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- January 15
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- Robert De Niro is at war with Robert De Niro in trailer for new gangster thriller
- Captain America: Brave New World runtime revealed – and it's Marvel's shortest Captain America movie yet
- I'm happy the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide introduced bastions, but I wish it did more
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League ends on a whimper with a two-minute-long comic strip that renders the whole plot utterly pointless
- Nintendo is "really mad" to "the most severe level" about the Switch 2 leaks, say former PR managers: "They are very, very, very upset"
- After 17 years, Marvel pulls a surprising Iron Man character back into the MCU for the new Vision series – and fans already have some wild theories
- Hayden Christensen has paid the ultimate respect to Anakin's Clone Wars actor: "Thank you for keeping Star Wars alive"
- After shutting down the Wii U online services last year, Nintendo asks players not to use "unauthorized services" to replace them as they might pose "security risks"
- Nosferatu, Abigail, Werewolves… why is Hollywood suddenly loving monster movies again? Director of new horror Wolf Man has a theory
- After the success of Space Marine 2, the Warhammer people are "looking for the next one" as CEO says big successes in the franchise "are not a given"
- Diablo 4 season 7 all but revives the Diablo 3 class I've been wanting Blizzard to officially add since launch
- January 14
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- Behold, a Super Mario 64 player discovered that a 34-frame loop repeated 2.8 million times over 36 days can make a log drift through a cliff: "This has no currently known purpose"
- The folks behind some of the best anime-style games of the past 5 years have a cyberpunk game out this week, and it's my first must-try Metroidvania of 2025
- After 2 months of brutal Steam reviews, Assassin's Creed Origins and Valhalla patch fixes "compatibility issues" with a Windows update that made them nearly unplayable
- Marvel Rivals devs threaten keyboard and mouse adapter users with permanent bans: "On PC or console, we will take measures to vanquish this nefarious behavior"
- Marvel Rivals: 10 comics that are perfect for fans of the smash hit hero shooter
- The Sims 4 is getting "huge" base game updates for the series' 25th anniversary, including a new main menu and over 70 items
- Alien: Romulus director says he wants to "go into uncharted waters" with Ridley Scott's franchise and take it "to a place we've never been before"
- Marvel Rivals probably isn't nerfing Jeff the Shark's ultimate any time soon, but the game's director does have an "interesting tip" for avoiding it
- Lunar Remastered Collection launches this April for $50, or about $150 less than the original PS1 JRPGs would cost you in 2025
- The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2077 devs praise and support vampire RPG from former CDPR staff: "These games have shared lineage and shared values"
- Longlegs director says he's going to the "extremes," says we can expect "explosive gore" with new Stephen King adaptation: "There’s a lot of mess"
- 10 things I hope Nintendo learned from its previous consoles ahead of Switch 2
- DC's Black History Month 2025 plans will revive a long dormant super-team with Batman, Vixen, and more on board
- After packing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate with content, Masahiro Sakurai unsurprisingly says that working out a game's volume from the start is important
- New trailer drops for The Witcher anime movie revealing returning stars from the live action Netflix series
- Skyrim artist secretly worked to save the RPG's ugly werewolves from getting cut before taking a demo to Todd Howard and getting a big reaction: "This is f***ing awesome"
- Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 devs boast of a 2.2 million word script that would break Baldur's Gate 3's world record, and Larian's publishing director says "I hope they do!"
- Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 set photo reveals an important new location that might have debunked a big Easter egg from the first movie
- One small feature in the latest Cyberpunk 2077 update made me fall in love with driving through Night City all over again
- There's a Catan version of the Exit board game coming, for which I am both excited and bemused
- Dr. Stone season 4 release schedule – when is Science Future episode 2 on Crunchyroll?
- Hatsune Miku hits Fortnite, immediately steals everyone's dance moves: "This is the greatest game of all time"
- The Last of Us fans think they've worked out an exact premiere date for season 2
- Marvel Rivals will get new heroes every 6 weeks, game director says
- From what we've seen so far, it would be a bad idea to sleep on Don't Nod's Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
- Good news Sailor Moon fans, this fan-fave '90s anime series is making a comeback
- Karate Kid: Legends: Everything we know about the new Karate Kid movie
- Palworld's multi-million player launch was originally in the hands of just one server guy who was "trying his best"
- The Apothecary Diaries season 2 release schedule – when is episode 2 on Crunchyroll?
- Wolverine's 400th solo issue will "push Wendigo to the brink" and feature a "story you never thought you'd see"
- Marvel Rivals boss doubles down: "We believe no role queue will lead to a richer gaming experience for everyone"
- Wolf Man director explains why he didn't want too much werewolf lore in his new Universal Monsters horror movie
- First look at Until Dawn movie teases crucial twist that could make the horror adaptation feel just like the game – and unveils the return of an iconic character
- Fortnite Hatsune Miku: How to get the virtual pop star
- A game master's starter pack to get your first campaign going, D&D or otherwise
- Pokemon Horizons season 2 release schedule – when is The Search for Laqua on Netflix and BBC iPlayer?
