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What’s left to do when you’re itching to return to Fallout 4, but you already know how the opening firefight in Concord plays out, and how every battle after it ends? You’re in good company. One Reddit player with over 1,000 hours logged posted the same question after running out of builds and mods to...
Techland CEO Pawel Marchewka said during a community Q&A that the studio’s earlier five-year support model for its games did not work out as planned. Under certain conditions, he said, ongoing support can hurt workflows and get in the way of making something new. Techland recently decided to end support for Dying Light: The Beast....
Clayface is based on a story by horror writer Mike Flanagan and directed by James Watkins. It is the latest entry in James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Universe, which began with Superman in 2025 and has continued somewhat unevenly since. Like 2019’s Joker, it centers on a Batman villain and leaves Batman out of...
Only weeks after Blizzard Entertainment stunned fans by unveiling Diablo 5 at BlizzCon 2026, another Diablo adventure has appeared: a “dungeon battler” called Diablo: Unbound. Glass Cannon Unplugged developed this tabletop take on the franchise and revealed it on Wednesday at Spiel Essen, the world’s biggest board game convention. Like Blizzard’s video games, Diablo: Unbound...
FromSoftware and publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment released update 1.17.2 for Elden Ring in October. The patch is available on PC (Steam), PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. The update adds no new content. It is a technical patch that fixes several bugs and makes changes to the game’s credits. One fix...
Stranger Than Heaven is the most ambitious action-adventure yet from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio. It follows protagonist Makoto Daito across five Japanese cities and five decades. After a half-day preview session, I left impressed by the richly detailed urban environments and by how convincingly the game portrays a society in flux. Still, I’ve played most...
Rebel Wolves and Bandai Namco Entertainment will soon release a big update for the vampire action RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker, and it will calm down the game’s boars. The developers have already shared some details about the update and have now addressed this one sore point. At launch, players ran into almost the same...
Filming has wrapped on Amazon’s upcoming Life is Strange adaptation, and the show has now received a strong endorsement from the staff of the original game. Michel Koch, co-creator and director of the 2015 game, recently visited the set. He had only glowing things to say about the new take on the story. “This month,...
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards held at Dolby Theatre on March 26, 2026, in Los Angeles. Christopher Polk/Billboard Jason Kelce startled Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce early one morning with a call for a “f–ked up” reason, according to the latest episode of New Heights, posted Wednesday (Oct. 21)....
EA to Cut Around 400 Jobs and Close BioWare, the Studio Behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age Electronic Arts is preparing another wave of layoffs that will remove about 400 positions, according to a new report from Bloomberg. As part of the restructuring, the publisher will also shut down BioWare, its longtime role-playing game developer....
