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Barely a month after announcing a major post-launch patch for The Blood of Dawnwalker, developer Rebel Wolves has pushed update 1.1 live. This overhaul of the vampire RPG adds new features and system refinements. It also adds the one feature players care about most: you can now pet animals. Rebel Wolves had said update 1.1...
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil has drawn strong reviews and big audiences. It has earned rave reviews and set box office records for the long-running horror franchise. You might expect the filmmaker’s big-budget reboot to be the highest-rated Resident Evil adaptation released this year. According to IMDb, it isn’t. Another adaptation currently scores higher. It’s a...
The release date is still set for December 17, 2027. Filming on Avengers: Secret Wars will begin in February 2027, according to insider Daniel Richtman. The premiere remains scheduled for December 17 of that year. If the report is accurate, Marvel would have only about ten months to produce the film. That is a tight...
ONE YEAR AND FIVE MILLION DISPATCHERS LATER… Exactly one year ago today, you punched in for your first episode of Dispatch. Since then, more than five million players have joined the roster, a number that still leaves us a little dazed. First things first: thank you. 💙 Now hold on tight: we have plenty to...
The bonuses and discounts below are active in GTA Online through October 28. Contents Changes Profitability Activities Exclusive Rewards Podium Vehicle LS Car Meet Showrooms Discounts Gun Van Challenges Other Bonuses Changes Salvage Yard Robbery Targets: Albany Fränken Stange — The Cargo Ship Robbery. Ocelot Virtue — The Duggan Robbery. Vapid Caracara 4×4 — The...
Amazon has ordered a second season of Mike Flanagan’s Carrie. The horror series, based on Stephen King’s novel, will continue on Prime Video after a strong debut for its first season, Variety reports. Summer H. Howell stars as Carrie White. Flanagan serves as writer and showrunner, and Stephen King is an executive producer. The first...
Sega hasn’t put out a new mainline Sonic the Hedgehog game since 2022’s polarizing “open-zone” adventure, Sonic Frontiers. Since then, fans have mostly had remakes and remasters, plus a surprisingly excellent spin-off in last year’s Sonic Racing Crossworlds. 2026 marks the franchise’s 35th anniversary, yet it has been a fairly quiet year for the blue...
Dispatch, last year’s superhero workplace comedy, turns one year old today. The game arrived in episodes, and its first batch landed on October 22. Critics and players welcomed it warmly. They praised the performances of a star-studded cast, among them Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul. It also filled a gap that Telltale Games left in...
Even if you haven’t read the books, you’ve probably heard of Dungeon Crawler Carl. Matt Dinniman’s LitRPG series has become a cultural juggernaut, and it keeps growing. LitRPG is a genre defined by its use of video game and tabletop RPG mechanics. Besides a television adaptation, the series is now getting a comic book. Variety...
When word of BioWare’s closure spread, fans were left puzzled. Mass Effect 5 was unveiled back in 2020, so how could it still be in “early” development five years later? A brief clip, reportedly from the project, surfaced online the following day. It appears to shed light on how far along the game really was....