- MMO legend's "spiritual sequel to Ultima Online and to Star Wars Galaxies" is getting a Kickstarter campaign "because the climate for games investment is terrible"
- Elden Ring Nightreign could be the Fortnite of Soulslikes, but probably not for the reason you think
- After unsuccessfully attempting to launch a Monster Hunter clone, this controversial dev is now supposedly releasing an Animal Crossing-like game on PS5
- With seven years between Endgame and Doomsday, Marvel fans are debating whether the wait between Avengers movies has been too long
- Horror marketing goes to the next level: Wolf Man is releasing in cinemas just days after 2025's first full moon
- New found footage horror movie is getting major attention from film buffs for the most unlikely reason – the filmmakers say it’ll never be released online
- Severance's Adam Scott brutally shoots down one of the most plausible Gemma fan theories: "That's what Lumon would be doing in a super boring version of Severance"
- Wolf Man director says he felt pressure to live up to The Invisible Man with his new horror movie: "It's an addictive drug"
- I want to call this incredible action game with a harrowing story, bloodthirsty combat, and a psychedelic fantasy world my favorite game – but it doesn’t actually exist
- Marvel fans are just finding out one of Avengers: Endgame's best lines was a last minute addition
- The release date for the first Demon Slayer finale movie may have just leaked
- Peter Jackson reveals his favorite movie in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and it's not the one you're probably expecting
- First look at Art the Clown actor as a twisted Mickey Mouse in upcoming slasher movie has horror fans divided
- Netflix just added the highest rated Walking Dead spin-off for you to binge
- After waking up to the first Sims 3 update from EA in 10 years, all fans can think about is the potential for more: "So it begins"
- Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai says he'll make a game "even if it's the opposite of what I like," because "you have to think of it as work, not entertainment"
- Stanley Tucci says his Marvel role is one of the greatest jobs he's ever had, even if he was "flattered and insulted at the same time" when cast
- One of Deadpool and Wolverine's best fight scenes has been improved by a Marvel fan with a dream and serious editing skills
- Former The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 devs reveal new Vampiric dark fantasy open-world RPG that's "the first chapter" of a "brand new role-playing saga"
- January 13
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- It's not the Switch 2, but Nintendo's got hardware news: its $100 alarm clock is coming to retail
- The sicko inside me desperately needs to play this ludicrous horror game that retells Dante’s Inferno through the power of anime girls
- New Netflix drama is climbing up the global top 10 with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score and harrowing true story
- Watch in awe as an Elden Ring master, playing with a saxophone that goes "doot," finally wrecks Malenia in 45 seconds without getting hit
- The Helltaker creator has a new free game with ghost girls instead of demon girls, and after less than a month it's got over 9,000 Steam reviews at 96% positive
- "Terraria will never die as long as there is one last final update," creator says as its 6th final update approaches at long last
- Wu-Tang Clan's ODB is your guide to the multiverse in the new Lyrical Ruckus in the City graphic novel
- PowerWash Simulator is ending support for VR, "a platform which costs us more than it makes," after just 14 months
- Fallout and RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says most players don't want games "6 times bigger than Skyrim or 8 times bigger than The Witcher 3"
- Star Adam Scott knew that Severance season 2 would get weirder, but had faith that the showrunners would steer it in the "right direction"
- Baldur's Gate 3 sleuth discovers "extremely dark" Astarion kidnapping scene that almost nobody has seen even more than a year later
- The Russo brothers said "f*** no" to directing Avengers: Secret Wars until "stumbling upon" the perfect idea: "That’s a story we need to tell"
- Metal Gear Solid Delta and Assassin's Creed Mirage reportedly coming to Nintendo Switch 2 as third-party support revs up
- Nintendo Switch 2 reveal reportedly coming this week ahead of June launch
- If you're not playing Marvel Rivals with friends, you're not getting the best of it
- Solo Leveling season 2 changes one of the darkest scenes from the original comic
- As League of Legends players blast 800-hour grinds, Riot says this "wasn't meant to get harder" and "we messed up" on the whole First Blood thing too
- "It's simply impossible": Final Fantasy 14 lead explains why the MMO's difficulty level will never be "just right" for all players
- Netflix releases new trailer for vampire anime Castlevania: Nocturne season 2 ahead of this week's release
- "It's not Escape from Tarkov," but an extraction twist gives open-world roguelike Hyper Light Breaker an edge – plus it comes with one of the best indie games of 2016
- Hideo Kojima is hard at work on Death Stranding 2, but he doesn't know how much longer he can stand the grueling game development process: "It's incredibly tough"
- With two not-so secret weapons up its sleeve, Little Nightmares 3 is shaping up to be the "charming horror" event of 2025
- Despite Marvel Rivals' mod ban, fans of the hero shooter are dropping more custom skins than ever: "Modding Marvel Rivals lives on"
- Sakamoto Days release schedule – when is episode 2 on Netflix?
- Harley Quinn season 5 review: "It's easy to forget how lucky we are to have a hilarious, queer DC show survive five seasons"
- Civilization 7's largest change is proving divisive, but it might fix sandbox strategy's biggest problem: being boring
- Streamlabs says you'll be able to change the look of its AI Twitch stream co-host, but my heebies are still jeebied
- Netflix has just dropped a new show from an award-winning director with no promotion, and viewers are loving it
- Monkey Palace: A Lego Board Game review - "Once you have wrapped your head around the rules, it can be a genuinely great time"
- Scrapped Kraven the Hunter concept art reveals Venom connection cut from the movie
- Gladiator star Djimon Hounsou says he's still struggling to make a living as an actor despite multiple blockbuster roles
- After hitting #1 at the box office, Den of Thieves 2 star O'Shea Jackson Jr. evokes Deadpool and Wolverine and says he wants to "work with Gerard Butler until he's 90"
- Sorry, an Alienware gaming handheld isn't on the way, but Dell says its looking "pretty heavily” at the space
- Helldivers 2 creative director says the studio "shouldn't" have final say on the movie as "we are not Hollywood people," but it still sounds like it'll be involved in some capacity
- How to play the Elden Ring Nightreign beta
- It might have been more than 5 years since Avengers: Endgame but I never noticed this poignant detail about Thanos' death scene
- Finspan briefly crashes Stonemaier games site in wake of massive wave of Wingspan fans
- Razer Wolverine V3 Pro review: “By far the best controller this brand has ever produced”
