- Marathon, the troubled new FPS from the Destiny developers, gets a potential shot in the arm as external playtests reportedly get underway
- Terrifier 3 director Damien Leone and cast say the franchise wouldn't exist without the fans: "They're the biggest part of this"
- Agatha All Along episode 5 finally revealed Teen's true identity – and Marvel fans can't get enough of it
- Wider PS5 Pro pre-orders are now live: here's where to buy the next console
- It's been 24 hours and Silent Hill 2 Remake mods are already letting you play as protagonists from GTA San Andreas, Nier Automata, and Resident Evil 4 Remake
- October 9
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- Nintendo is recruiting players to test a mystery "new feature" for Switch Online, and nobody has any clue what it is
- The spirit of Crash Bandicoot lives on in "the most ruthless indie linear 3D platformer ever made," which has already killed me 71 times in a single level
- The new Ultimate Hawkeye channels the Silver Age with an arsenal of trick arrows and a beef with Captain America
- Fan-favorite Apple TV Plus thriller Slow Horses gets surprise season 5 trailer
- New A Quiet Place survival horror game borrows Alien: Isolation's scariest feature to use your own voice against you
- James Gunn teases mysterious new character in Peacemaker season 2 – and fans think they've figured out who it is
- HBO's new Green Lantern show casts star of Netflix action movie Rebel Ridge as DC's John Stewart
- Bethesda lead addresses Starfield Shattered Space criticism: "Nobody, and I mean nobody, at Bethesda is patting themselves on the back while ignoring our players"
- Devolver responds to Hotline Miami 2's sudden deletion from Australian PS5s with a single, perfect screenshot
- Melissa Barrera's friend had a very unusual reaction to her new horror movie Your Monster, and it involves a NSFW Disney fantasy
- Late Night with the Devil's David Dastmalchian heads up a starry writing team for a new series based on Kolchak, the paranormal investigator who inspired The X-Files
- Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is already the biggest Steam launch in the franchise's history and it's not even technically out yet
- Silent Hill 2 Remake modders explore the horror game's every corner by removing its signature fog and checking the backseat
- After 17 years, the mystery of GTA 4's missing ferries has been solved by one of the original developers: "They were more trouble than they were worth"
- The Legend of Zelda vibes coming off this new action RPG "inspired by 90s classics" are incredible - and it's already almost doubled its $36,000 Kickstarter goal
- Smile 2 first reactions call the horror sequel "bloody", "violent", and "bigger than the first"
- Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman line up their post-Deadpool and Wolverine "reunion" – and everyone is making the same joke
- Terrifier 3 may be the most brutal and bloody movie of the year but Art the Clown star and director do not regret including children in it
- "The sad truth is, the future is uncertain": Indie dev asks community for help after supporting its dinosaur Stardew Valley on a "shoestring budget"
- Nintendo has unveiled a new product, and it's not the Switch 2, but a $100 alarm clock that'll play a victory fanfare when you get up
- As Steam's cozy new city builder Tiny Glade celebrates 500,000 players, devs explain why they "don't really want to have a roadmap"
- New look at Gladiator 2 shows the real-life Colosseum Ridley Scott had built for the sequel – featuring thousands of extras
- Steve McQueen’s latest movie starring Saoirse Ronan features his proudest moment ever on set
- Sackboy finally reaches the end of the road as Sony announces LittleBigPlanet 3 and all its DLC are being delisted
- RuneScape creator's new cozy MMO shouts "No microtransactions!" from the rooftops as it charts November launch after a closed beta coming this month
- StarCraft 2 veteran would want a sequel go open world, or just "try something radically new"
- Ahead of its release on Shudder, new one-take horror movie unveils its first full trailer
- Dawn of the Dead was a key inspiration for new horror show Generation Z, despite it not containing any zombies
- Christopher Nolan's new movie is so shrouded in secrecy that the only plot rumor was five words long and debunked in three minutes
- Agatha All Along's Mephisto namedrop might've been more important than we thought: "That is larger than me and this show"
- Doctor Who is releasing its Christmas special early and for free in cinemas for select fans
- New Terrifier 3 footage features a deep-cut Art the Clown Easter egg that calls back to the second horror movie
- Dragon Ball Daima release schedule – when is episode 20 on Netflix?
- Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero publisher says just "Lower difficulty and retry" to fighting fans getting demolished by Great Ape Vegeta, but players say that's "absolutely NOT" an option
- Dragon Age writer says you can play The Veilguard without playing the series' past RPGs: "Anything that would require a great memory is brought up with an on-ramp"
- After being crowned the most-watched Netflix series of 2023, The Night Agent is back with a season 2 release window and season 3 announcement
- This Joker: Folie à Deux theory might change how you watch the whole movie
- Days after Velma's new Halloween special, one show artist drops a bombshell: "There will not be a season 3"
- Legend of Zelda superfan posts side-by-side comparison of A Link to the Past and Echoes of Wisdom, showing how similar the two Nintendo games are
- This adorable sandbox RPG looks like Skyrim combined with Stardew Valley, which might be helped by the fact that Skyrim's lead designer is working on it
- Hugo Weaving breaks down that shocking Slow Horses season 4 finale reveal and explains why he didn't approach his character as a villain
- Nosferatu director teases Bill Skarsgård’s "scary, smelly" Count Orlok, says he goes in the "complete opposite direction" of Twilight’s Edward Cullen
- Slow Horses season 4 star Hugo Weaving teases his potential return as villain Frank Harkness in future seasons of the show
- Lord of the Rings star Hugo Weaving says he's "had enough" of Middle-earth and has "absolutely no desires" to reprise the role of Elrond as new movies are announced
- Christopher Nolan's next movie is reportedly due out in 2026, and Matt Damon is in talks to star
- Balatro creator kicks off supervillain arc, celebrates humanity losing 11,000 years of time to the roguelike across all platforms
- October 8
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- Sega is making a Shinobi movie from the Extraction director
- RGG boss says he wanted to make a Yakuza game called Like a Dragon: Tuna where Kiryu is a fisherman, and now I'm genuinely bummed "it never came to fruition"
- One of my favorite series is super cheap on Steam right now: $31 gets you 2 Metroidvanias, 2 XCOM-like strategy games, a city builder, and a clever deckbuilding RPG
- A year after WWE superstar Bray Wyatt's untimely death, his "final creation" is finally getting the spotlight it deserves in WWE 2K24
- 33 years later, Marvel is bringing back one of my favorite comics of all time for an All-New Venom variant cover
- There's a Gladiator 2 popcorn bucket and we are very much entertained
- The director of the John Wick movies is producing an action movie pitched as Clue meets John Wick
- Dune star Timothee Chalamet meets Joan Baez and gets booed out of the folk scene in new trailer for Bob Dylan biopic
- Paradox exec admits canceled life sim Life By You wasn't "actually clearly better than Sims 4 in any of its main areas"
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard has the best difficulty settings in the series and it's not close – like a "prevent death" option or an irreversible "nightmare" mode
- Jeff Goldblum on the fate of his Jurassic World character and whether Dominion deserved all the hate: "It’s tough to make a good movie"
- After 7 years and multiple publishers, Rob Liefeld is returning to write and draw Youngblood for Image Comics
- 24 years ago, Blizzard reportedly shot down a pitch to make its own version of Steam by turning Battle.net into "a digital store for a variety of PC games"
- This Fire Emblem-inspired open-world tactical RPG fulfills a dream I never knew I had: directing my own "sandbox shonen" cinematic anime mech battles
- Paradox boss says Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is doing well, it's "a bit more of an action RPG" and "people who have seen it talk about Dishonored"
- Would-be The Sims competitor Life By You was canceled because publisher Paradox realized "everything will be worse if we keep going, so we have to stop"
- Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero's Great Ape Vegeta is wrecking players so hard even Bandai Namco is memeing about it: "This monke got hands"
- Valheim takes notes from cozy games like Stardew Valley with an update that adds cooking and farming skills, as well as new feasts
- An airline has apologized for playing an R-rated Dakota Johnson movie with "brief graphic nudity" to passengers at 30,000 feet
- This Metal Gear Solid 2 stan recreated his favorite aircraft from the action game in The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, and it's awesome
- As Uzumaki episode 2 gets compared to a PS2 game, one of the horror anime's producers addresses the animation downgrade: "We were screwed over"
- Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero's difficulty is "f***ing absurd," fighting game fans say as CPU opponents pull off long combos, and one story mode fight is "some BS"
- Helldivers 2 Major Order threatens players with a delay: you took Claorell and the bots didn't like that, so defend it for 3 days or your space station gets pushed back
- A new horror sequel with a divisive Rotten Tomatoes score has climbed to the top spot on Netflix
