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Molasses Merged | The Witcher spin-off Project Sirius is "going to be an amazing game, one for the books", former design director says as CD Projekt properly absorbs The Molasses Flood

"I cannot wait until the rest of the world learns about what we've been working on."

April 9, 2025 Mark Warren

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The Yuck Yuck 3000 | Switch 2 cartridges will taste terrible we're afraid, which shouldn't be too big a deal unless the economy gets really bad

Doesn't matter if you suck it down or nibble at the edges, Switch 2 carts won't taste good.

April 8, 2025 Connor Makar

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Circuit Breaker | Following a weekend of tariff tension, Japanese video game industry sees stock price tumble - Sony, Nintendo, Capcom and more impacted

A dark day for the Japanese economy has hit gaming hard, with all major developers and publishers dripped red after a day of trading.

April 7, 2025 Connor Makar

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DUN DUN, DUN | The next "fresh" James Bond film has begun filming in London, all while the identity of Mr Bond remains a tightly held secret

Announced at Cinemacon in Las Vegas, Amazon MGM has spilled the beans on the status of the next James Bond film.

April 3, 2025 Connor Makar

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Net A Good One | The best Netflix games to play in 2025

All of these essential games are included as part of your Netflix subscription, and they're all great.

April 2, 2025 James Billcliffe

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Slap On Venaconda | Yep, Marvel Rivals' twerking Venom emote is actually real and his rapidly undulating "tactical distraction" tush is making some matches, er, pretty interesting

"Thought I was the main character...then Venom started throwing it back..."

April 1, 2025 Mark Warren

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Phwoar | Assuming we're not being goofed on, Marvel Rivals is making Venom jiggle his symbiussy next week in celebration of April Fools' day

Well, at least NetEase and the game's modding community are finally on the same page.

March 28, 2025 Mark Warren

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Time To Meditate | The Witcher 4's long path to release won't conclude until 2027 at the earliest, CD Projekt says, but there's a chance we could get Witchermon Go to help tide us over

Stop the car, there's a gang of drowners over by that corner shop that I need to kill.

March 26, 2025 Mark Warren

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Augmented Growth | With The Witcher 4 now properly on the way, Cyberpunk 2077 just powered CD Projekt to the best financial results it's ever recorded for a year without any big releases

Naturally, the publisher's teasing that it's got plenty of Cyberpunk stuff "in store" going forwards, including a MacOS port.

March 25, 2025 Mark Warren

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Stronger together | The United Video Game Workers union has been revealed at GDC and already it's gaining members

The UVA enters the space in the midst of continued industry layoffs.

March 20, 2025 Connor Makar

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Rising Tide | Anyone mourning the poignant, meaningful feeling from Team Ico needs to check out Flow, the Oscar-winning film that beat Inside Out 2 and The Wild Robot

“We are all in the same boat and must overcome our differences to find ways to work together” feels very apt in 2025.

March 19, 2025 Dom Peppiatt

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Lore Dumped | An MCU-esque "Marvel Gaming Universe" was once a thing we could have gotten, had Disney's execs decided it was worth putting cash into

"That was so frustrating because we came up with all these great ideas about how to do it."

March 19, 2025 Mark Warren

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Build-A-Battlefield | I’ve watched enough leaked Battlefield Labs gameplay to convince me that Battlefield is finally getting this one fundamental thing right, at least

DICE and all the other teams currently working on the next Battlefield are, finally, building on what came before.

March 10, 2025 Sherif Saed

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Grab the popcorn. | A 10-minute Death Stranding 2 trailer has just dropped at SXSW, and it proves yet again that no one does trailers like Kojima

In addition, a release date! Death Stranding 2 is coming out on June 26, 2025.

March 9, 2025 Connor Makar

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Page Turner | Want to know what Geralt of Rivia was like as a moody teenager? The latest entry in The Witcher books will show you just that in English later this year

A good thing to have while you wait for The Witcher 4.

