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- May 19
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- The Witcher 4 director wants tough choices in RPGs, "even if the emotion in the end is sadness," because "we want players to feel rewarded"
- Hideo Kojima shares his verdict on Better Man: "I have no idea why Robbie Williams is portrayed as a chimpanzee the whole time, but I was in tears by the end"
- Lego shuts down Bionicle fan game 8 years into development, and the team thinks it knows why: "Our project was too easy to mistake for an official product"
- Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann was so impressed by this The Last of Us season 2 actor, he offered him a role in Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet "on the spot"
- Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Source of Inspiration walkthrough
- Square Enix considered shutting down the original Final Fantasy MMO years ago, but the devs received "a lot of support" to keep it going
- James Gunn confirms the impossibly straightforward DCU timeline (which is way less complicated than the MCU)
- A Jyn Erso cameo in the Andor season 2 finale would've been "disrespectful," says Tony Gilroy: "I'd rather honor Rogue and keep it straight"
- Tom Cruise says he "will never stop" acting: "I’m going to make movies into my 80s, actually... my 100s"
- Superman's wildest theory yet suggests the mystery trailer character is actually a secret Supergirl cameo
- The Andor season 2 finale features a deep-cut Easter egg referencing George Lucas' debut movie from 1971
- The Witcher 4 lead is "pretty confident" about the series' new saga: "We know how to handle it [...] we made it popular"
- Corsair just launched its first DIY keyboard but this barebone kit sure is pricey
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's controversial ending has been on my mind for a week, and I finally know why it's been bugging me so much
- Rick and Morty season 8 review: "Largely plays it too safe after years of crossing boundaries"
- Those behind the cursed Baldur's Gate 3 models offer "sincerest apologies" and promise to make it right
- Naughty Dog is keeping actors in the dark with Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet: "Is this Last of Us Part 3 that we’re doing?"
- How to get the KCD2 Phantom Horse
- Skyblivion modders fly out to Bethesda HQ to meet Todd Howard, mere weeks after getting free Oblivion Remastered keys and assurances that Bethesda has "no intention" of shutting their 13-year project
- Super Smash Bros. Melee pro loses $2k tournament final to a glitch after falling through the stage: "There's just no way"
- The Last of Us showrunner explains why the Joel flashbacks were all in episode 6 instead of spread out over season 2: "It was nice that the viewers could really miss this character"
- How to watch the Mission: Impossible movies in order
- From zombie tieflings to a 1-in-64 million ending, Baldur's Gate 3 sleuths are still digging deep to find the content Larian never wanted you to see
- Final Destination producer isn’t too shy to let fans know which movie is his least favorite: "I don’t think the fourth one is good at all"
- A new MSI Claw has arrived, and I'm hyped about the handheld's AMD chip
- The Running Man star Glen Powell says Tom Cruise was "so stoked" after watching the teaser for the Stephen King adaptation: "It's a memory I will never forget"
- Elden Ring: The Board Game - Realm of the Grafted King review: "A disappointing experience"
- 32 years after their last Doctor Who appearance, the actor behind a shock returning character says "fan power" brought her back
- "That was me at three in the morning trying to come up with something": Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's silliest moment came to its writer when she was very, very tired
- Hideo Kojima says Metal Gear spiritual successor Physint is still "another five or six years" away, and that he may finally direct a movie after
- M3GAN 2.0 may be veering into "action-comedy territory", but the sequel's director says "the horror DNA is absolutely still there"
- One blink and you'll miss it moment in the new Superman trailer has DC fans wondering if the James Gunn movie is linked to The Batman after all
- Fantastic Four leaks aren't stopping and they're getting even more bizarre – with Galactus being fully revealed in a Snapple promotion
- How long is the Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Brushes with Death DLC?
- Call of Duty CODE: Got Your Six event and rewards explained
- The Last of Us season 2 episode 6 quietly reveals the origin of Joel's watch with a heartbreaking extra detail
- M3GAN 2.0 will be "bigger and bolder" than the original, promises director: "To do a movie that was very small didn't feel like we would be listening to the audience"
- The Last of Us season 2, episode 6: The biggest changes between the HBO show and the PlayStation game
- A Marvel star makes a surprise cameo as a key role in Joel and Tommy's lives in The Last of Us season 2
- May 18
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- Take-Two's CEO is probably the world's only person to refuse the chance to play GTA 6 because "I'm not a gamer" - his role is to "get out of their way"
- God of War Kratos star Christopher Judge on watching Atreus' actor grow up alongside the boy: "He's a whole new mother****er"
- Cult RPG sequel Fantasy Life i's early access was due today, but delayed on Xbox at the last minute "due to an ongoing technical issue"
- Morale at Bungie reportedly at an all-time low as the iconic FPS dev investigates stolen assets in Marathon: "The vibes have never been worse"
- "I understand why players feel that strong French identity in the soundtrack," says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's composer, especially in that one Mime song: "It felt like both a duty and a guilty pleasure to include the accordion"
- Star Fox dev wasn't too upset that its 'canceled' sequel was delayed by 22 years, because he didn't want the SNES game to be compared to the "obviously far superior" PlayStation
- Netflix is losing a Star Trek show, but it "has little to do with lack of viewership or anything nefarious" – and the showrunners are hopeful it will find a second life elsewhere
- Borderlands 3 player beats every last bit of the FPS at the highest difficulty, without getting downed a single time: "The most tense run I've done"
- Red Hulk almost had a gun in Captain America: Brave New World
- Andor season 2 features a well-hidden Star Wars Easter egg with links to Ahsoka
- Captain America: Brave New World star Danny Ramirez has joined in on the Thunderbolts vs. Avengers battle
- May 17
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- Death Stranding 2 is Hideo Kojima's answer to James Cameron's Alien sequel: "We've introduced battles to give it this new dimension"
- REPO's "most powerful weapon" yet is a cannon that turns the cart into a tank, and this thing's friendly fire is absolutely going to destroy relationships
- Space Invaders creator says devs are "increasingly expected to listen to the sales team," but game creation "needs to be creatively led first"
- Death Stranding 2 feels a bit like Metal Gear Solid 5, Hideo Kojima says: "When you return to your bed on the Magellan, it's the same feeling as returning to the plant"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actors tripped up over French words a lot, but "if you don't like the way we say it, you can just go and play it with the amazing French cast"
- How Resident Evil 2 came to Nintendo 64 despite Capcom's doubts: "I recall having daily meetings and someone asked, 'Should we be worried?'"
- I spent my first few hours with the RTX 5060 playing Doom: The Dark Ages, and it feels pretty slick for under $300
- Take-Two boss makes lofty GTA 6 promises, despite sky-high hype: "Rockstar Games is trying to create the best thing anyone's ever seen in entertainment"
- BioShock director announces new writer for upcoming movie
- I became Oblivion Remastered's greatest gladiator by playing dirty - and bringing every single opponent down to my level
- Oblivion Remastered player spends 10,000 gold on a cocktail of spells and buffs, all to keep one troubled NPC alive through his murderous rampage
- Brie Larson might be a monstrous mom in the new J.J. Abrams-produced movie
- Doctor Who season 2, episode 6 spoiler review: 'The Interstellar Song Contest' is "a blast and sets the stage for a thrilling season finale"
- Tom Cruise and Ana de Armas are prepping to go down to the depths in a sci-fi horror
- A "gruesome throwback" horror movie about a lice outbreak in an '80s high school is in the works, and it sounds absolutely sickening
- Ralph Fiennes is President Snow in Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, and a former tribute had some choice words on the casting
- 25 years on, Final Destination remains one of the most important and ingenious horror franchises because it isn't afraid to face up to death
- May 16
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- 3 years later, these JRPGs from genre veterans are stuck in purgatory despite raising nearly $2.6 million in a combined Kickstarter campaign
- "The game has been thoroughly massacred": Infinity Nikki manages a reverse No Man's Sky, destroying a good game with a single update that might be the biggest mess of 2025 so far
- Bungie runs an hour-long Marathon "PlayMA" with zero gameplay footage while scrubbing the art for plagiarism as the game's art director offers a "personal apology" to the artist whose work was lifted
- Superman: The enigmatic villain The Hammer of Boravia explained
- Death Stranding and The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus doesn't think "anybody can understand" what's going on in Hideo Kojima's brain
- Longlegs star Maika Monroe replaces Margaret Qualley as the villain in gothic horror movie Victorian Psycho
- Wanda Maximoff meets God and takes on a gang of demonic bikers in Vision and Scarlet Witch #1
- Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining"
- REPO devs "always take a look at glitches that become popular or even mods" as a sign of what needs changing in the game, starting with a response to the "dearly missed" health glitch
- Another GTA 6 delay is unlikely as "historically" Rockstar is "very good" at meeting solid release dates like with Red Dead Redemption 2, says Take-Two boss
- New Rambo origin story movie from Sisu director and Black Adam writers takes the franchise to the Vietnam War, predating events of first film
- The Simpsons has officially found its new Milhouse voice actor
- OG God of War Kratos actor says all that rage was real: "At the time I was very angry. There were a lot of things going on that had me in a real nasty place"
- Rockstar's arguably "been putting out a new GTA release a couple of times a year," says Take-Two CEO who reckons GTA Online updates could count as "standalone" games
- As GTA 6 hype builds, GTA 5 is continuing to sell 5 million copies every 3 months, and Red Dead Redemption 2 is now the "best-selling title of the past 7 years in the US"
- Brutal survival game Kenshi developer says "too many games let the player succeed," which is "mind-numbingly boring"
- Superman enters the world of "existential superhero fantasy/horror" as Ice Cream Man creators expose him to The Kryptonite Spectrum
- Borderlands and GTA publisher has "great optimism" for the Nintendo Switch 2, even if "historically being a third-party in the Nintendo business has been a bit challenging"
- How many chapters in Doom The Dark Ages?
- Sony is prioritizing monthly active users over direct sales now, but the company's live-service games aren't doing too hot
- Nintendo finally clears up Switch 2 VRR confusion, confirming the console "supports VRR in handheld mode only"
- Andor creator Tony Gilroy has a hidden cameo during the Star Wars show's final episodes
- Norman Reedus would "for sure" star in A24’s Death Stranding movie: "I don't know what's happening with it"
- Stellar Blade devs seem as confused as everyone else as the action RPG's PC port gets region locked in over 100 countries despite no PSN requirements: "May I ask where you live?"
- American Psycho and Hereditary stars' new comedy is a perfect satire of documentary-making gone wrong
- Fortnite Outposts: Where to visit them during Galactic Battle
- Final Destination Bloodlines gives horror icon Tony Todd the goodbye he deserves with a perfect send-off for William Bludworth
- Fortnite adds a generative AI Darth Vader that uses James Earl Jones' voice, which immediately began swearing and talking about skibidi toilets, and not everyone is happy
- It took me 35 hours to discover Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's overworld map, but it only highlights my biggest problem with the game's dungeons
- I've put together a walking desk setup that's helping me hit my daily steps while playing Oblivion Remastered
- The iconic SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless headset shouldn't missed at its current record low price
- Every new trailer for Talk to Me directors’ supernatural horror follow-up is more disturbing than the last – and I will be seated
- How to play Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Brushes with Death DLC
- Should you buy an Xbox in 2025?