- Peter Dinklage says an unusual call from Marvel co-star Josh Brolin convinced him to star in a new action comedy from Palm Springs director: "We should play twin brothers"
- New Netflix action movie in the works from Bad Boys team Will Smith and Michael Bay
- Terrifier director Damien Leone already knows how the franchise will end but says it might take two more movies to finish it completely
- After 14 years, the original Red Dead Redemption finally hits PC this month, with Undead Nightmare in two
- Paddington 3 star Hugh Bonneville addresses Mary Brown's recasting: "She just slotted in gloriously"
- Red Dead Redemption 2 modder makes every NPC permanently drunk, even in cutscenes, and it's absolute chaos
- Halloween favorite Over the Garden Wall confirms anniversary gift, and it's an Aardman short that the creator says is "beautiful"
- Netflix cancels fantasy series Kaos just 40 days after its release
- Fallout star Ella Purnell "cannot wait" for season 2, but she doesn't know when filming is going to start yet
- Art the Clown star says he wants to play the Joker after Terrifier: "Hopefully someone like James Gunn gives me the opportunity to tackle that"
- Echoes of Wisdom fans have figured out how to cheese the new Legend of Zelda game: drowning every enemy in a single cube of water
- Helldivers 2 players are one step closer to getting their massive Democracy Space Station, but the constant Automaton battles are proving to be a bit much: "I need a break from bots"
- Ridley Scott has already written 8 pages of the Gladiator 3 script: "I’ve got the beginning of a very good footprint"
- Christopher Nolan reportedly vetoed a key moment in 2019's Joker, so it was held back for the Folie à Deux sequel
- Sarah Michelle Gellar rules out I Know What You Did Last Summer return with a perfect response: "I am dead"
- Metaphor: ReFantazio borrows Persona's iconic calendar system, but devs say players don't need to "worry about missing out on activities due to time constraints"
- October 7
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- For fantasy JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio, Persona director gave himself a crash course featuring classics like The Lord of the Rings, but "if we tried to copy that it would just be a copy"
- After 5 years, cult classic horror RPG series Pathologic is back with a "rebirth" sequel featuring time travel
- Fallout vet says his heavy metal open-world RPG is "5x the size of Skyrim," riffs on Todd Howard: "See that mountain there? You can go there"
- Persona director and JRPG veteran says the amazing menus in Metaphor: ReFantazio were "really annoying" to make, just as Persona 5's were "impossible to read at first"
- Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield had an awkward moment when they didn't hear 'cut' during a sex scene for R-rated romance We Live In Time
- Destiny 2 player locks himself in one of the MMO's hardest raids for over 400 hours until he finally solos it without dying: "I need to call my mom right now"
- Elden Ring fan spends 500 hours making a low-poly version of FromSoftware's biggest map ever because "I thought it would be cool" – and it definitely is
- The Penguin FX artist says Colin Farrell's look was inspired by iconic '80s comedy Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Joseph Quinn got advice from Fantastic Four co-star Pedro Pascal on joining Marvel – without realizing they were about to appear in the MCU together
- Silent Hill veteran shares then deletes frustrations with fans taking their remake woes out on him: "I really wish they were not children but adults"
- As Tekken 8's microtransactions face renewed criticism after $5 stage DLC, one dev explains just how expensive it is to make a fighting game in 2024
- One of the year's biggest thriller anime shows gets a third season – and two big cast arrivals
- Advances in CGI means Gladiator 2 can achieve what was too risky in the 2000 original, which is why we're getting 12 baboons, a "real rhino", and a "massive water battle with sharks"
- Epic is already planning Unreal Engine 6, combining "high-end" dev tools with Fortnite's simpler creative mode editor and enabling "persistent universe" games
- Netflix's latest anime has been scoring rave reviews, including a lengthy seal of approval from Hideo Kojima
- Comics legend Alan Moore's new novel has only just been published – but we already know the title of its sequel
- Alien: Isolation devs heard fans' "distress calls loud and clear," confirms a sequel to the survival horror game is in "early development" after 10 years
- Ridley Scott had the perfect no-nonsense advice for Paul Mescal on the set of Gladiator 2
- Metaphor: ReFantazio Metacritic score confirms a new certified JRPG banger, as the Persona devs' latest effort ties with Astro Bot as one of the best games of the year
- In the wake of another DC box office disaster, Deadpool creator says he "could not be more psyched" about James Gunn’s Superman
- Ewan McGregor reveals his dream idea for Obi-Wan Kenobi season 2, and it involves the Clone Wars
- Two new playable Genshin Impact characters announced for update 5.2: Chasca and Ororon