- Sebastian Stan teases Marvel's Thunderbolts as he compares it to an iconic '80s teen movie
- Fantastic Four's Julia Garner has perfect response to whether Silver Surfer will be live-action or CGI in the upcoming Marvel movie
- "This is devastating": After 8 years of work, CS:GO mod that aimed to revive "the 1.6 vibe" apparently rejected by Steam "without any reason," despite previous contact with Valve
- As the "incredible journey" to Baldur's Gate 3 wraps up, Larian Studios has its "full attention" on its next RPG: "The story ain't over yet"
- Tom Holland collected all the Funkos of himself as Spider-Man, but had to put them in a cupboard because it was "quite embarrassing"
- Dynasty Warriors: Origins review: "A stripped back approach champions the explosive combat's focus on visceral clashes and tactile battlefields"
- The Flash director explains why the DC movie flopped, suggesting that "a lot of people just don't care" about the character – despite one obvious counter-point
- Severance season 3 is currently being worked on as Ben Stiller reveals they already have "an end" planned for the hit Apple show
- January 12
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- AGDQ 2025's musical streak continued as a live band rocked out in sync with a chaotic 19-minute Crazy Taxi speedrun
- EA Sports College Football 25 guide for gameplay, Dynasty and more
- As Marvel Rivals bans custom skin mods, one developer with experience on "multiple live service games" explains why
- After 15 years of awesome speedrun events, Games Done Quick has raised over $54 million for charity with AGDQ 2025 bringing in $2.5 million
- “We loved making this into a goofy, irreverent, and kind of chill experience”: Wheel World celebrates bike culture with its vibey open world
- You can grab over 700 hours worth of Monster Hunter games, including Monster Hunter World, for just $24 before Wilds comes out
- "Climbing is in itself a game, with rules everybody knows": Cairn's tense, strategic ascents are making our palms sweat
- I believe these Nintendo Switch 2 design leaks, and there's one thing hyping me for the next generation
- January 11
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- Former Mass Effect veterans' new RPG Exodus puts us in the shoes of an organization that has "inspiration from the Jedi"
- Nintendo "don't like what's happening" with Switch 2 leaks, former marketing lead suspects, but it won't affect plans: "A lot of this is going to be in the rear-view mirror"
- Hyperkin's new Nintendo Switch Frieren accessories are an anime fan's dream but I have one small problem
- Den of Wolves' cyberpunk vibes are more than a gimmick, adding greater stakes and complications to the co-op heist genre
- "We don't want to just be the 'Halo meets Portal' team": Splitgate 2 wants to to evolve beyond its inspirations
- This "ultimate car-owning" and "permadeath life survival simulator" leaves early access with 77,000 Steam reviews at 94% positive
- GamesRadar's Best of CES: our 8 favorite announcements of 2025's show
- Citizen Sleeper 2 will be the last videogame in the series, while its dev focuses on making a "Citizen Sleeper tabletop game in full"
- Forget Space Marines, this might be the quintessential Warhammer 40K army set
- January 10
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- Metroid Prime 4 pre-orders locked in at a discount at Amazon 8 years ago are getting canceled as the game finally prepares for launch in 2025
- Severance creator Dan Erickson talks keeping the acclaimed show's spark alive in season 2: "It's not just that it's still there - I think it's better"
- Marvel Rivals is more popular than ever, soaring past 570K Steam players to set a new record as Season 1 launches
- The Destiny 2 dev behind Titan's game-changing Banner of War was also on its new Exotic shotgun Slayer's Fang: "I gotta live up to this, especially as my first gun"
- As Marvel Rivals booms, a former Overwatch pro is begging players to "let me move on" from the C9 meme
- Meet Elden Ring's new community hero, the Elder Lord, a 72-year-old gamer with over 700 hours and New Game+7 beaten: "It was impossible, but I did it anyway"
- The 32 greatest heist movies
- FC 25 TOTY release schedule and full Team Of The Year details
- Severance stars Patricia Arquette and Tramell Tillman explain how their characters' toxic work dynamic gets a little darker in season 2
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail helped players block stalkers, but the problem might get much worse with a backend exploit some mods are already taking advantage of
- Indie dev slams the handbrake to pivot to what might be the first match-3 Metroidvania after playtests for a “match-3 survival horror comedy RPG” shockingly fell apart
- Marvel fans have a surprising pick for the "most brilliant" villain in the MCU – and it's an underrated character
- New Skyrim lore just dropped, and it only costs $49 in the Bethesda store
- Jurassic World Rebirth release date, cast, story, and everything else you need to know
- Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin on their bittersweet new movie A Real Pain and resisting advice from "a big Hollywood director" to "make a billion dollars" with a happy ending
- 10 years later, "around 100" Witcher 3 devs are still at CD Projekt Red working on games like The Witcher 4
- Lenovo Legion Go S pre-orders are now live, but I'm waiting for the $499 SteamOS version
- If Assassin's Creed Shadows' delay means lessons have been learned from Star Wars Outlaws, I say: let Ubisoft cook
- Marvel Rivals Battle Pass explained and how to claim rewards
- It took 490 days, but the Super Mario Bros speedrun world record is now 4 frames better – and just 18 frames away from literal perfection
- New Wakandan hero Gold Tiger is the latest to join Marvel's New Champions
- I visited the set of Severance season 2 and it was a perfect, dystopian dream that serves as a reminder that "the work is mysterious and important"
- Marvel Rivals Invisible Woman guide and tutorial
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a bigger, better historical medieval RPG that could do for the Czech Republic what The Witcher has done for Poland
- Notch cancels the "Minecraft 2" he announced days prior because spiritual successors are "always kinda sad nostalgia dumps"
- Martial arts legend Donnie Yen enters talks to direct his own character's John Wick spin-off: "I think both the fans, as well as the studio, want this to happen"
- James Gunn's DC show Creature Commandos featured plenty of fantastic characters, but that finale proved The Bride is the best of them
- Manor Lords patch adds new maps and a city builder staple, bridge-building, and also makes it so "taverns realize ale isn't magic – it's just ale"
- After talking through an AGDQ Ratchet and Clank speedrun for 3 hours, trained Opera singer delivers an incredible 6-minute performance
- Steve Rogers is no more, now there is only Cap-Snake! Check out a first look at the final issue of Avengers Assemble
- GTA 6 wishlist – everything we want from the next instalment of Grand Theft Auto
- AMD explains why the Radeon RX 9070 XT was pulled from its CES 2025 keynote, but I'm still confused at its approach to RDNA 4
- 28 Years Later director Danny Boyle says the horror sequel takes a "wholly different approach" as he also reacts to fans thinking that zombie was Cillian Murphy