Feb. 28, 2025 Oisin Kuhnke

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Yep, Same Model | Sorry, internet weirdos, The Witcher 4's director has confirmed that Ciri's face hasn't been "modified" since that first reveal trailer

"This variation is a natural part of the game development process."

Feb. 28, 2025 Mark Warren

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Legendary | Chris Pratt seemingly confirms Star-Lord will be back soon, as far too many MCU characters face oblivion with post-credits scenes going nowhere

Part of the lucky ones.

Feb. 27, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Poke-Motion | Pokemon Concierge is returning to Netflix in September 2025 with all-new episodes, and season 1's available for free on YouTube for a limited time

A second dose of cuteness overload.

Feb. 27, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Old Friends | Andrew Garfield didn't believe Charlie Cox was in Spider-Man: No Way Home, so they risked recognition by hanging out near the set in Atlanta

No on-screen Spider-Man and Daredevil team-up yet though.

Feb. 27, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Imperfect Storm | Twisters losing its final kiss wasn't Steven Spielberg's fault, and the director says you should blame test audiences instead

Romanticism is dead.

Feb. 27, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Raided | Netflix's big Tom Hardy-led action movie, Havoc, comes from the director of The Raid, and its first teaser trailer looks brutal

The violence in this one won't be clean, I can tell you that.

Feb. 27, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Long Way Home | It turns out that Ellen Ripley was in Alien: Romulus all along according to director Fede Álvarez, but it sounds like overcomplicated nonsense

Just leave her alone, man.

Feb. 27, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Poopting The Finger | Fallout gave Ella Purnell a "poop finger", and she's worried that being cast because of it "would be one of the worst things to happen to me"

To be fair, there can't be a million other roles requiring you to be a fake nine-fingered Nancy.

Feb. 26, 2025 Mark Warren

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Silver Sword Screen | Making The Witcher 4's reveal trailer took a speech Geralt might have given, 14 days of actors fighting pipes, and three days with a real flower hat-wearer running around a forest

"There are these nuances that we really wanted to take care of and to make it feel really like a movie."

Feb. 26, 2025 Mark Warren

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Drift King | Why did Blizzard bring “hectic and chaotic” drifting in custom cars to World of Warcraft? I don’t know, but it’s the game’s most fun feature in years

In World of Warcraft's big update - Undermine(d) - expect a lot of fast cars and disastrous wipeouts.

Feb. 26, 2025 Connor Makar

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Totally Logical | Things at NetEase sound worse than previously thought, as its CEO apparently considered cancelling the immensely successful Marvel Rivals at one point just because he didn't want to pay for licensing fees

The game just hit 40 million players this week.

Feb. 22, 2025 Oisin Kuhnke

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James Slop | Amazon MGM Studios now has full creative control of the James Bond franchise, and you're almost certainly gonna get those spinoffs that you didn't ask for

Can't wait for the Young James Bond Adventures.

Feb. 20, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Bad Blood | Alien: Romulus director Fede Álvarez knows how he'd like to approach an Alien vs. Predator movie, but it'd be a hard trick to pull off

Secrets are a thing of the past.

Feb. 20, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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More Titans | The next Godzilla x Kong movie recruits Unbroken's Jack O'Connell, who's joining newcomer Kaitlyn Dever and kaiju dentist Dan Stevens

Titans will be back in roughly two years.

Feb. 20, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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New Combos | The new Street Fighter live-action movie we keep forgetting about has landed a new director of Eric Andre Show fame

Sure, why the hell not.

Feb. 20, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Gunn Reload | DC Studios' Sgt. Rock movie adaptation has lost Daniel Craig, but Luca Guadagnino is still planning to shoot it this year

As weird as it sounds, this one appears to be happening for sure.

Feb. 20, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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It's Joelver | The Last of Us has finally locked down its April release date on Max, and the episode count has been confirmed too

A shorter but probably more intense ride.