- Silent Hill 2's remake has an achievement for the faint of heart who don't want to enter the creepy town at all, even though there's no secret Far Cry 4-style ending
- Prepare to be entertained by these exclusive images from Gladiator 2
- Joker Folie a Deux breaks an unwanted record during its disappointing opening weekend
- OG Silent Hill 2 director is "very happy" about the remake: "Whether it's good or bad doesn't affect the original"
- Amid whispers of Ubisoft potentially being bought out, the Assassin's Creed developer says it reviews "strategic options" regularly
- First trailer for live-action Amazon adaptation of this hit anime is here – and it matches the original's wild energy
- Halo Studios head says "the consumption habits of gamers have changed - the expectations of how fast their content is available"
- Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 gets a promising update from star who says the sequel will be "bigger" and "scarier" than the first
- Joker: Folie a Deux director breaks down its controversial ending, and it might make you appreciate the twist a little more
- Despite developing a "persistent universe" in Fortnite, Disney seemingly isn't comfortable with all its characters using guns in a battle royale full of guns
- Newly-rebranded Halo Studios kicks off the iconic FPS series' next era with multiple games in development: "Chapter 1 - Bungie. Chapter 2 - 343 Industries"
- Silent Hill 2 Remake release time - here's exactly when you get to play the remake of one of the greatest horror games of all time
- October 6
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- For its 20th anniversary, Halo 2's infamous E3 2003 demo that never made it into the final game is coming to Halo: MCC
- Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero release time for early access – the countdown to the new fighting game is on
- Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred release time – the countdown to the new DLC is on
- 14 years later, Hideo Kojima reveals why Peace Walker wasn't called Metal Gear Solid 5: "It faced strong opposition from overseas marketing"
- One major Rings of Power actor got a perfect, morbid farewell gift after their character's death
- The Forged Helldivers 2 mode in Halo Infinite is exactly what both games need, and it's coming to the FPS this month
- Persona studio realized it "didn't need to be so strict" about medieval conventions when making its new fantasy JRPG
- 35 years after the iconic puzzler's release, someone has finally beat NES Tetris' 255 levels and achieved 'Rebirth'
- October 5
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- Warhammer 40K space hobbits are armed and dangerous with sausages: Every Warhammer Day reveal
- The only perfect video game is finally a JRPG thanks to a new indie channeling a 31-year-old cult classic SNES Tetris game that never left Japan
- After voicing Sora in 12 RPGs, Kingdom Hearts actor says maybe "the best thing to do" is let the long-running series end: "Even if you have something that you love"
- The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom players discover the game's most "busted" (and twisted) strategy is to literally drown foes
- "Bethesda Game Studio's Big 3" RPGs are now Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and Starfield, studio veteran says: "Starfield is simply developing its own unique fanbase"
- Baldur's Gate 3 players are restoring cut content from the RPG's Early Access period, and this expanded Nautiloid is just the beginning
- Persona director explains why Metaphor: ReFantazio's cast awakens their powers in the most brutal way: "The big theme of this game is anxiety"
- Balatro creator reacts to award nomination by telling you to vote for another indie: "A truly deserving gem"
- October 4
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- Halo Infinite third-person is officially happening after years of fan requests, 343 reveals with a surreal gameplay video
- Metal Gear Solid actor David Hayter teases return as Big Boss, sends fandom spiraling: "Metal Gear Solid 6 100% confirmed"
- Peter Parker and Mary Jane shippers are feasting with this new Thanksgiving variant cover for Ultimate Spider-Man #11
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard has gone gold – BioWare's long-awaited return to fantasy RPGs is ready for launch this month
- After a 118-day grind, a blindfolded sub-20 minute Super Mario 64 speedrun is here and the community's in disbelief: "This seemed completely impossible a few years ago"
- X-Men #7 starts to answer questions about the team's headquarters and mission that have lingered since the relaunch
- Helldivers 2 devs move to prevent another "Accountgate" as Steam asks players to accept PlayStation EULA following new law on digital games: "No practical change"
- Sonic the Hedgehog boss says the PS5 Pro justifies its $700 price and could allow for newer games "that can express the speed of Sonic”
- Space Marine 2 boss says games aren't dying, some AAA devs just "over-scope" them to death: "What business are we in where you fail if you sell less than 5 million?"