- Lost Skies is a skyfaring indie survival game that somehow manages to have better web-slinging than most Spider-Man games
- After being MIA from Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza trailers, Nintendo confirms Diddy Kong is still kicking with a new design his original creator says looks "better than ever"
- As Switch 2 fans worry about price increases, Nintendo of America president isn't too reassuring as he admits tariffs make for "a very fluid situation"
- Hideo Kojima once considered he might only "have 10 years" left to create new things, and he's given his assistant "a USB stick with all my ideas" as a kind of "will"
- Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is going to be the first ever movie to be completely shot on IMAX cameras
- Wednesday star Jenna Ortega's new movie is the lowest-rated 2025 release on Rotten Tomatoes – but it's still an improvement after it debuted to a 0% score
- As we wave goodbye to the original Switch, part of my heart will always belong to Animal Crossing: New Horizons' world-changing power of connection
- Lucasfilm uses AI to explore a "new Star Wars planet", but fans aren't convinced: "It's not impressive if a 14-year-old can do it on their smartphone"
- 45 years after the first film hit screens, Jason Voorhees has debuted a new look, but fans are not too keen on it
- Nintendo lifts the lid on the Switch 2 upgrades available for Super Mario Odyssey, Pokemon Scarlet & Violet, and Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
- Bungie's Marathon alpha includes designs lifted from an indie artist without pay: "Clearly my work was good enough to pillage for ideas"
- The 32 greatest documentaries ever made
- Fortnite was supposed to release on the App Store in the US last week, but Apple has "blocked" the battle royale's submission, and the iOS version "will be offline worldwide" until further notice
- Take-Two's CEO says GTA 5 is the "standard-bearer for our industry," but even he found the GTA 6 hype "pretty astonishing"
- Funko continues its tradition of Marvel spoilers by revealing one major under-wraps Fantastic Four character months ahead of time
- As fans fear $100 GTA 6 but Mafia is only $50, Take-Two CEO says "we've always had variable pricing," because if a game's a hit "the revenue is going to take care of itself"
- Assassin's Creed creator leaves studio she founded 4 years ago, without releasing the live-service shooter she was working on
- Oblivion Remastered player spends "6-7 hours" in the RPG "carefully and painfully" lining up countless books like dominoes in what might be the best Bethesda physics showcase yet
- May 15
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- Tom Cruise is working on "numerous other films," but confirms Top Gun: Maverick sequel is still happening
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii lead avoided ship-based games like Sea of Thieves and Assassin's Creed to make "something uniquely Yakuza-like"
- You're not imagining things: Andor season 2 snuck in an iconic Star Wars prequel location by filming in the same place as a deleted scene
- Despite Switch 2's controversial game-key cards, Nintendo president says "physical games are still a key part of our business"
- GTA 6 fans think a blurry screenshot proves the game will be the first in the series to feature children: "That's gotta be a kid FR"
- Netflix's Gears of War movie is reportedly moving ahead with The Fall Guy director and Dune screenwriter
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director is more than just a Devil May Cry fan: his YouTube channel is nothing but impressive DMC 5 challenge runs, which absolutely tracks
- Helldivers 2 CEO says "there would be no Helldivers" without PlayStation, but Arrowhead's next game will be "100% funded by ourselves"
- Sticking it to Nintendo, Palworld modder rebuilds the glider mechanic that Pocketpair cut to appease Mario's lawyers: "Patch 0.5.5? What? That didn't happen!"
- The Buffy reboot has its new slayer: Star Wars Skeleton Crew's Ryan Kiera Armstrong
- Saints Row 2 "glitch" that sets your entire body on fire is actually an intentional human torch mechanic that was removed from the game
- Nearly 50 years later, Marvel's new Bring on the Bad Guys aims to "stand side-by-side with Stan Lee's iconic volume" as a modern classic: "The best villains are the heroes of their own stories"
- Charlie Cox says Daredevil: Born Again season 2 includes a flashback to a 10-year-old scene from 2015: "Makes me feel pretty old"
- Switch 2 launch could be "significantly bigger" than the OG Switch's, but only if Nintendo can keep up: "When in history [...] did a launch for a popular new console go smoothly?"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (May 16 - 18)
- GTA 6 fan theories are now focusing on the smallest details, from a potential Manhunt tattoo to a background film made by GTA 5's Michael
- Cookie Clicker is coming to consoles, including Switch 2, and after 734 hours on PC it's about to ruin me
- The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy isn't quite Persona XCOM, but it's absolutely perfect for savoring via Steam Deck
- After 3 months and 1 viral Reddit post, No Man's Sky player who caught the attention of Hello Games' boss has "finally escaped" the planet he thought would end his permadeath run
- Stellar Blade devs confirm PS5 players will get the PC version's new boss fight and 25 extra costumes in a "free update" as the action-RPG escapes console exclusivity next month
- The First Berserker: Khazan missed sales targets, but Nexon says the Soulslike RPG was still a success because it got us to care about the 20-year-old action series it wants to globalize
- Tribe Nine, an action RPG with worldbuilding by Danganronpa's creator, announces end of service 3 months after launch, with an already announced story chapter now canceled
- Hideo Kojima wanted Death Stranding 2 to have "a clearer focus on combat," giving players a "range of approaches" including Metal Gear Solid-style stealth
- Robert Downey Jr. shares another Avengers: Doomsday behind the scenes picture – and he might be teasing a Galactus showdown
- Canceled Amazon MMO Blue Protocol was as dead as it gets, but it's now getting a gorgeous reboot this year – rideable capybara included
- Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra – Everything we know so far about the upcoming superhero game
- Ghost of Yotei devs know "how ignorant we were about Japanese culture," but as with Ghost of Tsushima they've had "cultural advisors" to help "deliver a respectful representation" of Japan
- God of War dev remembers getting "so angry" during play tests before admitting players were right: "Why can't you just get on this climb wall here?"
- Win a Blu-ray of Captain America: Brave New World
- Keychron M7 8K review: "excellent value with minimal sacrifices"
- The Last of Us, The Legend of Zelda, and D&D royalty will host the Future Games Show Summer Showcase next month
- Win a pair of Doctor Who books!
- Break!! review: "A worldbuilder's fever dream of familiar anime tropes, dusted over deep and malleable lore"
- Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy says a Princess Leia cameo was considered for season 2, but it didn't happen: "It became a distraction"
- Stranger Things star will play one of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’s best characters in upcoming prequel Sunrise on the Reaping
- After a year of living vicariously through translated screenshots, Persona 5 fans are going feral as The Phantom X finally has a global release date – but there are already gacha concerns
- I saw the dirty little secrets of Crimson Desert's open-world engine, and I'd kill to do it with games like Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom or Red Dead Redemption 2
- Nintendo Switch 2 is arguably "the most important product launch in video game history," analysts say, who reckon it will have sold 100 million in its first 5 years
- Grand Theft Auto 6 looks beautiful, but I'm convinced Jason and Lucia's love story will be the real secret sauce that makes it worth the 13-year wait
- This wired Xbox controller helped my FPS gameplay more than Scuf did, and it's a bargain at $69.99
- Tourists visiting Ghost of Yotei's namesake mountain in Japan airlifted out after getting stranded in the cold
- Hideo Kojima says 60% of Death Stranding playtesters thought it "was a terrible game," but he thinks that's "a good balance"
- Marvel fans prove that Thunderbolts* deserves a second watch as they point out hidden details you may have missed the first time around
- Pixart PAW 3395 vs PAW 3950 - which gaming mouse sensor is better (and does it even make a difference)
- DC changed my favorite detail from the first Superman trailer in new version, and I think I know why
- The latest gaming chair from Boulies looks like a Herman Miller killer, and that's before seeing its price
- Legendary Metal Gear Solid artist Yoji Shinkawa pens exclusive Death Stranding 2 art for the latest issue of Edge Magazine
- Scarlett Johansson thinks Avengers: Endgame should have been nominated for Best Picture: "It was an impossible movie that should not have worked"
- Marvel Rivals players slam a new item that skips losses in ranked, but NetEase tries to calm everyone down by promising it "will not be for sale"
- I regret to inform you that the unofficial Smash Bros. dating app has been shut down, a day before its open beta
- Dragon Quest 12 creator is still "putting lots of work" into the JRPG despite there being hardly any news for the last 4 years, promises it will "be great"
- New horror movie from The Monkey director Osgood Perkins is using the Longlegs marketing technique with a cryptic and terrifying teaser
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev points out that many of this decade's best RPGs so far, from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to Elden Ring, feature something in common: Shadowheart's actor
- Marvel enters the YouTube reacts game with Daredevil and Kingpin actors giving their thoughts on the Ironheart trailer: "That's gonna be great"
- The Kingdom Hearts 4 drought is over after 1,131 days as new screenshots of the RPG reveal another Keyblade, playable Mickey Mouse, and more
- No, your Steam info isn't being sold on the dark web: Valve confirms the Steam leak was just a bunch of old, harmless texts and "you do not need to change your passwords"
- May 14
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- Wednesday season 2 full cast reveal includes Christopher Lloyd's Professor Orloff, the new Lurch, and a total mystery character
- Diablo season 8 is still getting roasted, but Blizzard did manage to slip a major quality-of-life feature in that skipped the patch notes: more Ravens, less inventory clutter
- After 19 months and $162 worth of DLC, Mortal Kombat 1 is finally komplete and all included in a single $70 package, but fans are lamenting that "it's over" so soon
- 6 years before Batman: Arkham, Saints Row developer Volition kept working on a stealth Batman game even after its original idea got scrapped for being worse than GTA 3
- Watch in horror and awe as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director uses early builds of characters like a vtuber model in the only video on Sandfall's old YouTube channel
- King of the Hill is back with a first look that has everyone but Hank living in the 21st century
- Ms. Marvel and Bad Boys directors are adapting extreme sports video game Riders Republic into a feature-length movie
- Baldur's Gate 3 companions got official $50 D&D minis, and I am casting Vicious Mockery because what in the Nine Hells is this
- Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning review: "Wraps up this spy franchise in spectacular style with Tom Cruise in peak condition, even if its villain lacks terror"
- Daredevil's new bad guy is a Last of Us-style fungus monster who just might have a connection to one of Matt Murdock's creepiest villains
- Final Destination Bloodlines directors didn't know that it would be Tony Todd's final film but they "wanted him to be able to say goodbye"
- After several rough years, Ubisoft says "the launch of Assassin’s Creed Shadows was a defining moment" and its Tencent deal to basically make Ubisoft 2 is coming along
- Assassin's Creed Shadows "has clearly outperformed Assassin's Creed Odyssey" in sales and player count, Ubisoft says
- Get your exclusive first look at new WizKids miniatures that bring three iconic D&D monsters to your table
- Switch 2 specs have finally been confirmed after Nintendo spent months playing coy, and it's running a "miniaturised version" of a 30-series GPU
- After God of War's success, the overlords said "you're gonna make the second one and you're gonna do it in half the time and it's gonna be twice as long with more bosses and enemies"
- Danganronpa dev behind new tactical RPG with 100 endings says "there's still a need for unique games" that aren't quite indie or AAA – and if his "sells well," fans can expect an anime