- With just over a week until Severance season 2 premieres, you can now catch up on season 1 for free
- Marvel Rivals Mister Fantastic guide and tutorial
- Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition looks like an incredible revival of one of the best Wii U JRPGs, but fans might be most excited about one simple thing – the larger text size
- Sorry Elden Ring sickos, the Nightreign network test only lets you play for a few short hours a day
- For the love of Lolth, please don't tell my DM smelly D&D dice exist
- Game of Thrones star is replacing the late Ray Stevenson as Baylan Skoll in Ahsoka season 2
- WWE wrestler says his Captain America: Brave New World role has been cut due to "a lot of rewrites and reshoots"
- Company behind viral Switch 2 mock-up backtracks, says its cover accessory was based on leaks as Nintendo wades in to clarify CES images are "not official"
- Baldur's Gate 3's Swen Vincke, feeling all "nostalgic," teases the "the story ain't over" for Larian Studios' "incredible journey"
- Creature Commandos star Maria Bakalova reacts to that shocking death scene from the finale: "I didn't want her to die"
- January 9
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- The Sims rival inZOI uses special Nvidia AI tech to power its characters, but this kinda just looks like regular NPC AI to me
- Welcome to Derry director reveals three-season plan for the upcoming prequel series based on Stephen King's It
- 7 years later, Monster Hunter World player finally beats the whole game without using weapons, mostly with a Street Fighter Hadoken emote dealing 13 damage at a time
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is getting New Game Plus for free after fans ripped Infinite Wealth to shreds for locking it behind DLC
- 28 Years Later won't feature Cillian Murphy, but producer says don't count him out from popping up "somewhere [down] the line"
- 6 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and more (Jan 10 - 12)
- Ubisoft "won't comment" on reports of Tencent buyout, only says it's "exploring different options" and "will inform the market if and when a transaction materializes"
- Marvel Rivals model "incredibly thankful to be able to say 'THAT'S MY ASS'" after realizing she's Sue Storm based on the curvature of her cheeks
- Jason Statham finds brand-new uses for construction tools in first action-packed trailer for The Beekeeper director's new movie co-written by Sylvester Stallone
- New Super Mario Bros Wii speedrunner gets AGDQ's standing ovation by playing the entire soundtrack on piano while beating the game with controllers strapped to his body
- Absolute Batman innovates by presenting us with a Caped Crusader who is still a work in progress
- A Lego Game Boy is on the way, and I'm losing my damn mind
- Quarter Arcades Taito Bubble Bobble review: “I’m head over heels for this adorable mini arcade homage”
- Deus Ex Adam Jensen actor responds to potential story plans for the cyberpunk RPG's canceled sequel: "Hey this would have been fun huh?"
- Fortnite Shogun's Arena: Where to find it and deal damage
- Assassin's Creed Shadows delayed yet again, this time to March 2025, amid Ubisoft's "renewed focus on gameplay quality and engaging Day-1 experiences"
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PC trailer sells the beefier version of one of 2024's greatest JRPGs with better lighting, DLSS, 120 FPS, and a crucial shot of Barret's ass
- Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is "a weird-ass postmodern riff" on the PS1 original says Sam Barlow, talking the development 15 years later
- New horror comic Dark Pyramid looks like a Lovecraftian thriller featuring "the oddest monsters and weirdest creatures"
- Kingdom Hearts 4 has been radio silent for 1,005 days, but don’t worry - Tetsuya Nomura teases he has the story planned out
- Skyrim's iconic opening was done by Starfield's quest lead, but only after he was brutally called out for "everything we're doing wrong" in front of the Bethesda team
- Daredevil: Born Again release date, trailer, plot, and cast
- I covered the RTX 4080 launch, and the RTX 5080 feels like serious GPU Deja vu
- From lo-fi mechs to little witches, and "ancient horrors beyond imagining", here are six up-and-coming Solo TRPGs to play in 2025
- Why have Nintendo trailers been flooded with water buffalo memes? Thank these Switch 2 leak enthusiasts, who I fear are losing it at this point
- Doom: The Dark Ages takes the series forward by winding the clock several centuries back
- Netflix unveils action-packed trailer for highly anticipated anime show about a retired hitman, adds Avatar: The Last Airbender and Cobra Kai stars to cast
- After its supposedly accurate Switch 2 mock-up went viral, accessory maker says it "didn't expect this much media attention" because it thought all the information had already leaked
- Xbox Developer Direct kicks off 2025 with Doom: The Dark Ages, South of Midnight, Clair Obscur, and a "surprise" fourth game
- Saving the world with a baguette? "A joke that went too far," shares Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's creative director, as we talk Final Fantasy, Persona, and more
- Razer has a new RGB-clad Steam Deck dock, but it's missing one key feature I'd include for future handhelds
- This AGDQ icon hilariously speed-dated their way across Fallout: New Vegas, romanced all 12 characters, and still beat the RPG in 40 minutes
- Wicked star wants to play Storm in the MCU and explore the X-Men character's "inner turmoil"
- Before Slow Horses season 5 is even out, Gary Oldman confirms filming is already well underway on season 6
- Fallout season 2 filming delayed due to LA fires
- Former Switch marketing lead says "as wild as these leaks are Nintendo is going to stick to their plan," not budging on Switch 2 date "no matter what"
- Introducing my friends to Project Zomboid ended in disaster, but it's given me a newfound appreciation for the best zombie survival sim around
- 15 years after it was announced, the Shadow of the Colossus film adaptation might still be made according to director – and they have a script
- Denis Villeneuve doubles down on Dune 3 being his last Dune movie, but is excited to return: "After that, it would become unhealthy"
- Hold me back, levitating D&D dice are a thing and I need them
- CD Projekt Red prepared for The Witcher 4's "vibe" by having devs old and new make a fresh quest together in The Witcher 3's next-gen update
- The Boys star's new sci-fi horror from the creators of Barbarian gets an intriguing first trailer that reveals a big twist
- Despite Nintendo's Palworld lawsuit rumbling on in the background, developer Pocketpair releases its old roguelike card game on the Switch
- Creature Commandos star Maria Bakalova talks playing evil for the first time and that dramatic finale reveal: "I've never played the villain before"
- Marvel Rivals Season 1 release date and time – here's when Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman join the hero shooter
- Creature Commandos ending explained: Who dies in the James Gunn DC series? Will there be a season 2?
- Creature Commandos finale post-credits scene explained: does James Gunn's DC series have a post-credits scene?