- Helldivers 2's Democracy Space Station just passed a big Major Order, but we need to steal – I mean "liberate" a mining base from the Automatons next
- As Star Wars Outlaws and Assassin's Creed Shadows add to a 54% Ubisoft stock drop, Tencent and the Guillemot brothers reportedly consider a full buyout
- The final issue of Total Film magazine features Gladiator II on the cover
- Hugh Grant's horror movie follows Longlegs and Terrifier's lead as its unveils inventive new marketing campaign
- Ghost of Yotei is reportedly driving curious newbies and lapsed fans back to Ghost of Tsushima in droves
- Palworld escapes indefinite delay, launches on PS5 in Japan today despite the survival game's ongoing legal battle with Nintendo
- I'm begging more devs to do this: indie gives out the prototype of its great Soulslike – "Do not tell me if you run into a bug I will hunt you down I do not care"
- Astro Bot and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth lead the shortlist for the Golden Joystick Awards 2024, nudging out Helldivers 2 and Balatro for the most nominations
- The Rings of Power fans think one of the show's most overlooked characters has a huge destiny ahead of him
- Ahsoka season 2 will reportedly go into production next year
- After 24 years of developing MMOs, inZOI's director "got sick of it" and wanted to try his hand at making a worthy Sims 4 rival
- Captain America star's new sci-fi thriller movie gets first trailer and it looks like A Quiet Place meets War of the Worlds
- Metaphor: ReFantazio players could complete an entire Persona with the 60 hours some of them have spent in the JRPG's demo
- One Piece anime marks its 25th anniversary with a special episode that pays tribute to our favorite Straw Hats
- Persona's modern high school setting is "sort of limited," but going medieval fantasy with Metaphor: ReFantazio gave the JRPG's devs "a lot of freedom to explore"
- After just 8 days, Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom players have already found a way to play as Link instead of the titular princess
- New Dragon Ball series surprises fans with sudden Netflix release and it's coming sooner than you’d think
- "There's no such thing, really, as canon in Tolkien": A Lord of the Rings expert explains why *that* major reveal in The Rings of Power doesn't break Middle-earth canon
- Early Dragon Ball Sparking Zero stream and hours of spoilers get spirit bombed out of existence by Bandai Namco
- The Rings of Power showrunners dismiss the Dark Wizard Saruman theory: "It would be highly, highly, highly improbable"
- Will there be a Joker 3 or a Lady Gaga Harley Quinn film after Folie a Deux? Here's what the director has to say
- Does Joker: Folie a Deux have a post-credits scene?
- Joker: Folie à Deux ending explained: who dies, what happens to Joker, Harley, and more
- October 3
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- Blizzard says Diablo 4 will be PS5 Pro enhanced: "Very proud of our hardworking team to make this happen"
- Silent Hill 2 Remake dev says it infused the iconic horror game's puzzles with "fresh ideas" and added "new challenges that tie into the game's story"
- Iconic speedrunning organization Games Done Quick quickly pulls Hurricane Helene disaster relief event together – and it's happening next week
- One of the MCU's creepiest villains is back in comics, and she's turning humans into mutants
- Ubisoft starts its Star Wars Outlaws redemption tour with a patch addressing every single annoyance I had: a massive stealth revamp, speeder bike fixes, and more
- Terraria creator returns to Old School RuneScape, and within weeks catches the MMO dev's attention, fishes at a concert, and plots a unicorn ritual
- Stephen King delivers a glowing verdict on upcoming James Wan-produced streaming horror series: "All killer, no filler"
- Andrew Garfield says he’s up for reprising his role as Spider-Man, as long as it continues to "bring joy"
- The one Destiny 2 weapon that I've wanted for more than 2 years is finally real and coming in Episode 2: Revenant next week
- Wolverine stands alone as the zombiote invasion reaches a small town in Venom War: Wolverine #2
- Ahead of its return as a monthly comic, the first series of Frank Miller's YA fantasy saga Pandora gets a lavish new hardback collection
- Deadlock's new matchmaking algorithm was recommended to Valve by AI: "I found it using ChatGPT"
- Netflix shares first look at new thriller series from Fool Me Once creator starring Slow Horses and Top Boy actors
- Monster Hunter Wilds won't add a 15th main weapon but the devs talk about one all the time – one problem is the 14 weapons we have are a hard act to follow
- The name that proved console emulation is "100% legal" is back for the third time as a '90s nostalgia mall that's also helping remaster retro cult classics
- The new co-op roguelike from the Dead Cells team launches this month, and there's an unmissable demo coming soon too
- Early access "comes at great risk," says solo city builder dev: "There are expectations, and you better deliver on the expectations"
- 10 years later, Under the Skin star reflects on the cult sci-fi movie: "I genuinely thought it would be out for two weeks in cinemas"
- Forget Spore 2, this stunning indie game inspired by Maxis' 2008 smash hit sim just got a free demo on Steam
- New Marvel fan theory could explain what happened to Nicholas Scratch in Agatha All Along – and Rio's true identity, too
- Helldivers 2's take on a galaxy-traveling Death Star really is a death trap: "risk of collapse," no toilets, and the beds are stolen from "very sick children"
- Terrifier 3 has an opening scene so sick and twisted that it caused nine people to walk out of the premiere
- Avatar: The Last Airbender gets a AAA action RPG with Space Marine 2 dev attached, the franchise's "biggest" game ever stars a new Avatar thousands of years ago
- This solo dev is creating a retro-style game for the PS1 that's inspired by a legendary mangaka and looks like a spooky spin on Animal Crossing
- Sebastian Stan says he "never would have thought" Bucky Barnes would end up where he is in Marvel's Thunderbolts
- After 11 years of GTA Online players brute forcing their way to GTA 5's starting area, Rockstar Games is opening the gates in a new zombie mode
- Final Fantasy creator says without the NES, "none of any of this would have been possible" – even if he "cheated on Nintendo and went to PlayStation" with FF7
- Metal Gear Solid 3 remake's new camera perspective made the stealth game too easy, so Konami is adjusting it separately from the classic view
- When is Joker: Folie à Deux on streaming? A look ahead to a potential Max release date
- The Rings of Power actor Charlie Vickers says it's not over between Sauron and Galadriel and hints the Lord of the Rings villain gets worse in future seasons: "There will always be more manipulation"
- How many episodes are in Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War season 3 on Disney Plus and Hulu?