- Death Stranding 2 isn't weird enough: Hideo Kojima has an idea for a game where your character forgets everything if you stop playing
- PS5 prices could rise again as Sony considers passing US tariff impacts on to players
- The next Game of Thrones spin-off A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms delayed to 2026
- Clark Kent and Lois Lane are at odds in new Superman trailer that features tons of city-shaking action and some super cameos
- A Pokemon prophecy has come to pass as former world champ gets his own distribution event, so you too can own "Wolfe's Incineroar"
- Andor creator says the season 2 finale's poignant twist is meant to end the series on a "hopeful note"
- How to get Monopoly Go reward codes and redeem them
- Final Destination Bloodlines directors reflect on the absolutely wild Zoom call that got them the gig: "Blood exploded all over the place"
- Andor creator explains why a major season 1 question was left unanswered in the Star Wars show: "I didn't know how I was going to resolve it"
- Max finally rebrands to HBO Max, and even the streaming service's announcement knows it's the right move: "The plot twist everyone's been waiting for"
- Marvel Rivals is bringing back its Season 0 Battle Pass, but only for two weeks, so get it before it's gone again
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 player proves you can finish the entire RPG without dodging or parrying anything, so don't worry about your reflexes: "This is not Elden Ring"
- Summer Game Fest schedule 2025: dates, times, and where to watch all of the upcoming showcases
- Mario Kart World isn't even out yet, but dedicated modders have already made some of the Switch 2 game's tracks playable in Mario Kart Wii
- Stalker: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition announced – it's out next week, promising visual "overhaul," expanded mod support, and a free upgrade for some
- Diego Luna was right – the Andor season 2 finale is already making us see Rogue One in a new light
- Marvel star Elizabeth Olsen joins cast of upcoming vampire movie, also starring Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac
- AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D review: “Still one of the best CPUs on the market when it comes to gaming"
- The Elder Scrolls has a role-playing problem: Oblivion and Skyrim's morality can't touch the nuance found in Fallout: New Vegas
- Thailand's record-breaking hit with an almost perfect Rotten Tomatoes score is getting an English-language remake
- Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon co-writer says they've got "very detailed outlines" for another four films, but isn't sure if they'll reach Netflix: "With some luck, we'll get to go back to that world"
- Robert Downey Jr. shares a photo from the Avengers: Doomsday set – and it might reveal a controversial detail about the Doctor Doom costume
- Riri Williams wants to become an MCU icon in first trailer for Marvel's Ironheart
- The 32 greatest sci-fi movies of the 2000s
- The MCU might be scaling back on TV, but "big Avengers names" can "still make appearances," confirms Marvel's TV head
- Control's co-op shooter spin-off FBC: Firebreak finally hooked me thanks to a fire-spewing teapot upgrade and an evil gnome
- Sandisk has finally revealed WD Black's first Gen 5 gaming SSD, and my PC is quivering in fear of this new "world's fastest" drive
- Not content with a massive update and a new Warbond, Helldivers 2 may be getting another patch next week as a deleted post points to an invasion of Super Earth itself
- New Baldur's Gate 3 update addresses Patch 8 bugs and reworks its subclasses, and Larian Studios isn't done with the RPG yet: "We're still fixing a few things"
- Doom: The Dark Ages FAQ warns that barrel-stuffing demons might not work as "expected," suggests you try stuffing bigger demons instead
- Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel accidentally drops official title, and it's a direct call back to one of the best Mario games
- Everything you need to know about Warhammer The Horus Heresy Third Edition and the new Saturnine box set
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 isn't coming to Nintendo Switch 2 yet, but its director reportedly seems interested in it
- Tom Cruise recalls doing a major Mission: Impossible stunt with a broken foot: "What's the point? You just keep going"
- "Can they get her a new f***ing jacket" Marvel fans joke, as Jessica Jones star shares behind the scenes look at her outfit before Daredevil: Born Again season 2 return
- Borderlands 4 has found a "perfect" platform with Switch 2, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says: "We don't feel like we're fighting the system"
- Switch 2 launch games: all the day-one releases for Nintendo's new console
- Sony has sold almost as many PS5s as it did PS4s in the same time frame, but expects its sales to worsen, and analysts reckon GTA 6's delay won't help
- After 4 months of waiting, Netflix unveils first action-packed trailer for part 2 of hit anime series Sakamoto Days
- Rosario Dawson pays tribute to Star Wars creator George Lucas from Ahsoka season 2 set: "I couldn't be more grateful"
- Andor season 2 finale has a musical callback to the Star Wars movies that's making fans emotional
- Will there be an Andor season 3? Creator Tony Gilroy puts the Star Wars series to bed once and for all: "What would it be?"
- As work on Kingdom Hearts 4 continues, Square Enix cancels Missing-Link: "It would be difficult for us to offer a service that players would find satisfactory over a long period of time"
- Final Destination Bloodlines is the highest-rated movie in the horror franchise with an almost-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- How does Andor season 2 set up Rogue One?
- The most upsetting part of the Andor season 2 finale isn't what you think it is
- One of the biggest surprises in the Andor season 2 finale gives Cassian a poignant way to live on – and makes Rogue One even more heartbreaking
- Andor season 2 ending explained: who dies in the Star Wars show, Rogue One connections, and more
- May 13
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- Krysten Ritter says "there is much more in store for Jessica Jones" as she officially joins the MCU in Daredevil: Born Again season 2
- Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Game is done getting new updates less than 2 years after launch
- Super Mario 64 hacker discovers in-game sound effect you can only hear in full if you leave the N64 classic running for 14 months straight
- Marvel's new Ironheart featurette offers up a first look at Tony Stark's posthumous protege Riri Williams in action along with the series villain The Hood
- Lawless Oblivion Remastered player earns 19 years in prison after stealing 2,900 items and murdering a measly 7 people: "Is the Oblivion crisis still going or...?"
- Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy reveals that the first episode of the Star Wars series had to be reshot because it was "really boring": "I was like, what the f**k is this?"
- Behold, the Monster Hunter Wilds effect: Capcom's old Monster Hunter games sold even better in the past year despite 10 million copies of Wilds eating the fandom's time and money
- Final Destination Bloodlines directors on coming up with innovative yet "relatable deaths" that haven't been done before: "You’re just constantly looking at everything like, 'Could this kill me?'"
- Get your exclusive first look at one of the new Daggerheart settings, which crosses Legend of Zelda with Princess Mononoke
- 8 years in, Nintendo president admits Switch 1 just isn't powerful enough for "new gameplay experiences" so it's time to move onto a "new standard" with Switch 2
- Helldivers 2 adds "500+ hours" of progression with its big "s**t your pants" update, and Arrowhead's CEO wants to know: "What is the pant situation like?"
- "Everyone is here": the three magic words that made Super Smash Bros. Ultimate one of Nintendo's greatest achievements
- Bob Odenkirk's vacation plans can't stop getting ruined in the first trailer for Nobody 2
- Final Destination Bloodlines directors talk making an "unusual" sequel focused on family and "heart": "It gave an extra weight to each death"
- Don't wait for Memorial Day, these gaming chair deals won't last that long
- Jackie Chan says CGI stunts are a "double edged sword" and actors are "missing" a "sense of reality"
- Oblivion Remastered subreddit bans "Sexy Flame Atronach" because moderators "cannot take any more" thirstposting: "Divines forgive us"
- Final Destination Bloodlines Review: "Meticulous murderous mayhem"
- Helldivers 2 weapon customization and attachments explained
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle reawakened a PS2-era phobia that made me quit survival horror in 2003, and I'm still recovering
- Lego Simpsons is finally back with a fan-pleasing new set, but why did it take 10 years?
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 star is already hoping that Marvel brings back his character "in some capacity": "Hopefully people like it"
- Nintendo president acknowledges "Switch 2 is priced relatively high" compared to the original, says bundles will help "get off to the same start we did with Nintendo Switch"
- New Palworld update Tides of Terraria is a survival game collab "full of new Pals, new islands, new things to do" coming this summer
- Mario Kart 64 could be the next N64 game in line for an unofficial PC port as the classic racer has been fully decompiled, following in the footsteps of Zelda and Star Fox
- SteelSeries just launched a brand new limited edition GameBuds design, that looks like it stepped straight out of the late 90s
- Avengers: Doomsday may have started filming 15 days ago, but one of its stars still hasn't seen a script: "I've had a preliminary introduction to the idea"
- John Wick spin-off Ballerina gets its final trailer and it's full of fighting, fire, and Keanu Reeves
- Five seconds of GTA 6 footage has convinced me that we'll be running businesses in Vice City – and I'm here for it
- Alien: Earth gets a premiere date – and it's just a few months away
- Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra gets delayed to "early 2026" as devs say the extra time will allow for "more polish" and "the best possible experience"
- Creed TV show spin-off in the works at Amazon with Sinners star Michael B. Jordan on board to produce
- Schedule 1 has disappeared from Steam in Australia but the dev behind the game assures players it isn't banned
- How to arrest suspects in The Precinct and bring them in
- The Lenovo Legion Go S just dropped to a new low price, and I'd actually grab it over the SteamOS version
- Check out the stunning Victorian-inspired world of Silver Palace, a brand new ARPG built in Unreal Engine 5
- Nobody could have seen it coming: Helldivers 2's Illuminate emerge from the black hole players stopped from crashing into Super Earth, with "larger, more powerful enemies within their fleet"
- The best D&D setting you've probably never heard of is back, and I can't bloody wait
- Jujutsu Kaisen’s upcoming Hidden Inventory / Premature Death movie will contain a brand new "mini anime" starring series leads
- Demon Slayer issues strong legal warning against leaking its Infinity Castle movie trailer included in the Mugen Train re-release
- Tom Cruise makes a surprising reflection on one of his first career failures: "It was the first time I realized that some people didn’t know how to make movies"
- Beat it, buster: Nicolas Cage is a Spidey gumshoe in first look at Spider-Noir – and Amazon is going all out and releasing every episode in black-and-white
- Final Destination Bloodlines played the cruellest trick on some unsuspecting movie fans
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 draft trailer from 5 years ago surfaces online, and it looks like a completely different RPG with no final visuals and "terrible robotic voices"
- Alexader Skarsgård's "brisk and propulsive" new Apple TV sci-fi comedy lands perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- GTA 4 "should be remastered" says veteran Rockstar dev as modern port rumors surface: "It's a great game"
- Leaked Fallout season 2 trailer teases New Vegas location, and fans are over the moon about it
- Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning's first reactions are as big and bold as Tom Cruise's stunts: "Kind of a beautiful chaotic mess"
- Suits L.A. was canceled because it "has not resonated" with fans: "It's just not really showing the potential to grow"
- MSI Claw 8 AI+ review: "a high-spec handheld second wind"
- Space Marine 2 devs give modders the "exact same editor we use internally," daring the community to build new cinematic campaigns and game modes
- Fallout TV show renewed for season 3 ahead of season 2's December premiere
- All Doom The Dark Ages artillery cannon locations
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- How to solve the rotating water room puzzle in Doom The Dark Ages
- What is the best Weapon in Doom The Dark Ages?
