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The people who make movies don’t always get the credit they deserve. Carrie Fisher worked as an uncredited script doctor on the 1998 Adam Sandler movie The Wedding Singer. Quentin Tarantino did an uncredited rewrite of It’s Pat, the movie spun off from a Saturday Night Live sketch. Writers go uncredited more often than directors,...
BioWare veteran Mark Darrah, who worked on the Dragon Age franchise and Anthem, says CD Projekt RED (CDPR) is in a “really dangerous position.” CDPR is now presumed to need very large sales to start making a profit. Darrah shared his concerns about the AAA industry in an interview with Summer Eternal Anthology. He pointed...
At Amazon, Grand Theft Auto VI is trailing a Nintendo release in preorders. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Nintendo Switch 2 is ahead of the new GTA game on the retailer’s listings. Preorders for Grand Theft Auto VI are available beyond the PlayStation Store and Xbox stores. Various retailers also sell a...
There’s a well-worn saying that happiness is reality minus expectations. For the eight Switch games below, reality fell well short of what people had imagined. A few earned their harsh reception, but others aren’t bad at all. They just weren’t what fans had hoped for. We’ve ordered them by how far each one drifted from...
A police version of the Lamborghini Huracan is now driving on real roads, part of a marketing push for Grand Theft Auto VI. The release of Grand Theft Auto VI is approaching, and its marketing campaign is gradually picking up speed. Recordings recently began appearing online that show stylish cars decorated in a Vice City...
PlayStation Game Size lists the PlayStation 5 version of Phantom Blade Zero at about 134.857 GB. The wuxia action-adventure is due on PC and PlayStation 5. The game has a premium Digital Deluxe Edition, but it includes only digital extras: an artbook, a soundtrack, and the “Bloodsteel Uniform” and “Wulin Legend” sets. Phantom Blade Zero...
Minior, the meteor Pokémon, is arriving in Pokémon Go with its assortment of vibrant cores. It can only be found during real-world meteor showers. These events happen only a few times a year, so stay alert when they do. Minior also turns up more often in the evening, so keep a particularly close watch then....
A remaster of Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, rebuilt on Unreal Engine 5, will launch on December 8, 2026. Owners of the older versions will receive it for free. The overlooked game will arrive in an updated edition on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2. Owners of the PS4 and Xbox One versions can...
The Game Awards website now lists a clear eligibility deadline that lets GTA 6 compete at The Game Awards 2026. A game must be commercially available to consumers by November 21. The relatively late release date of GTA 6 had raised questions about its chances of being nominated for awards at the end of 2026....
If the current pace holds, the AnyPS5 developers will finish their work in 24 days. After that, PS5 games could run natively on PC without emulation. The developers of the AnyPS5 project have decoded 100% of the PlayStation 5’s graphics shader instructions. Their study of the console’s system libraries is 89.44% complete. At the current...