- Creature Commandos season 2: Everything we know so far about the return of James Gunn's DC show
- January 8
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- For just $15, you can hang out with Hatsune Miku every day at work thanks to the power of Steam's latest desktop mascot hit
- Official Marvel Rivals stats show Mantis dominates, Magik is a sleeper hit, everyone loves Jeff even if he kind of sucks, and Black Widow is in the dumpster
- After a Game Awards reveal followed by 2 years of nothing, multiplayer Transformers game canceled as devs focus on "other projects" like an open-world survival game
- The 32 greatest family animation movies that aren't Disney
- Analyst predicts Switch 2 supply will struggle with "significant early demand surge," PS5 will still end up the best-selling hardware for US in 2025
- I didn't have a fish version of Wingspan on my 2025 bingo card, but I'll take it
- Dwarf Fortress' Adventure Mode finally leaves beta on Steam this month, turning the notoriously complex strategy game into a brutal open-world roguelike RPG
- The Switch is the one console with a controller that splits in two, but these AGDQ speedrunners still cuddled up to break Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Fortnite Great Turtle: Where to find the giant turtle
- "If your cake is trash, nobody wants to eat it": At a tough time for Destiny 2, Bungie drops an Exotic mission promising vampire vibes, a cool shotgun, and a finale with bite
- Fallout lead Tim Cain wonders if "gamers know what they like" and reckons feedback is much better when it's specific and focuses on what you want
- Mecha Break, the lovechild of Armored Core and Titanfall, gets a closed beta test that you can sign up for now
- New trailer for Reacher season 3 sees the hero forced to face his haunted past – and square up to his new 7-foot teammate
- Ubisoft says it's "deeply disturbed" by abuse allegations at support studio that contributed to Assassin's Creed Shadows, Dark Souls, The Last of Us, and more
- Twitch star Shroud argues Overwatch is "absolutely a much better game" than Marvel Rivals, and "people forget" how good it was at launch: "That game took over the world"
- After 9 years staring at his face, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director's favorite character is Cloud: "I don't think there was a time that I haven't seen him in front of me"
- Imagine Infinity Nikki with a bazooka loaded with love rockets and you get this Doom Eternal-flavored shooter that’s all about killing with kindness – and guns
- PowerA Fusion Pro Wireless review: "I may now be an RG-Believer"
- Aquaman #1: Everything you need to know about Arthur Curry's new power, new mystery to solve, and his place in DC All In
- If Night City is the "main antagonist" of Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 4's Continent could easily follow suit
- James Mangold's Star Wars movie is set thousands of years in the past because he's "not interested in being handcuffed" by the massive canon
- Nexus Mods got death threats after removing Trump and Biden mods for Marvel Rivals, owner says it's been site policy for years: "It's so dumb, and these people are so dumb"
- Pokemon Go datamine finds that, yes, we're probably getting a Pokemon Presents showcase on Pokemon Day
- Every gaming laptop announced at CES 2025: all 31 rigs compared
- After Alan Wake 2 and Control, FBC: Firebreak represents a bold new frontier for Remedy: "It's time to expand the Remedy Connected Universe into shared spaces and brave something new"
- Mass Effect veterans have another Normandy-type "major hub" in their new space RPG Exodus, but this time it's an entire city
- What to expect from PlayStation in 2025: Classic games, live services, and moving beyond consoles
- This Lego PS2 design has moving internals, and it could become a reality alongside Simpsons and Jumanji kits
- The former Halo, Batman Arkham, and Doom devs' studio is "halting work" on its upcoming game to search for a new publisher to bring "creative vision to life"
- Deadlock updates will be "a little bit more spaced out" so Valve can "improve our development process," but you can expect bigger major patches when they arrive
- A classic '00s movie is getting a gender-swapped TV reboot at Disney Plus
- I'm sure Sniper Elite Resistance is great for stealth stars, but I turned it into a Nazi-blasting horde shooter and have zero regrets
- Nvidia's cloud gaming service is coming to VR headsets, but you'll only be able to play flatscreen games
- Fantastic Four star says motion-capture legend Andy Serkis helped with his performance and yes, he said that iconic Marvel catchphrase
- Where to buy RTX 5080: retailers I'd head to for pre-orders later this month
- Squid Game season 2 is on track to beat season 1 on Netflix, but it's just been knocked off the top spot by something completely different
- With everything from Helldivers to Zelda getting the big screen treatment, OG Final Fantasy 7 director would "love" for the JRPG to get another movie
- Netflix is releasing two highly anticipated new anime shows based on popular manga on the same day this week
- GTA 3 dev thought riding the train was "boring," which led to the creation of the series' cinematic camera: "The team found it surprisingly entertaining"
- I'm really hopeful that The Last of Us season 2 flips a key part of the game's story – and I think the new trailer just confirmed it
- The Batman 2 director teases "completely different" sequel, as he promises the movie's main villain will surprise DC fans
- Microsoft says it's working on "bringing the best of Xbox and Windows together" to make handheld gaming better, and it should have more to share this year
- Skeleton Crew episode 7 ends with a sinister Star Wars callback to Revenge of the Sith
- In tweaking legendary creatures D&D Monster Manual designers admit DMs don't always "want to choose the most deadly option every round"
- Nintendo still hasn't announced the Switch 2, but one accessory maker is now showing off mock-ups allegedly created using the real console
- Taron Egerton's Die Hard-style thriller is Netflix's fifth most-watched movie of all time – but the director hasn't heard about a sequel
- Monster Hunter Wilds gets a second beta test with a "returning monster from the series," but improvements from the first round "won't be ready" in time
- Wrymspan feels more complex and isolating than Wingspan, but that's just how spelunking goes
- Severance season 2 release schedule: When is episode 1 on Apple TV Plus?