- The Rings of Power's Stranger actor reveals exactly when he was told about the Gandalf reveal and whether he's reached out to Ian McKellen
- The Rings of Power season 2 finale's big death scene was originally much longer but was "condensed" on the day: "I think we all felt it's maybe going on a bit too long"
- Sauron actor Charlie Vickers reveals the unspoken meaning behind his final scene in The Rings of Power season 2
- The Boys star has seen some scripts for upcoming spin-off Vought Rising and says it's "insanely good"
- League of Legends and Valorant studio shoots down bogus rumor Tencent handed it $200 million to take on Valve's hero shooter: "There's a lot cooking in R&D, but nothing like Deadlock"
- EA teases The Sims 4's spooky new Life and Death expansion early, revealing a "spectral world" and something that sounds a whole lot like a Grim Reaper career
- World of Warcraft: The War Within added "training wheels" to buff new players, but accidentally went too far with a bug that's letting them constantly "cheat death"
- New Deadlock patch nerfs fan-favorite hero Ivy, but Valve says think of it as a buff: "More chance for you to pick the hero"
- Dragon Quest 3 creator's group skewers Elon Musk for sharing "mistranslated" video that made it seem "as if the speaker was expressing a negative opinion against a certain ideology"
- A Metal Gear Solid 1 remake can't be done in the same way Konami remade Metal Gear Solid Delta, producers say
- It took just 2 weeks for God of War: Ragnarok modders to remove over 1,500 lines of "pointless" and "patronizing" dialogue that also irked PS5 players on launch
- New Paddington 3 trailer charts the bear's wild journey in Peru and gives us our first look at Baby Paddington
- The Rings of Power season 2 might have just quietly introduced a major Lord of the Rings location in its final seconds
- The Rings of Power season 2: Who is Prince Durin's brother?
- The Rings of Power season 2, episode 8 recap, Easter eggs, and ending explained: Sauron and Galadriel go head to head in an epic finale
- After years of speculation, The Stranger's identity has finally been confirmed in The Rings of Power season 2 finale
- Narsil and its Lord of the Rings history, explained – Why Elendil's new sword in The Rings of Power season 2 is more important than you may realize
- The Dark Wizard might have just confirmed he's an iconic Lord of the Rings villain
- The Rings of Power season 2, episode 8 finally confirms the fate of Adar
- October 2
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- Starfield design lead says the space RPG is "in a lot of ways" the "hardest thing Bethesda has ever done" and also "the best game we've ever made"
- After becoming one of 2024's highest-rated Steam releases, this Resident Evil-inspired horror game is coming to Nintendo Switch and PS4 this month
- The characters from Star Wars animated show The Bad Batch return for their first ever solo comic
- After the official revival of a cult classic mech FPS spent a year getting skewered by "mostly negative" Steam reviews, fans have relaunched the old game themselves
- Former Rockstar tech lead says "I actually got a basic deathmatch going for GTA3" long before GTA Online made billions
- Marvel is transferring a character straight from the MCU into Marvel Comics - here's how
- Tekken boss says iconic ruffian Heihachi has so many "illegitimate children" he has trouble remembering them
- Space Marine 2 dev tells rude players to stop being mean, not just because it's common decency, but because "you don’t want to insult Henry Cavill, brother, no you don’t"
- Apple TV's neo-noir detective series starring Colin Farrell has been renewed for a second season
- Microsoft asks devs using "competitor's products" why they aren't making games for Xbox: "You probably have a great perspective we could learn from"
- A live-action Rugrats movie featuring CGI babies is in the works for reasons I struggle to comprehend
- The new Storm #1 explained - everything you need to know about her new mission, new headquarters, and possible new powers
- Baldur's Gate 3 boss says Larian's next RPG could launch in 2029, immediately says that's a joke: "They're big games and it takes time, so don't hold us to a date"
- You might be ready for Diablo 4 DLC, but not as ready as the streamer who hit level 100 and beat a Tier 100 Nightmare Dungeon using nothing but gear found at level 1
- The famous Blizzard graveyard of canceled games includes a sci-fi Diablo and a Warcraft take on Helldivers
- Helldivers 2 poll sees over 70% of 69,000 players complain about the game's "not great" and sometimes even "awful" ragdoll physics
- Final Fantasy 14 pauses the MMO's automatic housing demolition process for NA players following Hurricane Helene: "Our hearts go out to those who were affected"