- Where to find all Wolf Statues in Doom The Dark Ages
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- The lore of Doom The Dark Ages explained
- Where to find Doom The Dark Ages Secret landing spots in chapter 5
- 10 Doom The Dark Ages tips and tricks to help you rip and tear
- All Doom The Dark Ages weapons and how to get them
- How long is Doom The Dark Ages?
- How to open the Doom The Dark Ages fire door in chapter 2
- May 12
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- A zillion years before Hogwarts Legacy, pre-Saints Row Volition was making a Baldur's Gate-style Harry Potter RPG and "it's never been seen by the public before"
- After 16 years dormant, Friday the 13th returns from the bottom of Crystal Lake with a new Jason mask marking the iconic horror series' 45th anniversary
- Leaked Stellar Blade PC trailer shows June 11 release date, every graphics setting I could ask for, a new boss fight, and 25 new costumes that look pretty good
- Nintendo Switch 2 adds a feature that I want on basically every device I own: battery charging settings that limit your juice and reduce "deterioration"
- Hayley Atwell "would love" to return as Captain Carter in Avengers Doomsday or Secret Wars: "She's very much an underserved character"
- I play all the big action RPGs every year, and the 'PS2 Golden Age' approach of Phantom Blade Zero is exactly what I want right now
- The Office spin-off gets release window and first look featuring a fan-favorite character from the original series
- It's "more of an action RPG," but Eric Barone says Haunted Chocolatier is still "a life sim" and "similar to Stardew Valley in many ways" but with more "dark and mysterious" vibes
- Star of Naughty Dog's Intergalactic says Neil Druckmann has been "bootcamp-ing" her after The Last of Us backlash: "I know Laura Bailey's experience"
- The First Descendant devs reveal Nier: Automata collab and hoverbike at PAX East as live audience politely claps for anime butt
- I went to the Courage the Cowardly Dog 25th anniversary screening and it healed my inner child - and was a bittersweet goodbye to my youth
- CD Projekt Red exec says Ciri is a great choice for The Witcher 4, and she opens up new possibilities for the series after more than a decade of RPGs
- Legendary programmer credited with saving "lost" Fallout source code confirms it was never lost in the first place: "If I do get permission from Bethesda to release the source code, I will do so"
- "I make one stupid pant s**t joke and it all goes ballistic": Helldivers 2 CEO fears "Reddit did what it always did" after he teased new updates, so now "we better deliver"
- Taking the sting off that GTA 6 delay, Rockstar leaker says GTA 4 could get a modern port this year, with Max Payne 3 to follow
- Wicked's Michelle Yeoh will play a retired surgeon fighting for her life in a new action movie from John Wick producers
- Poco F7 Pro review: "an everyday all-rounder with a bite"
- After Suicide Squad's $200 million flop and a massacre of studios, Warner Bros acknowledges it has "no releases" out, it's spending 66% less on game content, and the Hogwarts Legacy boom is wearing off
- James Gunn announces filming has wrapped on Supergirl in the most nonchalant way
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 features "ultra hard" minigames inspired by the RPG director's time in Final Fantasy 10's infamous chocobo races
- After 23 years away from Vice City, I'm glad that 80s music still runs this town – and it sets the scene for GTA 6 perfectly
- Don’t mind the 12-year wait — ex Rockstar dev suggests GTA 6 production really started in 2018
- The trailer for the next episode of The Last of Us season 2 features tons of Pedro Pascal, and it looks like it will break your heart
- Andor emulates a key plot point from Game of Thrones with one small detail in season 2 episode 9
- The Last of Us season 2 director on why episode 5's surprising ending delivered: "It was the right tonal gear shift"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's deeply frustrating minigames make harsh parries look like a breeze in contrast, and it's all Final Fantasy's fault
- Director of cult horror comedy says Warner Bros. boss "put the final nail in the coffin for Tucker and Dale" by scrapping a TV spin-off
- The Last of Us fans think Bella Ramsey "bodied" the brutal showdown in season 2 episode 5: "Stone cold vengeance mode"
- It might be price hike season, but Sony just dropped a new PS Plus PS5 bundle that's actually a bargain
- Dune: Imperium - Bloodlines review: "Make it a default part of your games"
- Assassin's Creed Shadows devs "just couldn't wait" to sneakily add some parkour improvements ahead of a bigger Title Update with some much smoother freerunning
- The New Avengers are here in new Thunderbolts poster, which mimics an iconic piece Avengers: Endgame art
- As 'knife meta' dominates Dune Awakening's beta weekend, the MMO's developers promise they've finally fixed it in a new build
- One Piece star offers promising update on season 3 of the Netflix adaptation: "I'll be heading back later on this year"
- One of the year's biggest ongoing anime is taking a surprise break, but fans are getting a "special episode" to make up for it
- Persona 5 spin-off The Phantom X is finally releasing in Japan "this summer," available on both PC and mobile platforms
- James Gunn debunks a rumor that Matt Reeves is no longer directing The Batman 2
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says "F balance" for Borderlands 4, before affirming that weapons and skills will get nerfs if they need them
- Hideo Kojima gives his verdict on Thunderbolts – and he liked it more than Captain America: Brave New World
- Tom Cruise surprises fans with unexpected stunt on the roof of the UK's biggest cinema screen
- One Fallout star says he knows the "endpoint" of the series, and thinks it could take six seasons to get there
- Ori and the Blind Forest studio is "not in immediate financial danger," CEO clarifies after suggesting it could shut down after negative reviews on action RPG No Rest for the Wicked
- Nier: Automata might've never happened as the producer considered "a very famous title that everyone knows" before the action RPG series: "But I chose Yoko Taro!"
- Tom Cruise said he was asked to make Top Gun sequels "over and over" before Maverick, but wanted to prove himself elsewhere: "I wanted more challenges"
- The Last of Us season 2 episode 5 just introduced an even scarier effect of the Cordyceps virus
- The Last of Us season 2, episode 5: The biggest changes between the HBO show and the PlayStation game
- The Last of Us season 2, episode 5's brutal moment is a twist that changes the whole show so far
- May 11
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- The Wii Homebrew Channel drama sounds scary, but in 2025 it might not actually matter for anyone using the hack
- For a free update, The First Berserker: Khazan devs cooked up a Soulslike challenge so brutal that even a lead designer said "I probably wouldn't play that"
- Kingdom Hearts 4 looks 100 years away, but this 3D action platformer with its own sort-of Keyblades and Heartless might scratch that itch
- Xbox is giving away $214 worth of its PC games for just $10, including a Metroidvania banger and the best game from Marvel's Spider-Man devs
- Gearbox's Randy Pitchford says "sometimes we're white-knuckling to the landing," but with Borderlands 4 they've never "been in a better spot this far from launch"
- No Man's Sky lead jokes GTA 6's impressive flip-flop physics might be why the game is delayed, is immediately met by Light No Fire hopefuls desperate for an update of their own
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director's first experience playing a JRPG was getting stuck on Final Fantasy 8's first boss because he and his brother "couldn’t read"
- "Quicksave, then fly": Oblivion Remastered wizard jumps across all of Cyrodiil with the perfect cocktail of broken spells and a cool 1,994 Magicka
- Final Destination: Bloodlines directors asked horror legend Tony Todd to speak directly to fans in his final performance
- Highlander director confirms shooting schedule for this year
- Netflix is removing its interactive specials very soon, including Black Mirror's Bandersnatch
- John Wick director added one game-changing detail that transformed the franchise
- The unauthorized Pokemon musical titled "Balls: The Monster Catchin' Musical" made me question everything about life and Nintendo copyright
- May 10
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- FC 25 worst players list unearths super rare Ultimate Team cards
- The platformer trilogy we all knew was mediocre even in the '90s is back with a $200 collector's edition featuring artwork from Final Fantasy legend Yoshitaka Amano
- Dev Patel's medieval action thriller The Peasant has found a home at A24
- Former PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida says the Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive he's most excited for is FromSoft's The Duskbloods: "Especially after Elden Ring"
- Resident Evil 2 still deserves its high praise 27 years on, but how did it turn a one-off PS1 success into an unstoppable horror franchise juggernaut?
- Solo dev who lives on a boat made a $6 game about a boat, and it's sold 50,000 copies in a month with 95% Steam positive reviews
- Director of new Evil Dead movie wants the horror film to be a "a visceral, sensory experience" that leaves people "physically drained"
- Baldur's Gate 3 Lae'zel actor had no idea the RPG has nudity filters, which she definitely needed for the Minthara romance: "You see quite a lot"
- After "nearly a decade" of work, devs of brilliant roguelike FPS Roboquest call it quits: "It was never meant to be what is called today a 'game as service'"
- Don't judge Borderlands 4's lack of minimap just yet - Gearbox boss says using it would be "extremely confusing" in the FPS' "big freaking world"
- Michael Fassbender and Arnold Schwarzenegger help kill Nazis in leaked Kung Fury sizzle reel
- Hello Games boss joins No Man's Sky community saluting the end of one fan's permadeath run: "All I can do is sit in my ship, watch the lightning storms, and wait for my oxygen to run out"
- The Odyssey stunt performer says the Christopher Nolan film will be "an epic of all epics"
- With 100 endings and a script big enough to fill 60 books, "many countries declined to localize" Danganronpa creator's massive new strategy RPG
- Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy explains that shocking season 2 death: "It's so elementally Greek and dramatic"
- Doctor Who season 2, episode 5 spoiler review: 'The Story & The Engine' is "one of the most original and ambitious episodes this show has produced in years"
- May 9
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- Almost 200 members of Blizzard's Overwatch 2 team have unionized: "The biggest issue was the layoffs at the beginning of 2024"
- Fortnite promises 20% back on V-bucks as long as you promise to give your money to Epic and not Apple
- Suits spin-off cancelled at NBC after just one season
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day casts The Bear star in mystery role
- Rogue punches out a dragon in Uncanny X-Men #14 as a "never before shown" part of X-history is revealed
- "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games
- The creator of XCOM has high hopes for Switch 2's mouse Joy-Cons and strategy games: "Mouse control RTS might work really well here"
- Borderlands 4 boss raises Todd Howard's 'you can climb that mountain' Skyrim promise: "You see something anywhere on the screen, a mile away, up in the sky, you will be able to get there"
- 8 years on, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild remains unlike any other open world game, and the industry is still playing catch up
- Peacemaker season 2 trailer seems to embrace the Multiverse as John Cena's antihero meets his doppelganger
- 28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it"
- Fortnite Telephone Booths: Where to don a disguise
- Next Godzilla x Kong movie announces title with a dramatic new teaser – and it's already in production
- REPO is making a big change to Overcharge "that makes the game harder every 10th level" and it won't just be "a gimmick for no reason"
- Taskmaster could have been a very different character as Black Widow star reveals he originally auditioned for the role: "He was this kind of maniacal-like character"
- The Witcher 3 is getting the asymmetrical horror treatment as Geralt, Triss, Yennefer and Ciri cosmetics come to Dead by Daylight
- In the midst of Fallout and The White Lotus star Walton Goggins' very loud career renaissance is a quietly moving comedy-drama that the world needs right now
- "It's really interesting to tell a story so convoluted": how Dead by Daylight is still "expanding the definition of horror" 9 years later
- REPO dev has been joining and questioning players "incognito, in secret, through the random matchmaking" in the big update beta
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gets its first big patch, as the RPG's devs say "this is the first in a series of patches we are looking to do over the coming months"
- Jeremy Renner says "some" of Hawkeye season 2's most interesting rumors are true, but they've "still gotta figure things out" before it happens
- The Witcher 3's deadliest foe might just be The Bloody Baron's Gwent deck, which has spent 10 years kicking our collective butts across 458 million matches
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's big Maelle nerf is even worse than we thought, as it turns out one of her best weapons was never meant to be so powerful in the first place
- A new Netflix sci-fi show that's storming up the charts has a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, and it has Hideo Kojima's approval: "This is really good"
- Behold, all 5,000-plus frames of GTA 6's latest trailer, which have been uploaded online as detectives work to uncover all of Rockstar's secrets
- Andor star reveals there were "three or four" other options for what Cassian says to them in this week's long-awaited showdown
- I played Doom the Dark Ages at over 500fps, proving Nvidia DLSS 4 was made for high-refresh rate monitors
- Doom: The Dark Ages review: "Some may appreciate the greater focus on close-quarters, but others will find themselves nostalgic for the simple joys of double jumps"
- Switch 2 games like Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza "could not be realized" on Switch 1, says Nintendo president to hardware doubter
- In true Undertale fashion, the Deltarune website now features various mysterious pages fans are scrambling to decipher: "What the f*** does this mean?"
