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fromKotaku
1 day ago

Fan Catches First Glimpse Of Alex Garland's Elden Ring Movie

Footage of Alex Garland's upcoming movie set has surfaced online, raising questions about its authenticity and hinting at imminent production announcements.
fromKotaku
1 day ago

The Mass Effect TV Show Is Having Problems With Non-Gamers

Peter Friedlander has requested that the scripts for the upcoming TV series be rewritten to appeal to 'non-gamers,' which has upset some Mass Effect fans. However, production for the series is reportedly 'on the verge' of starting.
Television
#life-is-strange
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Life Is Strange: Reunion review a decade-long story comes to an impassioned close

Life Is Strange: Reunion explores the enduring bond between Max and Chloe, now adults, amidst new challenges and a potential disaster at Caledon University.
Video games
fromKotaku
4 days ago

Life Is Strange: Reunion: The Kotaku Review - Kotaku

Life Is Strange: Reunion aims to resonate with fans of the original series, but not all players feel included in that vision.
fromKotaku
2 days ago

Uncharted Fans Think A New One May Be On The Way After Instagram Post

A six-week-old Instagram post from Shaun Escayg, featuring a cannon and the word 'Research,' has sparked speculation about a return to the Uncharted series. The post's vibe reminds fans of the Panama segments in Uncharted 4, leading to excitement about a potential new game.
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fromLGBTQ Nation
2 days ago

HBO's "The Last of Us" isn't just a trans representation failure. It's a huge step backwards. - LGBTQ Nation

Casting a cis woman as Lev in The Last of Us undermines trans representation and authenticity in media.
Board games
fromKotaku
2 days ago

Puzzle Spy International Deserves To Be Played By Way More People

Puzzle Spy International offers a collection of 11 engaging puzzles with a light story, ideal for solo or cooperative play.
Games
fromKotaku
3 days ago

How To Finish Big Open World Games Like Crimson Desert

Focusing on one open-world game at a time enhances motivation and progress, making it easier to complete them.
fromGameSpot
2 days ago

It's A Shame Rockstar Won't Make A Red Dead Movie, Jack Black Says

Jack Black stated, "It would be, like, too easy to make them into great movies," expressing his belief that the cinematic nature of the games lends itself well to film adaptations.
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Philosophy
fromApaonline
1 week ago

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Aesthetics and Video Games

Video games possess unique aesthetic value that challenges traditional philosophical frameworks of games and fiction.
Video games
fromGameSpot
2 days ago

GTA 6 Will Likely Borrow Ideas From Red Dead Redemption 2, Former Rockstar Dev Says

GTA 6 is expected to incorporate ideas from Red Dead Redemption 2, as previous Rockstar games have done.
Games
fromInverse
3 days ago

The Biggest RPG Phenomenon Of The 2020s Is Coming To TV

Dungeon Crawler Carl is being adapted into a TV series, marking a significant moment for the LitRPG genre and its mainstream acceptance.
Writing
fromPolygon.com
1 week ago

This new crime thriller brings a haunting, video game-inspired edge to NYC noir

The novel is inspired by horror and mystery, set in 1990s New York, following a Polish immigrant's dark journey.
fromGameSpot
2 days ago

State of Decay 3 Is Back From The Dead, And You Might Be Able To Play It Soon

"If scavenging supplies in the middle of a zombie outbreak sounds fun to you, then grab your ruck, pack some mags, and register for a chance to be included in the alpha," State of Decay co-creator Brant Fitzgerald said, while adding that there will be more opportunities throughout the year to test out the game.
Video games
fromThe Atlantic
4 days ago

Today's Atlantic Trivia: Video Games

Nintendo was founded in 1889, the same year the Eiffel Tower opened in Paris, starting as a manufacturer of Japanese playing cards.
Games
fromEngadget
4 days ago

An immersive 'Black Mirror Experience' is launching in Montreal

The Black Mirror Experience is an interactive virtual reality experience that blends physical space and VR, designed to blur the lines of fiction and reality in which you become the main character.
Television
#shinji-mikami
Games
fromKotaku
5 days ago

Nier Cosmic Horror Teased On Worst Day Possible

April Fools' Day in Japan sees video game companies teasing projects, with Yoko Taro hinting at a new NieR project.
fromGadgets 360
3 days ago

Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann Seemingly Teases the Last of Us Part 3

"Cleaning out the garage today and stumbled on my original sketches from 2003 for a game pitch about a man, his surrogate daughter, and a trek across a broken America. Been a wild journey. Grateful for every part of it, especially the few stops that remain on the road ahead."
Video games
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fromEngadget
6 days ago

BOXROOM lets you build a cozy game room for your Steam library

Customize a virtual space to showcase your game library with personalized furniture and game displays.
Board games
fromMedium
3 weeks ago

Are games really "dumbing down"?