- HBO's new superhero movie parody from Veep and Succession writers mirrors the MCU by getting mixed reviews
- Tony Hawk is producing a skateboarding anthology series that’s being compared to Netflix’s Monster – but not for the reasons you might think
- We asked Bethesda what it learned making Starfield and what it's carrying forward – the studio's design director said: "Fans really, really, really want Elder Scrolls 6"
- "Any Bethesda developer who has been around since the horse armor days knows that by this point, if we understand one thing, it’s DLC," studio design director says of Starfield Shattered Space
- Project Rene definitely isn't The Sims 5, and new leaks of EA's upcoming multiplayer sim prove as much
- First review for Persona devs' new JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio gives it the exact same score as Persona 5 Royal and confirms it's at least 80 hours long
- "Compromises were made": Space Marine 2 devs admit the shooter's story was limited by its 3-player co-op, and they "could have done way more"
- After 20 years stuck in Japan on the GBA, Nintendo revives legendary F-Zero game and adds it to Switch Online
- Singer Robbie Williams is played by a CGI monkey in first trailer for a bafflingly unique biopic with rave reviews
- Classic co-op platformer Nikoderiko: The Magical World blasts onto consoles next month
- Some of Cartoon Network’s best animated shows have suddenly been removed from Max
- Cyberpunk 2077 sequel director says CDPR may "never" win some fans back, but hopes future games like The Witcher 4 will: "That's unfortunately the price we have to pay"
- Announcing PLAY's final issue
- Thunderbolts star Lewis Pullman still doesn't yet know if his new MCU character will end up being a hero or a villain: "I would enjoy going in either direction"
- Speedrunners are already tearing the new Zelda game apart, beating Echoes of Wisdom in less than an hour with only 4 hearts
- Final Fantasy creator says FF6 is the "epitome of what I felt was my creative JRPG," and that replaying it after 20 years shaped the feeling he wants Fantasian to invoke
- Blue Lock season 2 release schedule: When is episode 13 on Crunchyroll?
- It looks like Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock could return, as producer teases "there is a future" for the BBC show
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel will have some "deep cut" characters, so where are my Lubba heads at?
- BioWare explains why Dragon Age: The Veilguard's visuals aren't a diversion from the RPG series' first 3 games, but rather a culmination of their unique art styles
- Get your detective caps on: Pokemon is teasing some sort of mystery Detective Pikachu announcement
- New trailer for Amazon's video game TV show proves it's going to be a love letter to some forgotten classics
- First trailer for Nicole Kidman's erotic thriller with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score looks like 50 Shades of Grey meets Fair Play
- As Persona devs dove into fantasy with Metaphor: ReFantazio, the JRPG's director got advice from Neon Genesis Evangelion's designer: "Don't let yourself be hemmed in"
- Salem’s Lot stars tease the scariest scene in the new horror movie and say it was just as creepy to shoot it
- 20 years since he debuted as Jigsaw, Tobin Bell will once again play John Kramer in Saw 11: "John Kramer is not done. There’s more to learn"
- The Sims 4 teases its spooky new Life and Death expansion, leaving us hopeful a Reaper career may finally be in the works
- New Deadpool and Wolverine behind-the-scenes video reveals unseen Gambit footage as Channing Tatum reveals how the Marvel movie made his childhood dream come true
- For a hot minute, the Blizzard game that morphed into StarCraft was a Star Wars RTS concept that went nowhere
- James Gunn unveils DC's most intriguing project yet: a Robin movie with a "mix of animation, puppetry, and CGI"
- Palworld shows no signs of stopping as the PUBG studio signs up to turn the survival game into a mobile game, even as a lawsuit with Nintendo rumbles on
- Steam's turn-based RPG sale slashes prices on some of my favorite games ever, and unfortunately for my wallet, great games I haven't played too
- October 1
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- Larian's 14 favorite Baldur's Gate 3 mods include everything true D&D sickos could want, like a level 20 cap, 16 character party limit, and excessively pretty dice
- After John Wick and Game of Thrones got their own indie games, indie publisher Devolver starts new label with a "new approach to licensed games"
- HBO's next big show starring The Boys and Ozark actors is here to mock how your favorite superhero movies are made
- Final Fantasy 16 went all-in on action, so modders are defying Square Enix by cranking up the RPG elements the series is known for