- January 7
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- This dev's first Steam release, a $3 banger with 3 hours of fun, is now one of the highest-rated games of the past month at 1,639 reviews averaging 98% positive
- Diablo 4 Season 7 faces new competition: the original Diablo, which is coming to Xbox Game Pass just a week earlier
- Marvel Rivals devs know Duelists are dominant, so they're nerfing the biggest offenders and giving Cap and Venom some help in Season 1
- More layoffs reportedly hit Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League dev Rocksteady, including another cut to QA
- Severance season 2 gets a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score with first reviews calling it "remarkable, unique, and mind-bending"
- The Witcher 4's gorgeous reveal trailer was "pre-rendered" on Nvidia's $2,000 RTX 5090
- I wish I waited for this stunning Midnight Black PlayStation Portal
- Citizen Sleeper 2 is doubling down on the RPG's tabletop roots, and the new push system already has me sweating
- Lenovo makes its new Legion Go family official, and I'm fixated on the handheld maker's $499.99 "Steam Deck"
- Helldivers 2 director says the reason saluting the flag makes it go faster is that all the devs did it anyway, "so one of the coders added it as an Easter egg"
- Skyrim was 2,403 days old when The Elder Scrolls 6 trailer dropped - and now that same trailer is also 2,403 days old
- Matt Reeves says that Robert Pattinson's Batman will join the DCU only if it "makes sense"
- Solo Leveling season 2 makes it one of the highest-rated anime series in Crunchyroll history at over 400,000 reviews
- PlayStation boss says good old-fashioned consoles like PS5 are their priority, but as PC gaming grows Sony also wants to reach players elsewhere
- Squid Game season 2 has a goof like Game of Thrones's Starbucks cup error
- Assassin's Creed Shadows has "unclimbable surfaces" that force you to find physical handholds because Ubisoft wants to be "more thoughtful" about parkour
- No doubt to Nintendo's fury, you can now pre-order a Switch 2 case on Amazon, and the dock has apparently leaked too
- Shure debuts a new way to make audio recording a breeze at CES with its new MV7i mic with a built-in audio interface and I want one
- RTX 5090 vs RTX 4090: How does Nvidia's next-gen Blackwell GPU compare?
- Anime giant Crunchyroll is getting back into manga with a new reading app coming this year promising "brand-new and beloved titles"
- Who is Commander Star? Batman #156 reveals the secret identity of Gotham’s sinister new hero
- Avowed is an RPG that's both the culmination of everything Obsidian has done before, and also an evolution of it: "There's really not a whole lot of our regions that's off limits to the players"
- Atomfall isn't Rebellion's Fallout, it's something far more interesting: "We like to think of it as X-Files in the Cold War Lake District"
- Scream star runs from another serial killer in the first trailer for Valentine's Day horror movie Heart Eyes
- World of Warcraft and League of Legends MMO veteran says he saw Riot and Blizzard "seemingly abandon" approaching development "from a place of humility instead of arrogance"
- SanDisk unveils new portable storage solutions at CES to make creating on the go more a-peel-ing
- Multiple movies, including Sonic 3 and Madame Web, are ineligible for Best Picture at the Oscars this year
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has a survival horror surprise that echoes Cyberpunk: Phantom Liberty's – and I loved every second
- Marvel Rivals season 1 has "double the playable content of a regular season" and adds maps, heroes, balance changes, and more
- Severance season 2 review: "A mind-bending, emotionally charged follow-up to one of Apple TV Plus's best shows"
- Razer is releasing a budget gaming chair, and it might actually be affordable for the average player
- Get the Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle Earth board game for just $88 right now
- This new Xbox controller looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen, but it could be one of the best gamepads of 2025
- Where to buy RTX 5070: all the retailers to check when mid-range GPUs launch next month
- Florence Pugh reveals why she "can't do" roles like Midsommar again: "I’ve been broken for a long while afterwards"
- Doom: The Dark Ages gets 12 seconds of new footage as Nvidia shows off its souped-up DLSS 4 visuals
- Hideo Kojima's favorite movies of 2024 include Dune 2, body horror The Substance, and anime Look Back – as well as some deep cuts you might not have expected
- Legend in the Mist beats Discworld and Dolmenwood in Most Anticipated TTRPGs of 2025 vote
- Where to buy RTX 5090: retailers I'd pre-order Nvidia's latest graphics card at first
- Horror movie Wolf Man lands positive first reactions calling it "pulse-pounding" and "terrifying"
- Ghost of Tsushima anime adaptation is in the works from Demon Slayer studio and Star Wars Visions creatives
- Hopes that Overwatch 2 will fully return to 6v6 matches are raised as the playtest is extended thanks to "continued player interest"
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War reportedly surpasses Red Dead Redemption 2's huge development costs, with a massive $700 million budget
- MSI launches six new 18-inch gaming laptops at CES
- The Until Dawn movie will not adapt the horror game story, but feature new characters and a fresh premise
- My favorite gaming laptop announced at CES is actually a tablet - and it doesn't even have a graphics card
- A Horizon Zero Dawn movie is on the way from Sony, and it's in the "early stages" now
- Sony has just announced a Helldivers 2 film adaptation following the game's record-breaking release, but fans are saying the same thing
- Everyone is obsessed with Kaitlyn Dever's "spot on" Abby in new The Last of Us season 2 trailer
- New version of Catan is "modernizing" the board game and "updating it to today's standards"
- A new Alienware Aurora 2025 model is coming, but I'm more interested in its Area 51 sibling that takes a "DIY approach to desktops"
- Alienware Area-51 gaming laptops make a return at CES
- Razer launches new Blade 16 with Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 - but that AMD Ryzen AI CPU might do more heavy lifting
- HyperX just launched what could be the most customizable gaming mouse ever made at CES
- HP's Omen Max 16 gaming laptop has a unique cooling system I can't believe nobody thought of before
- 32 movies that inspired Star Wars
- The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 will officially burst onto the scene for a eye watering $1,999 this January
- January 6
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- Valve shuts down Steam Deck 2 speculation as AMD says it's building chips for a stronger handheld: "There is and will be no Z2 Steam Deck"
- The Metroidvania gods have spoken and answered my prayers with this horror game that looks like Majora's Mask if it let you play as an onion-headed freak
- After 12 years making custom Super Mario 64 levels, dev helps build an N64-style platformer whose demo sold me in seconds