- Locomoto is a train management adventure with Animal Crossing vibes and Minecraft-like crafting that's already claimed hours of my time
- This limited edition glow-in-the-dark PS5 skin is giving me serious 90s bedroom vibes
- 10 years before Thunderbolts, Sentry actor Lewis Pullman auditioned for a very different Marvel role
- In a world of jetpacks and mechs, Helldivers 2 players are losing their mind over a sword, and yeah, I get it
- Baldur's Gate 3 Lae'zel actor had a little chair in the booth because she was still recording 2 days before giving birth: "My waters broke after the session"
- Warhammer spoils its biggest 2025 reveal with a fun, tongue-in-cheek teaser
- Nintendo of America might turn your Switch into an expensive paperweight if you mod your console or install any "unauthorized" games, new policy warns
- Devil May Cry creator Hideki Kamiya would love to remake the first game: "Capcom – please leave it to me"
- My new favorite detail in GTA 6 trailer 2 is best-in-class cloth animation that rivals an acclaimed scene from The Last of Us 2
- The publisher that saved Attack on Titan is hosting a competition to rescue previously rejected manga ideas
- The 32 greatest music movies (that aren't musicals)
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 boss clarifies no DLC is planned – instead, they're focusing on improving the base game
- Toby Fox confirms Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4 release time and says they'll be "cross-buy," so you get PS4 and PS5 or Nintendo Switch 1 and 2 copies "for one price"
- Tom Cruise reveals the one Mission: Impossible stunt that couldn't be done – and he made the Final Reckoning director try it himself to prove it
- Prolific trailer maker thinks GTA 6 looks "amazing," but says its second trailer tells us almost nothing about its main characters
- Surprisingly touching Final Destination: Bloodlines featurette says the franchise’s most beloved character’s purpose will finally be revealed
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 could "top 8-10 million" sales, says Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead as he shouts out his fellow RPG's "incredible achievement"
- Nintendo website sparks hope Donkey Kong Bananza might have multiplayer, which would be even more evidence that the Mario Odyssey team could be making it
- Thunderbolts' Jake Schreier is reportedly the "top choice" to direct Marvel's new X-Men movie
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach has gone gold, so Hideo Kojima can finally work on the several other projects he's announced
- May 8
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- Silent Hill 2 movie from the director behind the controversial 2006 Silent Hill will be a "faithful adaptation" of the "masterpiece of a game" that is the PS2 classic
- 10 Dune Awakening tips we wish we'd known earlier
- How to get the Sandbike vehicle in Dune Awakening
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- Dune Awakening Griffin's Reach Tradepost location
- FPS legend John Romero says it's a "huge honor" for Quake to join the World Video Game Hall of Fame alongside GoldenEye, the inescapable Tamagotchi, and an iconic '80s arcade classic
- Amid Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's turn-based hype, Square Enix asks JRPG fans "what's the best combat system" in its catalog and shares "some games with brilliant battles"
- JRPG sickos, I hate to get your hopes up again, but Yuji Horii says he's "starting to contemplate" a Chrono Trigger remake
- Fallout season 2 wraps filming and celebrates with video of Walton Goggins ripping his skin off
- Xbox is hiring to "secure the future of game preservation," and this time it's no AI Quake nightmare
- 23 years and 3 sequels later, Mafia: The Old Country is abandoning its open-world roots, but a $50 "linear, narrative-driven" game sounds like heaven in 2025
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4's new levels impress me as much as the rebuilt classics: "This needs to feel like we found this on a hard drive for THPS4 and we revitalized it"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (May 9 - 11)
- Doctor Doom's son locks lips with Killmonger as the secret of the Superior Avengers heats up
- John Walker was originally the Thunderbolts villain, but "it didn't work the same"
- Andor showrunner had to scrap an episode of the Star Wars show that was "like a horror movie": "We could not afford to do it"
- After "abrupt actions by Valve," Counter-Strike mod in development for 8 years gets canceled – modders deny using leaked Source code and say others should "reconsider how they see Valve"
- Destiny 2 lead insists divisive Star Wars-inspired expansion Renegades "is in-canon for the Destiny universe" as players worry the MMO is pulling a Fortnite
- Helldivers 2: The Board Game is a mighty fine cup of liber-tea, and I can't wait to play more
- Lego bounces into Pixar territory to bring the iconic lamp and ball animation to your home
- Razer wants to put your headset inside your gaming chair, and I have questions
- Marvel's upcoming Thunderbolts comic has officially been retitled New Avengers, following in the movie's footsteps
- First haunting trailer for The Conjuring: Last Rites sees Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga take on their final case
- Some players swear by it, but Oblivion Remastered test finds that performance mod with 650k downloads seemingly does next to nothing: "After testing it A/B... it runs the same"
- Cozy sandbox RPG mash-up from former Dragon Age, Skyrim, and Witcher talent raises over $100k on Kickstarter in just 1 day
- Nintendo Switch 2's huge third-party support is something "we haven't seen" from Nintendo "maybe ever, but at least for a long time, maybe even since the GameCube," analyst says
- Andy Serkis' new Gollum-centric Lord of the Rings movie gets a precious December 2027 release date
- The Hunt For Gollum release date, plot, cast, and more news
- Oblivion Remastered player clears the RPG's Dark Brotherhood "murder mansion" quest in 8.75 seconds using only his fists, leaving no witnesses
- Former PlayStation boss blames AAA "production costs" for $80 games, says titles with "tighter teams" like Clair Obscur could be the way forward
- Razer's new gaming keyboard looks perfect for Steam Deck fans
- Dark Souls 3 helps explain the papal conclave to Spanish TV viewers, who may be wondering where the cardinals got all those fireballs
- Sennheiser HD 550 review - a feast for the ears, but not enough to make me put down my favorite wireless gaming headsets
- Uma Thurman goes full Kill Bill as she faces off against Charlize Theron in first trailer for Netflix fantasy-action sequel The Old Guard 2
- John Wick director says Donnie Yen "had concerns" about his Rogue One character not living up to full potential: "It's hard when you're doing Star Wars as there's so many other things going on"
- Marvel Rivals' nerfs to Doctor Strange have turned him into a punching bag, and its taking me back to my nightmarish days as a Reinhardt main in Overwatch
- Mafia: The Old Country won't be $80 when it drops this August, but it's still a "premium experience in the vein of earlier Mafia entries"
- Everything in the Helldivers 2 Masters of Ceremony Warbond
- New Nintendo of America policy asks users to give up their rights to a class-action lawsuit and call customer service instead: "Most matters can be quickly resolved in this manner"
- One of Andor season 2's most shocking moments has a haunting parallel with the final act of Rogue One
- PUBG creator's nails-hard survival game flips genre staples on their heads: "Have you tried chopping down a tree?"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs warn players have "1 more day to enjoy" the JRPG's most broken skill before it's nerfed, after they "clearly overdid it" with a last-minute damage boost
- GTA 6 mapping community is already "connecting the dots" from Rockstar's new trailer to accurately draw the game's map a full year in advance
- Monopoly Go Tatooine Treasures minigame explained
- Switch 2 price could still rise, as Nintendo president says the company is racing to beat new tariffs
- Pair the latest MSI MPG QD-OLED monitors with Nvidia's new RTX 50 series for stunning 4K UHD visuals and a top-of-the-line gaming experience
- From jiggle physics to individually modeled blades of grass, this game dev proves how GTA 6 is taking Red Dead Redemption 2's visuals to the next level
- Quit acting like somebody stole your sweetroll, the Skyrim adventure board game is down to its lowest price since last year
- Forget Fortnite Festival – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Expert difficulty is secretly the rhythm game I've been waiting years for
- After failing to sell for $100,000, one of the rarest GameCubes ever is up for auction - and its price is climbing fast
- Hideo Kojima prefers casting actors he vibes with irl, and that's not going to change for his upcoming horror or spy games
- Ms. Marvel star Iman Vellani calls Thunderbolts "The Breakfast Club in tactical gear"
- Deep Blue Sea director ditches sharks for orcas in upcoming ocean horror movie
- Andor season 2 includes the highest-rated live-action Star Wars TV episodes of all time
- Death Stranding 2 will "allow players that want to fight to do so more freely," Hideo Kojima says, like how Metal Gear Solid 2 "made it a little easier to use weapons"
- Death Stranding 2 devs worried it was "getting a little Metal Gear-ish," but Hideo Kojima himself says you don't have to be sneaky: "I don't even use stealth myself"
- Anime's summer season just got even more crowded with this new isekai series from the studio behind Fire Force and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- Borderlands 4's lead writer is desperately trying to keep a lid on the toilet humor: "the rejected names for this system would make a dockworker blush"
- Halfoween may have passed, but $20 off the best horror board game means it can always be Halloween in your house
- Hideo Kojima already has a Death Stranding 3 pitch that could relate to a DS2 plot device, but "I am not going to make it myself"
- Palworld studio makes "yet another compromise" amid Nintendo lawsuit by changing the survival game's gliding mechanic
- The Last of Us season 3 will "definitely" provide answers about a season 2 mystery, promise showrunners: "We just didn't know if we were getting canceled"
- GTA 6's new trailer has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to Red Dead Redemption 2, further proving they're set in the same universe
- Elden Ring DLC and Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero made up for Bandai Namco's disastrous 2024, spiking profits nearly 1000%
- Nintendo predicts Switch 2 will sell 15 million units and 45 million games in its first year, so it's "working to strengthen our production to meet demand"
- Andor's Tony Gilroy said he "hijacked canon" to retcon Mon Mothma's big moment from Star Wars Rebels: "Do I have to stick to this speech?"