The Elder Scrolls evolved from a struggling franchise after failed games Battlespire and Redguard into one of gaming's most influential RPG series.
fromKotaku
1 week ago

I Can't Stop Playing This Terrible Game, So Maybe It's Good?

Timber Rush is about numbers going up in the crudest way imaginable, a clicker game that barely even features clicking, in which you move your woodcutter side to side as increasing numbers of increasingly silly logs fly around the screen.
Games
#control-resonant
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fromGameSpot
1 month ago

Control Resonant Gameplay Preview: Doing The Unexpected With The Familiar

Control Resonant draws primary inspiration from its predecessor Control, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and InFamous: Second Son, following protagonist Dylan Faden as he navigates supernatural threats while searching for his sister Jesse.
Video games
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Control 2 Devs Respond To 'Focus, M' Meme Comparisons

Remedy defends Control Resonant's dialogue quality, stating the State of Play footage showed isolated conversations and placeholder dialogue from a much longer game experience.
fromEngadget
1 month ago
Video games

The first Control Resonant gameplay trailer shows Dylan defying physics in a sideways NYC

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fromGameSpot
1 month ago

Control Resonant Gameplay Preview: Doing The Unexpected With The Familiar

Control Resonant draws primary inspiration from its predecessor Control, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and InFamous: Second Son, following protagonist Dylan Faden as he navigates supernatural threats while searching for his sister Jesse.
Video games
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Control 2 Devs Respond To 'Focus, M' Meme Comparisons

Remedy defends Control Resonant's dialogue quality, stating the State of Play footage showed isolated conversations and placeholder dialogue from a much longer game experience.
fromEngadget
1 month ago
Video games

The first Control Resonant gameplay trailer shows Dylan defying physics in a sideways NYC

#resident-evil
Video games
fromVG247
4 days ago

Resident Evil fans have adopted a Love & Deepspace character as the son of Leon S. Kennedy and one of his potential spouses

Fans of Resident Evil Requiem have developed an interest in Love and Deepspace, particularly due to the character Zayne.
Video games
fromVG247
4 days ago

Resident Evil fans have adopted a Love & Deepspace character as the son of Leon S. Kennedy and one of his potential spouses

Fans of Resident Evil Requiem have developed an interest in Love and Deepspace, particularly due to the character Zayne.
Video games
fromKotaku
5 days ago

Neil Druckman Won't Stop Teasing The Last Of Us Part 3

Naughty Dog is hinting at a potential third game in The Last of Us series, despite mixed signals from Neil Druckmann.
fromKotaku
6 days ago

The Story Behind A Massive GTA 4 Leak 18 Years After Launch

The dev kit and its beta files represent one of the biggest GTA IV leaks ever, providing fans with a firsthand look at all sorts of stuff never before seen or only spotted in early screenshots.
Video games
Video games
fromKotaku
6 days ago

Crimson Desert Voice Actor Had To Fight For His Character's Story

The game's chaotic development led to inconsistent direction and frequent changes in plot and character details during the recording process.
Television
fromInverse
1 month ago

This Time-Bending Video Game Adaptation Has One Crucial Problem

Life is Strange, a decision-based narrative game, is being adapted into a live-action series by Amazon Prime Studios with Tatum Grace Hopkins and Maisy Stella cast as protagonists Max and Chloe.
Video games
fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

16 Short Stories Prove Marathon Is One Of 2026's Best Games

Marathon's high-stakes, cutthroat design creates unforgettable moments of triumph and defeat, with players forming unexpected truces and memorable encounters that extend the game's impact beyond gameplay.
Video games
fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago

Capcom's next big game explores the horrors of AI

Pragmata is a sci-fi third-person action game where players control two characters—a suited man and an android child—to explore a lunar research station and combat robots through hacking mechanics.
Video games
fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

Arc Raiders Replacing AI-Generated Voices With Human Actors

Embark Studios replaced AI-generated voice lines in Arc Raiders with real human-recorded dialogue after launch, acknowledging superior quality of professional actors over AI text-to-speech.
Books
fromArs Technica
2 months ago

TR-49 is interactive fiction for fans of deep research rabbit holes

Research notes in a cataloged database reveal interlinked authors, hidden computer commands, and an unfolding narrative converging on a metaphysical search and encroaching threat.
Video games
fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

Former God Of War Writer Says Sex Mini-Games Were 'Worked On By Women' And Should Return In Remake