- 26 years after he turned down The Matrix, Will Smith teases an upcoming reboot where he will star as Neo: "Wake up, Will"
- Stellar Blade was such a hit that its dev gave all employees a PS5 Pro and a roughly $3,400 bonus, and this horny action RPG isn't even on PC yet
- I'm hyped for what the new AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme will bring to handhelds, even if it doesn't power the Steam Deck 2
- The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is officially coming Q1 2025 with 16GB VRAM, but the first RDNA 4 graphics card isn't an RTX 5090 rival
- "There's always time to bone": Old School RuneScape players give a big vtuber so many dragon bones that she's nearly maxed one of the MMO's most expensive skills
- AMD is kicking off 2025 with two new Ryzen 9 X3D desktop CPUs
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford is "testing Borderlands 4 on Steam," and just wanted to check and see if you can tell
- Horror game legend Ikumi Nakamura swaps her love of gore for true romance by helping dev use custom sidequest as real-life proposal: "Moments like this remind me how lucky I am"
- Remember 3D displays? Well they're a thing again at CES thanks to the Samsung Odyssey 3D
- Marvel Rivals Season 1 kicks off this week as Eternal Night Falls sees the Fantastic Four join the Overwatch rival to put a stop to Dracula's antics
- Ex-Starfield lead looks at the open-world game boom and says "you can see Dark Souls and Elden Ring being a secondary trend: let's make third-person action combat really hard"
- Big in 2025: The 50 most anticipated upcoming video games of the year
- Getting Nintendo to approve a dark murder mystery, the first new Famicom Detective Club in 35 years, had one dev worried: "Is it alright for us to make this"
- Final Fantasy legends Nobuo Uematsu and Masayoshi Soken reunite to turn one of the greatest wrestlers ever into the ultimate final boss
- The Penguin showrunner debunks popular fan theory: "Well, I can say he's not the Scarecrow"
- Former Starfield lead says "people are fatigued" with huge games, and "I'm sorry" because "part of what happened is the success of games like Skyrim and Fallout 4"
- It's about sending a message: Elden Ring fan waits for Nightreign by no-hitting Shadow of the Erdtree's Messmer on NG+7 difficulty with a new weapon every single day
- In less than 24 hours, hit anime Solo Leveling season 2 broke its own Crunchyroll record
- Mario's iconic pipes only exist because Shigeru Miyamoto happened to see "a plastic pipe sticking out of a wall" while wandering the streets of Kyoto
- While you wait for Skyblivion, why not grab the Skyrim board game's Dawnguard expansion for less this January
- Before taking the lead on Alan Wake 2, its game director wanted Remedy to be the "European Naughty Dog" because "Naughty Dog games are f***ing awesome"
- Matt Reeves explains why The Batman 2 is delayed to 2027, but says they still want to film this year
- Nosferatu director Robert Eggers tried to make a Frankenstein movie, but gave up after two weeks: "It definitely sucked"
- Anthony Mackie crashes Marvel co-star Sebastian Stan's Golden Globe post-win interview to share the love: "Captain America and The Winter Soldier, we’re coming back!"
- Marvel Rivals looks set to get its first balance adjustments soon as a leaked schedule claims Wolverine is getting even stronger as Hela and Hawkeye get nerfed
- Squid Game star was worried he'd struggle with one of the show's most ingenious twists that you probably didn't even notice
- Exploding Kittens CEO is helping bring the Survivor reality show to tabletop, having watched "every episode of Survivor since the first season – 24 years ago"
- Bill Skarsgard thought he would play a different role in Nosferatu as Mads Mikkelsen was attached to play Count Orlok
- The Substance star Demi Moore reflects on a producer calling her a "popcorn actress" as she wins her first award in 45-year career at the Golden Globes: "I thought maybe this was it"
- James Cameron messaged Zoe Saldaña about her Golden Globes win while she was still in the audience: "He, after all these years, believes in me"
- The leaked GTA San Andreas source code is apparently fake and contains ransomware, so please don't download it
- Nintendo fans are convinced this supposed Switch 2 Joy-Con leak is real, but one piece of evidence isn't as compelling as it first seems
- The Penguin star Colin Farrell pays tribute to Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix's "extraordinary" comic book performances after winning Golden Globe
- Balatro maker promises that the dodgiest odds in the hit roguelike aren't deceiving you
- January 5
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- One wasn't enough, so here's a second Doomer Shooter "inspired by the FPS classics of the '90s" where Doom Guy is an anime girl
- BioWare fans reckon they've found evidence Mass Effect 5 is bringing back the RPG series' classic Renegade/Paragon morality
- Some weird news: Amazon begins cancelling 3DS pre-orders for the failed Mega Man successor that came out 9 years ago
- "Sony would also turn to Mercury for all their tech demos for publishers": Jeb Mayers talks us through the creation of the portable puzzler
- January 4
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- Elden Ring Nightreign is saying goodbye to FromSoftware's beloved messaging system
- Tetris some towns together in this cute city builder brought back to life by Kickstarter after the studio "had to let everyone go" last year
- Balatro creator shares the GOTY love with other indie games while giving out a "very prestigious Golden Thunk award"
- OG Minecraft creator "basically announced Minecraft 2" in the oddest way, but he won't "sneakily infringe" on Mojang's work
- "Part of the genesis of Immortality was the three years I spent making a Legacy Of Kain game that got cancelled": Sam Barlow on the making of his "interactive movie"
- FC 25 NumeroFUT guide and full cards list
- January 3
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- This slick Hades-style action roguelike with 92% positive reviews mysteriously vanished from Steam and the devs say they don't know why
- Fallout creator Tim Cain reveals two playthroughs key to the RPG's history: his low-Int hero named Potato, and a mass-murderer who made them check "the entire game" again
- Borderlands 4 studio Gearbox gave the devs custom cast iron skillets for Christmas because "we f***ing cooked"
- "Action RPGs kind of outsell classic RPGs": Fallout OG Tim Cain says AAA RPGs default to violence because it sells, so support non-violent options when you get 'em
- 2 months later, Assassin's Creed Origins is getting pounded with negative Steam reviews because the Windows update that broke it still isn't fixed
- Angelina Jolie's new movie about a world-famous opera singer is a poignant story of life in the public eye
- Perhaps forgetting his game is a loaded parody of fascism, Helldivers 2 director says, "Make good games, don't make a contemporary political statement"
- Before Nintendo hired Shigeru Miyamoto, it tried to patent the kid's toy he made and brought to his interview: "I remember thinking, 'this is a shrewd company!'"