- Final Destination: Bloodlines’ new marketing tactic has just given us another bizarre way of dying to worry about
- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's performance woes didn't hold back its sales, as Gen 9 overtakes Sword and Shield to become the series' all-time runner-ups
- Empyreal review: "This looter slasher's often beautiful, hand-designed levels and robust challenge kept pulling me back to go one more round"
- I Am Legend 2 release date speculation, cast, plot, trailer, and everything we know about the upcoming horror sequel
- May 7
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- Eric Barone can't say if Haunted Chocolatier will be out by 2030, but "that's the goal" and "it has to be better" than Stardew Valley
- Eric Barone says "if there was gonna be another" Stardew Valley update after 1.6, he wouldn't announce it until it was "completely finished" on all platforms
- "EA said make this a live service": Dragon Age veteran says the fourth game's multiplayer pivot was a "rationalization" to move devs onto Anthem, and "I wish that pivot had never occurred"
- Disney boss Bob Iger admits Marvel "lost a little focus by making too much," and says Thunderbolts is "the first and best example" of "better quality" after refocusing on movies
- "I might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2," says Eric Barone, but "I just don't care about money" and it's "so much easier" to update the original
- Avengers: Doomsday actor may have confirmed one of the movie's biggest twists: "You're hitting Pedro Pascal against the head or something"
- "Stats in Souls don't matter": Ori studio founder and No Rest for the Wicked lead says the "attribute system has to die" in the ARPG inspired by Dark Souls since players don't get it
- Rockstar says GTA 6 trailer 2 was "equal parts gameplay and cutscenes," and I'm wondering where the gameplay was
- DC is sending a "perfect heist crew" of villains to rob the Justice League in a new title from superstar creators Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott
- Ex Rockstar dev says GTA 6 would be worth the "$80 bucks or whatever" for its detail and realism: "You think Mario Kart competes with a game like this"
- Hideo Kojima says "everyone would move out of the way" of GTA 6, but Death Stranding 2 is 95% complete and its release date was decided a long time ago
- $475 for one character in a video game: Genshin Impact adds new gacha disclaimers after FTC orders it to make costs and currencies less confusing
- First trailer for dystopian horror movie from Hunger Games director based on an underrated Stephen King novel features the contest from hell
- FromSoftware warns "the same strategy won't always work" in Elden Ring Nightreign, which is bad news for me because I used the same strategy in all the Souls games
- New D&D Frankenstein subclass jolts the Artificer back to life
- Undeterred by Concord, Sony expands its live service army: PlayStation Studios adds new dev making a "team-based action game" targeting "years" of support
- Oblivion Remastered lets you wipe out entire taverns of NPCs with ease, and I don't know how I missed this playing the original RPG for 19 years
- The League of Legends MMO gets its yearly mention, as Riot's co-founder offers another tiny hint as to its continued existence
- After reportedly laying off more than 300 people, EA CEO says "AI is powering our future" and is already being used "in design, animation, and storytelling"
- Solo Leveling season 3 release date speculation, story, and everything else we know so far
- FromSoftware had to adjust the difficulty in Elden Ring Nightreign after the beta to make sure it's "challenging as you progress, but still manageable," and yes, some things are harder now
- Donnie Yen's upcoming John Wick spin-off is officially a sequel to Chapter 4, as another returning cast member is confirmed
- Oblivion Remastered streamer creates real-life version of the RPG's persuasion minigame and commands Twitch viewers to "try to convince me to do what they want"
- Netflix is rolling out an "elevated" and "more personal" update for subscribers that’ll make it easier to find what to watch
- Fortnite X-Wings and TIE Fighters: Where to find them
- While GTA 6 fans try to figure out who's voicing Jason, Sonic the Hedgehog and Assassin's Creed actor denies his involvement: "NOT my voice"
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 has "some of the best writing" they’ve had on the show, says star Charlie Cox: "I don’t want to oversell it"
- I walked an hour in the rain to play horse girl gacha game Umamusume: Pretty Derby at the actual Kentucky Derby
- "Chat did we cook?": GTA 6 devs are "so proud" as Rockstar drops trailer 2, saying that "working hard pays off"
- Other versions of the Thunderbolts post-credits scene included Baron Zemo and Kang
- Acer Predator Aethon 330 review: "a tough sell"
- The 32 greatest characters from fantasy movies
- In Oblivion Remastered I returned to a village that has haunted me for years to relive one of the best side quests in the RPG
- MX Creative Console review: “Feels clunkier than a typical keyboard in almost every way”
- Talk To Me director’s new horror movie Bring Her Back is being called "terrifying" and "dread inducing" in overwhelmingly positive first reactions
- As Oblivion Remastered gets all the love, Starfield's biggest modders are in the process of abandoning Bethesda's latest RPG for good
- Cardinals are reportedly watching Oscar-winning drama Conclave for guidance on the real-life event
- Dragon Age veteran says his team was "jerked around" because EA didn't care about big RPGs like Mass Effect: Andromeda, just Anthem
- Rockstar impresses Baldur's Gate 3 dev with new GTA 6 trailer: "I really like the GTA series because it humbles an industry that constantly argues about everything all the time"
- Hades 2 devs are getting "closer to the finish line" as the roguelike sequel celebrates its first early access anniversary
- New horror D&D subclasses are on the way, and I can't wait to use this especially gross one
- I hate making Warhammer cavalry, but I'm all in on the new Gloomspite Gitz Gitmob models
- Star Wars fans are calling Andor season 2 episode 8 "absolutely gutting" and "one of the best TV episodes ever"
- Sebastian Stan reveals the Bucky moment that was cut from the Thunderbolts post-credits scene: "I thought it was genius"
- The Xbox handheld just leaked, and it looks more like the PlayStation Portal than I was expecting
- Monster Hunter Wilds gets its first time-limited Free Challenge Quest, and reactions from fans of the action RPG range from "too forgiving" to "frustratingly hard"
- DC enlists Drive scribe to rewrite Mike Flanagan’s Clayface script
- Spider-Man: No Way Home stopped Sentry getting a comic-accurate MCU entry, Thunderbolts director jokes
- Following Red Dead Redemption 2's realistic horse anatomy, Rockstar doubles down with dedicated beer tech for GTA 6
- For $10 less than Mario Kart World, you can buy this portable monitor for your Switch 2 and race your pals in the garden
- Charlie Cox "pushed back" against a Daredevil: Born Again episode that became a fan favorite: "Everyone's taste is different"
- How does that huge Mon Mothma moment in Andor season 2, episode 9 match with Star Wars Rebels? The similarities and differences explained
- Andor season 2 reveals the surprise origins of Rogue One's most iconic line
- Andor season 2 episode 8 finally introduces a familiar Star Wars character from Rogue One
- May 6
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- EA CEO won't call out the GTA 6 delay by name, but says the new Battlefield release window is "clearer than it was before"
- EA says "it hasn't always" understood what Battlefield players want, but the response to the new entry has "far exceeded our expectations" after "thousands of hours" of playtests
- Marvel brings the MCU's Avengers Vs. New Avengers conflict into the real world by adding a copyright to Sam Wilson's Avengers social media
- GTA 6 map returns to Vice City and explores the riches of the Florida-lite state of Leonida: "Malt liquor, painkillers, and truck stop energy drinks"
- CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edition"
- "Oh, you don't like hentai on your Switch?": Dev says Switch 2 needs to fix Nintendo's "pathetic" eShop, and he's not the only one who thinks so
- Walton Goggins says Fallout season 2 is on a "whole 'nother level": "I wasn’t prepared for where the story was gonna go"
- It sure seems like Rockstar is still salty over that GTA 6 mega leak as trailer 2 opens with protagonist Jason "just fixing some leaks"
- The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus, and more
- The Boys season 5's Supernatural reunion will indeed be on-screen: "I will confirm that Jared, Jensen, and Misha are all in the same frame together"
- GTA 6 brings back a classic location from Vice City, this time even more ridiculously American
- Black Cat is going "full-fledged superhero" in her own comic from Ms. Marvel co-creator
- With 19 million views, 312k comments, and 3 million likes in 4 hours, I think it's safe to say GTA 6 trailer 2 has broken YouTube
- Bungie reveals what's next for Destiny 2: "Multiyear" Fate Saga starts with Edge of Fate expansion in July, "Star Wars-inspired" Renegades expansion with LucasFilm in December
- 3 years later, Elden Ring is getting two new starting classes with the Nintendo Switch 2's Tarnished Edition
- "Grand Theft Auto 6 looks like a AAA game from the future": Game devs react to GTA 6 trailer 2, wowed by Rockstar's "incredible graphical fidelity"
- Every GTA 6 location revealed so far
- Pokemon TCG is dropping another split expansion, and resellers are gonna have a field day
- 85 new GTA 6 screenshots and images drop alongside new trailer, providing an in-depth tour of Vice City and all its surrounding locations
- Liberty City lives on in spirit as GTA 6 reveals new protagonist Lucia is from GTA's New York
- All the GTA 6 characters we know of right now
- Anthony Mackie seemingly shares the first footage from the Avengers: Doomsday set, and Marvel fans think it's got something to do with Doctor Doom
- John Wick 5 director says the film is "not a continuation" and will have a new story: "It will be really different"
- "We got a PS6 tease before GTA 6": Everyone's making the same joke about this 5-second shot in Rockstar's new Grand Theft Auto trailer, which features a mysterious new console
- Grand Theft Auto creator reacts to GTA 6 trailer 2: "Now that's more like it. That environment is lovely, and things are moving much better"
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake co-director drops more hints that Rebirth and Part 3 could be coming to Switch 2, which he immediately thought "would have enough power" to handle the trilogy
- New horror sequel Final Destination: Bloodlines takes gore to the next level by breaking one of the strangest world records we have ever heard of
- "IS THAT PHIL CASSIDY": New GTA 6 trailer seems to resurrect a fan-favorite GTA 3D loser years after he disappeared from the franchise
- Rockstar gives us our best look at the GTA 6 characters yet, from a beer-loving, conspiracy-believing hermit to a rap duo with a "relentless social media presence"
- Robert Downey Jr gave "two thumbs up" to Ironheart star Dominique Thorne: "He's rooting for it, too"
- Blue Prince is the most non-stressful roguelike I've ever played, and that makes it perfect for bedtime
- GTA 6's Lucia and Jason get full names and backstories as trailer 2 drops and Rockstar shares loads more details about its protagonists
- Wyatt Russell admits he "didn't want to say" the Captain America Easter egg in Thunderbolts
- Dark Souls 2 speedrunner was "on the cusp of a World's First" hitless saxophone run – right until he walked into a death pit in the middle of the final boss room
- GTA 6 trailer 2 live coverage - all the analysis and reactions
- After studying them for 40 years, Tom Cruise says Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning features an underwater scene "unlike any other"
- GTA 6 trailer 2 drops out of nowhere, putting Lucia and Jason in the spotlight once again
- You can get some of Oblivion Remastered's best weapons and armor sets at level 1, if you can outsmart the RPG's infamous scaling system
- Backbone's long-awaited "Pro" model is finally here, but I hope you've been saving for it
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's brilliant parry system solves a classic JRPG problem: I can win any match-up on skill alone, so being under-leveled is just a state of mind
- "I hate it": Former Assassin's Creed, Far Cry lead says that with Switch 2 game-key cards, "we're losing some of what made the business special"
- Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe worries follow-up Haunted Chocolatier might "ruin the teeth of a whole generation": "I'm thinking about doing it so you can only eat like two chocolates per day"
- Upcoming horror movie from the studio behind Longlegs and The Monkey reveals weird and bloody new trailer
- Lady Gaga included Thing in a recent performance to tease her Wednesday season 2 role, and Netflix has responded in the best way
- Thunderbolts screenwriter didn't know Marvel cut his original Taskmaster arc until he watched the movie
- Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones stars' strange upcoming horror movie contains "ultra violent content" and "mutant nudity," and it's heading into theaters unrated
- Warner Bros. has seen an early cut of Superman and James Gunn has "really understood the assignment"
- Games almost never pull this off, but Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 managed a JRPG miracle: hitting an even higher Steam player peak weeks after launch
- Kevin Feige reportedly has a long-term vision for X-Men in the MCU – including a "10-year plan"
- Borderlands fan determined to bring back dead MMO gets past the first hurdle – the login screen: "I'll make sure the community gets to experience this game one way or another"
- Uperfect Umax 24 review: “pushes the definition of a portable monitor in the best way possible”
- Rosario Dawson reveals serious bruises after only one week of filming Ahsoka season 2: "Not a weak one"
- Marvel boss Kevin Feige reportedly feels that recent MCU shows and movies "feel more like homework than entertainment"
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 hits 3 million players, who in 3 months have collectively made Henry kill almost 500 million humans and spend 387 million hours drunk
- After completing 220,000 frames of animation so far, one Solo Leveling producer wants years of "breathing room" before starting season 3
- Thunderbolts director reveals scrapped idea for Bucky's unseen shame room, and it's absolutely nothing like what you'd expect
- Netflix drops the first Squid Game season 3 teaser, and one blink and you'll miss it moment has everyone convinced a major character survived season 2 after all
- It took Oblivion Remastered a single week to become the third best-selling game of 2025 behind Assassin's Creed Shadows and Monster Hunter Wilds
- May 5
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- Your eyes do not deceive you, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has penis jiggle physics
- Russo Brothers confirm they directed the Thunderbolts post-credits scene on the set of Avengers: Doomsday - "We left you a little something"
- Fanmade Zelda: Majora's Mask PC port can now run Doom, and as mod support comes to the N64 classic there's already dabbing, quality-of-life upgrades, and a playable CJ from GTA: San Andreas
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 head was "bored" at Ubisoft and hungry for a JRPG, and made the highest-rated game of 2025 – "Somehow it worked, which still makes no sense to me"
- After 25 years, a weird Sega icon is back with a new game from the "entire original team," remasters, and a countdown website that only has 8,529 hours to go
- Marvel reveals the meaning of the Thunderbolts asterisk by changing the name of its own movie
- Nintendo Switch 2 anticipation partly fueled by "palpable desperation" in the world, analyst says, and people wanting "something to bring joy" no matter the launch games
- Fans can get a sneak peek at Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle when they go to see the 4k re-release of Demon Slayer: Mugen Train
- After playing Ghost of Yotei "at several stages of its development," former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida swears it's "even better" than Ghost of Tsushima
- The Last of Us season 2 episode 4 director stole a script-writing tip from the show for her live-action The Sims movie: "It's such a good idea"
- Ex PlayStation boss says $50 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the "perfect balance" of AAA ambition, AA budget, and "independent vision" – "This is the path the industry should be pursuing"
- James Gunn's dog has a wild reaction to seeing himself as Superman's Krypto: "Every time he sees himself come on screen, he tries to murder himself"
- Switch 2 fans so desperate for news they've already decoded Donkey Kong Bananza's secret banana alphabet, which I didn't even know existed
- The first post-Rise of Skywalker Star Wars project won't be the Ryan Gosling movie, but a new novel starring Finn and Jannah
- That Gears of War remaster is also coming to PS5, and it's out this August for $40 – or free for some "longtime fans"
- Even John Romero is worried about Joy-Con drift on Nintendo Switch 2, so here's hoping those "not Hall effect sticks" hold up better than the originals
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead writer was first hired as a voice actor after she "saw a post on Reddit" calling for auditions: "I've never done that, it sounds kinda cool"
- Does size really matter? The difference between 40mm and 50mm gaming headset drivers explained
- The Last of Us season 2 episode 4 director compares Josh Peck’s cameo to Drew Barrymore in Scream: "People just wouldn’t see it coming"
- Fallout star Walton Goggins on the real-life complicated relationships that form the "genesis" of brutally honest new indie comedy The Uninvited: "It was so important to tell this story"
- LocalThunk shouts out "4th person to join the Balatro Discord" as their new deckbuilding tactics game gets rave reviews: "I TOLD YALL THIS GAME WOULD SLAP"
- Naughty Dog won't do it, so this AAA dev and his wife made their own Jak & Daxter-inspired retro platformer – it feels great and crushed its Kickstarter goal
- A Persona and Shin Megami Tensei artist trained an AI model to draw like him, and look at that, it wasn't worth it
- Now that the Series S costs even more, I can't help but feel Microsoft wants us to look at handhelds and say, "this is an Xbox"
- Revenge of the Savage Planet review: "An underrated sci-fi platformer gets a beautiful third-person sequel, but I'm left cold by shallow busywork and an over-reliance on toilet humor"
- "It's a big first": Debut horse MMORPG from former World of Warcraft devs' studio is a Twin Peaks murder mystery unlike anything you've ever seen
- After nailing his first JRPG, Metaphor: ReFantazio lead UI designer has one piece of advice for his old self: "Your PC is going to break in 2021. Do something about it!"
- Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone says Disney's farming RPG got him to take notice by its title alone: "Wait, it's called Dreamlight Valley? What's going on here?"
- The Last of Us season 2 episode 4 just introduced a Part 2 character much earlier than expected
- The Last of Us managed to keep a major cameo secret – and it's the perfect surprise
- The Last of Us season 2, episode 4: The biggest changes between the HBO show and the PlayStation game
- May 4
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- Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone "assumed people wouldn't like Pierre," but thinks he's "not as bad as some people think"
- Titanfall dreams are shattered after EA cancels next game, so this studio raised $500,000 on Kickstarter to make its own mech survival game
- Modders behind Skyrim's co-op are now bringing a Dark Souls-style "social mod" to Oblivion Remastered
- "The eShop needs to be better. MUCH better": 28 game devs, from the creator of XCOM to indie legends, explain what they want from Nintendo Switch 2
- Nintendo is suing an accessory maker over "infringement, unfair competition, and false advertising" for releasing Switch 2 mock-ups weeks before reveal
- Star Wars fans think they've debunked a potential Andor plot hole
- Solo Leveling's voice actor "snuck in" a line from the manhwa that was way too good not to include
- Say "hello there" to my new favorite Star Wars lightsaber, which blew my mind with a neat trick
- Naruto and Naruto Shippuden filler list: All the episodes you can skip
- Marvel fans are discussing who they think should have been in the Thunderbolts line-up
- Someone has ranked every single one of Tom Cruise's running scenes on screen, and you'll be shocked by how many there are
- It took five years, but Thunderbolts' post-credits surprise finally fixed my big problem with the MCU before Avengers: Doomsday
- May 3
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- Super Mario 64, a forgotten Dreamcast JRPG, classic Jet Li films, and more all inspired Tim Schafer while working on Psychonauts
- The Black Series 212th Clone Trooper helmet is testing my willpower
- "If I made Stardew Valley again, I would try to be a little more nuanced": Eric Barone says the Community Center versus JojaMart battle was too black and white
- Danganronpa creator would love to port his acclaimed strategy RPG to more consoles, but the studio is "still on the brink of going under"
- Warfare stars Will Poulter and Kit Connor are heading to the Rapture to fight zombies
- Dragon Quest's Yuji Horii didn't actually reveal a Chrono Trigger remake after all, despite reports the JRPG classic was making a comeback
- Robert Downey Jr. may have just spoiled Thunderbolts and fans aren't happy
- After years of despising JRPGs, Clair Obscur has finally brought me around by ditching the standard cast of tedious teenagers
- Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock plan third screen reunion in romantic thriller for Amazon
- I review Lego Star Wars for a living, and these are the discounted sets I would buy myself for May 4
- Ryan Reynolds is planning a Deadpool team-up movie with X-Men
- Doctor Who season 2, episode 4 spoiler review: 'Lucky Day' has a "genuinely surprising" mid-episode reveal
- The Last of Us season 2 star has shared the moment that gave her the worst "video game PTSD"
- May 2
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- This Oblivion Remastered Easter egg is forcing me to confront a difficult truth about early 2010s meme culture: It was never funny, actually
- "Even though I worked on Oblivion Remastered, I'm still excited for Skyblivion": Bethesda shows more love to the modders who've been remaking Elder Scrolls 4 for 12 years
- Square Enix is "probably kicking itself" seeing the success of realistic turn-based JRPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, analyst says, after being "reticent to do it with the Final Fantasy series"
- Jurassic World: Rebirth goes full fantasy with a new crop of mutant dinosaurs including one that looks like a T-rex "designed by HR Giger" which then "had sex with a Rancor"
- Chrono Trigger remake reportedly revealed by Dragon Quest and JRPG pioneer Yuji Horii, who seemingly didn't know it was a secret: "You have heard nothing"
- Solo Leveling producer says one 24-minute episode of the hit anime can take "up to 12 months" to make
- The Devourer of Worlds faces penance for every life he's taken as he squares off with the Spirit of Vengeance in Ghost Rider Vs. Galactus #1
- "Yesterday was probably one of the worst days of my life": New No Rest for the Wicked update was such a mess, its lead dev and the Ori studio's founder immediately issued a 23-point hotfix
- Avatar 3 shares first look at Zoe Saldaña’s Neytiri as James Cameron says she’s "incandescent" in the new movie
- With GTA 6 delayed to 2026, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 star celebrates: "We're in with a shot" to win Game of the Year 2025
- Ghost of Yotei is the latest in a long line of Collector's Editions that doesn't come with a physical game, and I'm starting to think nobody understands what game collectors actually want
- Mouse: P.I for Hire just revealed some of its experimental new weapons, including a 'Self-Aware Attitude Changer' that could come in handy in real life
- Revenge of the Savage Planet drops launch trailer that's equally as bizarre as all the others
- Elden Ring Nightreign outfits resurrect our favorite sun knight with their bucket load of Dark Souls references: "SOLAIRE IS BACK"
- "We really getting Silksong before GTA 6": Hollow Knight fans can hardly believe their eyes as Rockstar's biggest game ever slips past the indie Metroidvania to rule them all
- GTA 6 delay is a "bummer," former Rockstar technical lead says, but the release date announcement shows the devs are "clearly confident" in the new deadline
- This Xbox controller might be the sturdiest I've ever tested and did I mention it comes with a free reel of RGB lighting?