God of War's sex mini-games were developed largely by women and should return in remakes; a former writer defends them as character-defining and respectful, while a PlayStation-themed Lego set leaks and AI-generated guides face criticism.
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Video games
fromEngadget
3 weeks ago

A Resident Evil Requiem story expansion is in the works

Capcom is developing a story expansion for Resident Evil Requiem alongside a photo mode and mini-game, with the expansion requiring patience before release.
Video games
fromEngadget
3 weeks ago

A Resident Evil Requiem story expansion is in the works

Capcom is developing a story expansion for Resident Evil Requiem alongside a photo mode and mini-game, with the expansion requiring patience before release.
Video games
fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

Resident Evil Requiem Confronts The Past To Save The Future

Resident Evil confronts its accumulated lore and iconography to break free from its past, using the literal disease of Raccoon City Syndrome to represent the franchise's inability to escape its foundational event.
Film
fromIndieWire
2 months ago

'Iron Lung' Review: Markiplier's Slow Burn Video Game Adaptation Offers a Fascinating, Flawed Experiment

Iron Lung demands endurance and patience, delivering a claustrophobic, faithful game adaptation that rewards immersion but risks overwhelming younger audiences.
fromKotaku
4 weeks ago

Something Cool Just Happened In Marathon

When Marathon launched on Thursday, you could find switched-off computer terminals that looked a lot like the ones found in Bungie's original classic Marathon trilogy released back in the '90s. Back in the day, these terminals provided text logs that told the story of. They often took the form of different AI chatting with the player or providing new missions. Most often, players communicated with the psychotic but intelligent AI Durandal, the OG trilogy's main villain (?), who famously wanted to escape the inevitable collapse of the universe so as to become immortal.
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fromInverse
2 months ago

Clancy Brown? What 'Fallout's Latest Twist Means for the Finale

The Enclave is revealed as the major antagonist manipulating events and responsible for creating Super-Mutants and corrupting institutions.
fromVulture
2 months ago

Fallout Lets the Boys Fight

If the first four episodes of sometimes felt meandering, indulgent, lost in the Wasteland's desert, then the showdown between House and Coop in the fifth episode, "The Wrangler," comes as a thrilling course correction. The fantastically acted duel between Walton Goggins and Justin Theroux rearranges Fallout's chessboard and makes it feel like the series is finally pushing itself in a new direction regarding what we do, or don't, know about how the U.S. stumbled into a nuclear holocaust.
Television
Video games
fromGameSpot
1 month ago

Resident Evil Requiem Endings Explained - How To Get All Endings

Resident Evil Requiem features multiple endings determined by player choice at a critical decision point regarding Elpis, with the destruction ending resulting in Leon's death and being classified as the bad ending.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Pieced Together review poignant narrative game gathers bittersweet fragments of a friendship

Through the ingenious medium of an interactive scrapbook, we play as Connie, glueing in photos, notes and memories of her friend after years of separation. The game begins with several attempts to write Connie a letter, before we cut-out, stick and sort the story of their lives together.
Video games
Video games
fromGadgets 360
1 month ago

Multiple Assassin's Creed and Far Cry Games in the Works, Ubisoft Confirms

Vantage Studios is developing multiple Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six titles, including several Assassin's Creed games and two Far Cry projects.
fromGameSpot
1 month ago

The Best Co-Op Story Games With Great Tales To Tell

Famous as a series of uncompromising multiplayer JRPG greatness, our one pic from the whole franchise has to be Tales of Vesperia. The game blends classic JRPG storytelling with fast-paced, real-time combat that works surprisingly well in co-op. The story follows Yuri Lowell, a former knight who takes justice into his own hands in a world powered by magical technology.
Video games
Video games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Ubisoft's Avatar Game Is So Much Better Than Fire And Ash - Kotaku

Ubisoft’s Frontiers of Pandora becomes much more enjoyable after a poor opening, offering compelling exploration, improved mechanics, and a richer late-game experience.
fromInverse
2 months ago

The Best Character of 2026 Is Totally Unexpected

Trails Beyond the Horizon's new character, Ulrika, is like staring into the abyss of a broken TikTok algorithm, and while my knee-jerk reaction might have been shock and even a little disdain, over the next 100 hours, I grew to find the character's bit surprisingly genuine and, admittedly, hilarious. What first felt like a gimmick grew to become one of my absolute favorite parts of the game, enhancing the already distinct personality of the Trails games.
Video games
#video-games
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Dev Doesn't Just Want To Be People-Pleaser With Next Game

Creatively, we've always let our North Star be our own personal taste in terms of what we think is cool--what it is we enjoy and want to see. I've seen too many TV shows and books be swayed trying to please a lot of people, and in the process you end up losing the heart of what's there,
Video games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