- Less than a year after launching 2024's best live service, Helldivers 2 creative director has already started working on "the next Arrowhead game"
- The Witcher 4 NPCs will offer a "more immersive experience" than other CD Projekt games: "We are trying to push the bar here"
- Seven director David Fincher shares what was actually in the box, though he says "you don't need to see what's in the box if you have Morgan Freeman"
- Peter Parker must face the unbearable truth as The 8 Deaths of Spider-Man continues
- Goal Oriented: How do developers invent their own sports – even when they're not too fond of the real thing?
- Helldivers 2 players beat the Illuminate back but they're still freaking out citizens, so High Command wants to build a surveillance center which definitely won't be used for spying
- James Gunn says we won't see Batman's origin in the DCU: "We don't need to hear the origin story again"
- The 32 greatest Leonardo DiCaprio movies
- "6 years of work leaving the nest": Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is already making its way into the hands of reviewers, and one dev is "nervous but also excited AF"
- A Balatro crossover, GOTY nods, and near-perfect reviews propelled one of 2024's hidden gems to its highest selling day months after launch
- Creature Commandos just gave us our first look at the DCU's Gotham City – and a glimpse of Batman
- BioShock Infinite “may not have been the thing I wanted, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it wasn’t the thing the audience wanted”: Ken Levine guides us through his entire gameography
- The Squid Game season 3 release date might have been accidentally leaked – by Netflix
- Vanilla Skyrim reaches a whopping 2 billion mod downloads, surpassed only by Skyrim: Special Edition's 6.2 billion record
- 39 years after its final animated episode, cult cartoon SilverHawks is back in a new comic that writer Ed Brisson calls "The Untouchables in space"
- Enormous GTA 5 mod adds GTA 4's Liberty City as a fully functional map, with a working subway, traffic, and even the notorious swing set glitch
- David Fincher was once in talks to direct Harry Potter, but his "creepy" version didn't align with Warner Bros.' vision
- Andrew Garfield denies being signed up for Spider-Man 4, but also knows "no one’s gonna trust" him after No Way Home
- BioShock's Ken Levine calls his most iconic FPS "a very, very long corridor," but his next game Judas is "made very, very differently"
- Marvel Rivals devs lift bans on players mistakenly banned for cheating: "We do not and will not ban players who are playing fairly"
- Solo Leveling season 2 release schedule – when is episode 3 on Crunchyroll?
- January 2
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- AGDQ 2025 kicks off this weekend promising Elden Ring on a saxophone and a 6-hour Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth speedrun, but I'm tuning in for two of the worst games ever made
- The Witcher 4 has "completely new regions" and monsters, including one the game director calls a "tricky, tricky bastard" that "plays with your own fears"
- GTA 6 will double GTA 5 and make $3.2 billion in its first year, analysts say – "The pent-up demand is greater than anything we’ve seen before”
- Somehow another roguelike RPG 17 years in the making launched last year, and sitting beside Caves of Qud it's gotten 4,700 glowing Steam reviews in near-total silence
- 2025 kicks off with another live service death as Friday the 13th: The Game fans sadly twerk on its grave
- The Switch 2 news drought sent so many Nintendo fans to the page for a new AI upscaling patent that they seemingly crashed it
- Marvel Rivals officially confirms first new characters: The Fantastic Four are coming soon
- You probably missed this heartbreaking Celebrimbor detail in The Rings of Power
- Trap star Josh Hartnett is stuck on a plane full of assassins in first trailer for new action thriller from the team behind John Wick
- Minecraft experts dedicate 3 years to building Breath of the Wild's entire open-world map out of blocks: "I put everything else aside"
- Everyone Goosebumps: The Vanishing star David Schwimmer talked to about it said the same thing: "Oh my God, you have to do it"
- Goosebumps: The Vanishing's David Schwimmer explains what actually gives him goosebumps
- Borderlands 4 CEO wouldn't call the shooter an open-world, but it is the "most open and free" game Gearbox has ever made
- Undertale creator Toby Fox brings a joyous New Year's reminder: "Deltarune Chapter 3 and 4 will release this year in 2025!"
- The Making of Baldur's Gate 3: "We really wanted to make it so that even if you don't know D&D or Baldur's Gate, you would still have exciting choices as a player"
- GTA 6 will be "worth waiting for" says CEO of Rockstar owner, who teases that "we really focus on presenting something to the audience that they just haven't seen before"
- Microsoft said "'Nah'" to the Halo x Doom crossover pitched for Amazon's Secret Level, but I'm crossing my fingers for Season 2
- Helldivers 2's Killzone-inspired sniper "could maybe use some tweaking," creative director admits, but "weapons are what weapons are" and "balance doesn't matter"
- Netflix's new number 1 movie may be a Christmas thriller, but it's still topping the streamer's charts after the holidays
- Squid Game star thought the season 2 brutal cliffhanger might make the audience "angry" and "curse" the ending: "How could you end the season at that point?"
- AAA – Developers discuss the three little letters that have shaped an industry: "It's a stupid term. It's meaningless"
- After 30 years of work on Capcom's Devil May Cry and Dragon's Dogma games, director Hideaki Itsuno has already started his "new project"
- With Jason Momoa switching Aquaman for Lobo, DC fans are convinced it's perfect casting
- Black Myth: Wukong lead blames the missing Xbox port on Series S specs, months after Microsoft claimed the delay wasn't due to "platform limitations"
- GTA Online fans find a "loophole" to enable crossplay across PC and PS4, and apparently all you need is a jailbroken console, a dev copy of GTA 5, and access to a private server
- Nosferatu star Bill Skarsgård is interested in playing the Joker: "I think that would be pretty sick"
- Squid Game season 2 beats Wednesday to have Netflix's biggest ever premiere week
- With Concord in the rearview, Halo Infinite dev is glad it's still kicking "in a climate where games can be shut down with little notice"
- January 1
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- "At the time survival horror was changing. 'How action-oriented do we get?'": 16 years on, Tomm Hulett reflects on Silent Hill: Homecoming
- The Making of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth: "I thought: if we just reproduce the original game with no changes, it will feel nostalgic, but not exciting"
- Mr and Mrs Smith was one of the best shows of 2024 and the perfect limited series – let's hope season 2 lives up to it