- True blockbuster filmmaking with real sets, practical effects, and big stunts will save us from superhero fatigue – and Thunderbolts, Superman and Fantastic Four have given me hope
- Marvel fans are praising Lewis Pullman's "perfect casting" as Sentry in Thunderbolts, after the character was almost played by a completely different actor
- An unexpected Netflix thriller movie just beat out Tom Hardy's long-delayed action hit for the number one most-watched spot
- Analysts react to GTA 6 delay: "2025 will clearly be the year of Nintendo now" and "the delay isn't a stumble – it's Rockstar doing what it always does"
- Do you need a gaming chair with massage features?
- Marvel star Jeremy Renner won't be back for Hawkeye season 2 because Disney reportedly tried to cut his salary in half: "I had to defend myself"
- With GTA 6 delayed to 2026, prepare for this year's floodgates to burst as publishers scramble to fill the empty space left by their biggest fear
- 20 years later, The Revenge of the Sith re-release proves that Star Wars prequels fever is going nowhere
- REPO's first big update is now available in beta and "on the home stretch" for full launch: "We want to involve you guys directly wherever we can"
- You can get an actual Star Wars droid that follows you around, but you don't wanna know how much it'll cost
- GTA 6 delay was reportedly inevitable: "Nobody I've talked to at Rockstar has believed fall 2025 was a real window for a very long time now"
- "I don't think anyone benefits in 2025 from this": GTA 6 delay is bad news for the games industry, analyst says, adding to "nightmare scenario territory" following Xbox price hike
- X-Files star Gillian Anderson thinks Ryan Coogler is the "perfect person" to reboot the show and teases if she'll return: "Call me"
- Upcoming clown movie takes horror movie marketing up a notch by letting its crazed killer loose on the streets
- Ghost of Yotei pre-orders are now live, including a stacked Collector's Edition
- Cult of the Lamb publisher wants its own Barbenheimer moment, doubles down on plans to launch a game on GTA 6's new release date: "You can't escape us"
- Spend 60 hours in Super Mario Odyssey and you'll see why it's one of the best games Nintendo has ever made
- Jurassic World Rebirth star explains how the new movie differs from the recent reboots: "It's welcoming people to really celebrate the original film"
- Take-Two CEO "fully" supports Rockstar's GTA 6 delay, promises "a groundbreaking, blockbuster entertainment experience that exceeds audience expectations"
- ConcernedApe regrets making Stardew Valley's fishing minigame "too hard" when you start out, but still thinks it's good overall: "I know it's controversial"
- The Winds of Winter release date speculation, plot, and everything else we know about George R.R. Martin's new book
- D&D is the secret ingredient in my new deck-building strategy game obsession, and it's got me going John Wick on evil wizards
- Sarah Michelle Gellar debunks "fake" leaks about her Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot and praises Eternals director Chloé Zhao's "passion" for the project
- Keychron M5 review: "vertical value at its best"
- GTA 6 2026 release delay live blog - All the information and reactions live
- Unlike Animal Crossing, house decoration in the Lord of the Rings life sim game doesn't operate on a grid because Hobbits also love "clutter-core"
- Deadlock streamer accidentally unveils 10 new heroes on the way to Valve's MOBA, as well as updated character designs for multiple existing favorites
- This streaming service has become an anime fan's dream thanks to 800 hours of free additions – including a Bleach movie marathon
- GTA 6 release date set for May 2026 as Rockstar's long-awaited open-world blockbuster is delayed out of this year
- The Switch 2 will send my OG handheld into retirement, so I'm giving it this discounted upscaler as a leaving gift
- Marvel fans have realized that other MCU characters could have been caught up in the events of Thunderbolts, with heartbreaking consequences
- I've learned nothing from horror, so when this Lovecraftian RPG asked me to hold a ritual in a spooky mansion, I was ready and waiting with candles
- The 32 greatest DC Comics movies of all time
- Bethesda fans briefly panic as Todd retires – but not Todd Howard, so you can get back to calmly playing Oblivion Remastered: "They really shouldn't have allowed two Todds to work there"
- Mission: Impossible fans will have to channel their inner Tom Cruise to open the new The Final Reckoning popcorn bucket
- Thunderbolts director reveals the big post-credits scene was so last minute that it was filmed on the set of Avengers: Doomsday
- Call of Duty Blaze of Glory event and rewards explained
- Mission: Impossible director says they would "not have done" one of Final Reckoning's most dangerous stunts if they "knew what it took to do it"
- Nintendo swiftly rolls out another Switch update after the last one trapped some users on an error screen when loading up their consoles
- The Thunderbolts cast were given "ownership," over their characters, which meant Florence Pugh could change that death-defying opening scene for the better
- Overwatch 2's new third-person mode wasn't a reaction to Marvel Rivals - the director's son actually "created the first pitch" well before Blizzard's sequel
- May 1
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- JRPG legend Yuji Horii is teaming up with the Blue Lock manga writer for a new Nintendo Switch game literally designed to ruin your friendships
- Epic rushes to dunk on Apple after App Store court ruling, announces Epic Game Store update promising options "where Apple, Google, and others charge exorbitant fees"
- Marvel's new Star Wars #1 enters the post-Return of the Jedi era with new adventures for Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Princess Leia
- "An entirely new department is spinning up at Larian" focused on the Baldur's Gate 3 studio's greatest strength: RPG storytelling
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs admit "we were wrong" about "practice is everything" advice for the RPG's difficult parries: "The true strategy is dying over and over until you land a counter"
- Thunderbolts actor wanted to change his character's name but was told no: "It's in the comics, you can't change that"
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 publisher says Oblivion Remastered "didn't seem to harm us at all," it just "drew attention to quality RPGs"
- Hollow Knight: Silksong devs released dozens of Hornet sprites, and of course all anybody can focus on is the nude one: "HORNET PUT YOUR CLOAK BACK ON"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (May 2 - 4)
- All Borderlands 4 characters and Vault Hunters and what we know so far
- Andor embraces podracing with an Easter egg that calls back to a Star Wars Episode 1 video game from 1999
- New Lego sets in May 2025, from a Star Wars avalanche to an awesome Mario Kart tribute
- Forget Amazon gaming week, these sub-$1,000 gaming PC deals at Walmart are perfect for first-time buyers
- 125GB!? Oblivion Remastered is a storage killer, but these SSD deals are here to help
- Nintendo makes a big change to the eShop ahead of Switch 2, pushing down shovelware but potentially hurting good indies too
- Star Wars actor's new movie with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score gets new trailer – and it looks like a mix between Perks of Being a Wallflower and Frances Ha
- $80 Switch 2 and now Xbox games aren't a big shock, analyst says, and games haven't really been $70 for a while: "The average price people are paying ... is much higher"
- I tried to become a sewer-dwelling rat boy in Oblivion Remastered, but please move past that because I just realized I've been playing Oblivion wrong for 15 years
- To mark 27 years of the DC character, James Gunn shares BTS look at Mr Terrific’s big screen debut in Superman
- Former Bethesda designer says the studio's infamous loading screens are "a necessary bane" of how it makes RPGs, whether you're playing Oblivion Remastered, Starfield, or Skyrim
- Hollow Knight: Silksong is going to be "playable" at an Australian museum in September, but nobody knows what that means for the release date
- "Nothing has changed" with the new game from Nier Automata leads that might be Nier 3, producer says, and it might even be announced in 2027 if they're still "alive by then"
- An Xbox Series X now costs $600 as Microsoft raises prices on hardware, with "some" first-party games also jumping to $80 this year
- House of the Dragon star’s Netflix show with perfect Rotten Tomatoes score has been renewed for season 2 amid cancellation rumors
- Retro remake dev calls Switch 2 game-key cards "disheartening," says you'd hope a company as big as Nintendo "would take preservation a little more seriously"
- Bethesda giving out Oblivion Remastered keys to Skyblivion modders is "exactly what I'd like to see more of," says CEO of retro remaster studio as devs reflect on game preservation
- Hyper-rare Pokemon Journey Together Elite Trainer Box is back in stock, and it's for a normal price
- Blizzard says it isn't using AI-generated voices in Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4, a bug just accidentally left "robotic temp voices" in the RPG
- A sequel to the Road House reboot starring Jake Gyllenhaal will be directed by Guy Ritchie
- T-Force A440 Lite 2TB review: "Kept its cool under strain"
- Solo Leveling season 3 doesn't sound like a guarantee as producers ask fans for "energy" to "help make it happen"
- Chris Hemsworth marks the start of Avengers: Doomsday filming in the most Thor way possible
- After playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on PS5 for 12 hours, I'm convinced it's the small details that make this an adventure for the history books
- Baldur's Gate 3 is done with updates, but it's still getting hotfixes - a new one says "it's only fair" drunk monk kills "count toward the Punch Drunk achievement"
- Game of Thrones star Kit Harington recalls a "humiliating" moment on set when Bella Ramsey helped him with his lines: "Oh god, I’ve got to up my game"
- After more than 4 years, Fortnite is coming back to iOS in the US, and Epic has a "peace proposal" for Apple which could see the battle royale return to the App Store worldwide
- Call of Duty High Art event and rewards explained
- At 174 seconds, Thunderbolts features the longest Marvel movie post-credits scene
- Gearbox boss doubles down on Borderlands 4's new release date being unrelated to GTA 6, insists he has no "insider information" despite working under Take-Two
- Thunderbolts* Easter eggs: all the Marvel references you might have missed
- Thunderbolts ending explained: Who dies? What the asterisk means? How does it set up Avengers: Doomsday?
- When does Thunderbolts take place on the Marvel timeline?
- What does the Thunderbolts* asterisk mean? The big MCU mystery unpacked with what the Marvel comics tell us
- Thunderbolts director defends "big decision" to kill off major character: "It needed a bit of shock or surprise"
- Thunderbolts post-credits scenes: how many are there and what does it mean for the future of the MCU?
- When is Thunderbolts on streaming? Speculation on the potential Disney Plus release date
- 19 years later, Todd Howard is still a secret NPC in Oblivion Remastered, and he'll call you a bastard if you piss him off