- Bungie says Destiny 2's new "medium-sized expansions" are about as big as Rise of Iron from the original Destiny, and the first is a Metroidvania inside the MMO
- Meet the new Ultimate Guardians of the Galaxy including Star-Lord, Captain Marvel, and more in Marvel's January 2025 Ultimate Universe advance solicitations
- Dragon Age veteran crunches the numbers on Concord's reported $400 million cost: "A project that is in trouble can get really big in an effort to get it over the finish line"
- Netflix shares first look at Chris Pratt and Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown in new Russo brothers movie
- Following yet more Zelda leaks, Switch emulator Ryujinx has disappeared after Nintendo reportedly "offered an agreement to stop working on the project"
- Moo Deng is welcome everywhere, especially Helldivers 2: "Protection Order for pygmy hippos implemented" by the one and only General Brasch
- Starfield's first story expansion, Shattered Space, launches to 42% positive "mixed" reviews on Steam
- Monster Hunter Wilds director casually reveals that you can bait a giant lightning wyvern to help you "round up whole herds" of weaker monsters
- Skyrim mirror mode mod flips the entire game, dealing psychic damage to the RPG's biggest fans: "Weirding out most anyone that plays has just been an unforeseen bonus"
- Amazon just put the first two seasons of one of its best animated fantasy shows on YouTube for free
- 16 years later, Spore returns with new developers and a promise to "honor" the god sim's history but no sequel or "major updates"
- Star Wars actor Giancarlo Esposito teases a "trilogy, or more" of Mandalorian movies
- "The one thing indies have that giant corporations can't deliver" is an "authentic relationship" with fans, says city builder dev: "You can't put every Star Wars Outlaws developer on Discord"
- MMO dev says it's the "perfect time to grab a shower" after tearing servers down over economy-destroying potion dupe found in Old School RuneScape
- Darkseid represents superhero fatigue and DC All in is the solution according to Absolute Batman writer Scott Snyder
- Hi-Fi Rush 2 was already 6 months into development when Xbox shut down Tango Gameworks
- The Rings of Power fans are hoping for another obscure Lord of the Rings character to appear: "The door is open for another mysterious fan-favorite"
- After going into debt to make it, Danganronpa lead worries his strategy RPG has too much content: "When games are too long, players can get put off, so we’re trying not to talk about it too much"
- Chilling new trailer for Netflix's latest crime thriller Woman of the Hour is based on a surprising true story
- Salem’s Lot cast explain how the movie stays true to Stephen King’s story despite its many plot changes
- Cyberpunk 2077 nearly got a quest that turned the dystopian RPG into fan-favorite indie Superhot, and now a modder has unwittingly stepped in to add the next best thing
- As No Man's Sky gears up to become a PS5 Pro-enhanced game, 1 dev teases that "as an engine programmer who has been through all the PS iterations," the "console absolutely rocks"
- Stephen King is excited about the new Salem's Lot movie – and he's showing his enthusiasm in the sweetest way
- Dan Da Dan release schedule – when is episode 12 on Netflix and Crunchyroll
- After months of waiting, we finally know when Demon Slayer's latest season is coming to Netflix
- Sony has a different approach to combatting 30th Anniversary PS5 Pro scalpers in Japan, imposing a strict set of purchase requirements that must be met
- Spoilers are currently the scariest thing about Silent Hill 2 Remake as early copies break street date and hours of gameplay surfaces online
- This new horror movie from Ocean’s Eleven director looks like In a Violent Nature meets Paranormal Activity
- Stephen Merchant joins The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 3, and he already knows you'll ask him for spoilers: "My lips are sealed"
- Netflix invites us back into the arena in new Squid Game season 2 trailer
- Blizzard's axed MMO Project Titan reportedly "cost the company $80 million," and was like Animal Crossing or The Sims meets Overwatch
- Helldivers 2 players on PC curse galactic game master Joel as PSN outage takes their PS5 brethren out of the Major Order fight for 8 hours: "Hold the line!"
- The Witcher's new Geralt proves his mettle by going full Henry Cavill and talking about his love for The Witcher 3: "It’s still to this day one of the best video games of all time"
- 8 hours later, PlayStation Network creeps back online after PS4 and PS5 players go without online multiplayer and more
- "The merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder" is coming to Nintendo Switch next month after earning 95% positive reviews on Steam