The MindsEye Publishing Car Wreck Ends With No Hitman Mission

What this means for the future of , once pitched as the first building block in an ambitious open-world metaverse , is currently unclear. But apparently the mission, the shooter's highest-profile bit of upcoming content, is canceled. Build a Rocket Boy and IO Interactive didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. The most surprising part of Insider Gaming 's report is that Build a Rocket Boy was apparently the one pushing to end the ill-fated partnership, a decision influenced by the 's "desire to bring its publishing in-house and gain more control over its future."
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Video games
fromEngadget
1 month ago

A Neva prequel is arriving next week

Neva: Prologue is a standalone DLC prequel where Alba meets a wolf cub, adding new locations, mechanics, enemies, bosses, and hidden challenges; releases February 19.
Video games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Cyberpunk 2 Dev Explains The Beauty Of First-Person Storytelling

First-person perspective in Cyberpunk 2077 enhances immersion by aligning narrative subjectivity with a body-decay, consciousness-transfer story and avatar-like player identity.
Video games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Ron Perlman Got '$40 And A Sandwich' For Fallout's Iconic Line

Ron Perlman narrated Fallout's iconic opening, never played the games, received minimal payment for the first recording, and has not appeared in the TV adaptation.
fromEngadget
1 month ago

Layers of 3 revealed via a mysterious trailer and poem

The new chapter will include not only a game but a novel and music, the company said in a press release. The developer revealed the new IP via a live-action teaser, with an actor reading lines from William Blake's poem, The Sick Rose. A painting then fell from the wall, and the actor then turned over an hourglass with red sand, with a tagline stating "The door won't stay closed."
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fromKotaku
2 months ago

Split Fiction's Director Dishes On Clair Obscur, EA, And Gen AI

The games industry must preserve diversity across AAA, AA, and indie projects rather than converging solely on perceived 'safe' AA successes.
Video games
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

New Silent Hill game inspired by tiny fishing village in Fife

Silent Hill: Townfall recreates St Monans in a detailed horror game by Glasgow studio Screen Burn, bringing a small Fife fishing village to millions virtually.
Video games
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

This Week's Episode Of Fallout Paid Tribute To The Series' Best DLC

Fallout episode brings New Vegas arrival, Brotherhood conflict, Vault 31 crisis, and multiple game-referential easter eggs tied to Operation: Anchorage, T-45 armor, and Buffout.
Video games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Escape From Tarkov's Nasty Ending Will Troll Fans Even Harder

Escape from Tarkov's Terminal end-game enforces a tougher, limited-capacity escape that can force squad members to be left behind and receive bad endings.
Video games
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Files Flat Out Explain All Its Naming References And Meanings

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 asset files include detailed name explanations, etymologies, and Wikipedia links revealing the meanings and origins of characters and enemies.
Video games
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Here Are The Best Detective Games To Check Out

Industry layoffs and studio closures coincide with major game updates, gameplay impressions, character trailers, and recommendations including Steam Detective Fest deals and free PC games.
fromGame Informer
28 years ago

An Oral History Of Fallout, Part I: The Creation

That was a skill-based RPG system that I was looking for that could simulate real-world things, because most things were fantasy or science fiction, but there was "lockpick" or "climb walls" or "Uzi," you know, "machine guns," that sort of thing. So, I gravitated towards that system and we licensed it, and that was the genesis of Wasteland. Wasteland, to me, is what set the imprint in terms of innovation, such as grey morality and non-linear gameplay.
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fromInverse
2 months ago

Ron Perlman? 'Fallout's Shocking Cameo Just Revealed A Huge Mutant Easter Egg

Fallout Season 2 integrates game lore and introduces a Super Mutant allied with ghouls, connecting TV characters back into the games.
Video games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

It's Not Too Late To Save Beloved Gaming Franchises

License dormant AAA franchises to proven mid-size AA teams and allow development without publisher interference to revive them affordably.
Video games
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Kojima Talked About Making A Metal Gear FPS With Zampella

Vince Zampella's influence and leadership shaped major studios and franchises, prompting industry tributes at DICE after his tragic death.
Video games
fromwww.gamespot.com
2 months ago

Romeo Is A Deadman Feels Like Grasshopper Manufacture Is Leaving Nothing On The Cutting Room Floor

Grasshopper Manufacture's upcoming action game launches Feb 11, 2026 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X and emphasizes a punk, high-energy design.
Video games
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Split Fiction Director Defends EA, Saying "Everybody's Done Something That's Not Good"

Electronic Arts faces intense consumer criticism, yet Hazelight's Josef Fares defends EA, citing respectful employees and a strong, profitable partnership despite industry-wide mistakes.
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