Feb. 20, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Marvelous Numbers | Marvel Rivals has blown past 40 million players already, more than the population of Poland

It also saw a spike with the season 1 update, which is a good sign!

Feb. 20, 2025 Connor Makar

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Layoffs | Marvel Rivals US developers laid off despite having helped make a big hit, as NetEase says it's "investing more, not less, into the evolution and growth of this game"

Publisher says cutting jobs from its US Rivals team was a "difficult decision" designed to "to optimize development efficiency for the game".

Feb. 19, 2025 Mark Warren

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Rivalry Ignited | Overwatch 2 director says its devs are feeling the pressure since Marvel Rivals took off doing Overwatchy things in not quite Overwatchy fashion

"This is no longer about playing it safe", according to Aaron Keller.

Feb. 17, 2025 Mark Warren

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Vigilante Justice | Armie Hammer is becoming The Dark Knight for Uwe Boll, and no, that doesn't mean the Batman IP is going down the toilet again

I mean, it's already bad out there for the fallen actor.

Feb. 13, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Third Volume | The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will return for season 3 at Prime Video, and a big time jump is happening

Dark days ahead for both Middle-earth and the anti-woke crowd.

Feb. 13, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Extended Drama | HBO's The Last of Us is "likely" getting four seasons to properly adapt all the happy events from Part II, but plans aren't finished yet

No gut punch left behind.

Feb. 13, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Future Roar | Godzilla Minus One director Takashi Yamazaki confirms that a follow-up is now in pre-production and says he's got no desire to adopt AI anytime soon

Older technology and techniques still serve him just fine.

Feb. 13, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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New Investigation | You might've forgotten about True Detective season 5, but it's shooting soon and will be set in a far more familiar location

Creepy supernatural elements to be confirmed.

Feb. 13, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Response Issued | "We are not a third party looking for companies to prey on" ABK Workers Alliance responds to Bobby Kotick claiming harassment lawsuits were "fake"

"The trauma, discrimination, and abuse that our coworkers and former coworkers endured is not fake."

Feb. 13, 2025 Mark Warren

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Under Fire | The first Captain America: Brave New World reviews are here, and it's one of the lowest-rated MCU entries so far

Extensive reshoots and rewrites seem to be the least of its problems.

Feb. 13, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Never Gone | Jurassic World, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Fantastic Four all turn 10 this year, and Hollywood is mostly frozen in time and holding on to nostalgia

We've been returning to tradition for too long.

Feb. 11, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Flipped | Marvel Rivals opts for no mid season rank resets following community outcry

After announcing its initial plans, the team 180'd within 24 hours.

Feb. 11, 2025 Connor Makar

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Diminishing Returns | A new live-action/animation hybrid Smurfs movie is hitting this summer, and distinct art style aside, its first trailer feels too stale

Maybe it's time to let this IP go.

Feb. 6, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Bark If Scared | Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan to star in Bad Boy, a new serial killer horror movie from Longlegs' producers somehow told from the POV of a dog

Now this is cinema.

Feb. 6, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Longtime Friends | John Turturro pushed to cast Christopher Walken in Severance as his love interest because he's "someone you can laugh with and have fun with"

We can all agree that it paid off.

Feb. 6, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Longtime Fan | Scarlett Johansson landed Jurassic World Rebirth's lead role after chasing an opportunity for many years and being a "really crazy" Jurassic Park fan over the decades

One of us! One of us!

Feb. 6, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Into The Sunset | Harrison Ford isn't bothered by Indiana Jones 5 flopping and thinks Troy Baker's performance in The Great Circle proves AI isn't needed to "steal" his soul

At the same time, he isn't too worried about what happens in the future.

Feb. 6, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Make it Make Sense | Sony made the PSN account requirement optional with some games, so why are those games still not on sale everywhere?

In the countries that would benefit the most from Sony dropping the PlayStation Account linking requirement, we still cannot buy the very games this decision was made for.

Feb. 4, 2025 Sherif Saed

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