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Hello, everyone. As many of you noticed yesterday, the Battlefield 6 Free Trial on Steam didn’t work for every player on launch day. The root cause has now been fixed, and it’s great to see so many of you fighting across Area 51 and the Vegas Strip! So you have plenty of time to dive...

Happy weekend. Theaters have something for most tastes this week. Genre films include Street Fighter and Whalefall, and a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility brings corset romance to the movies. If you would rather stay home, plenty of options are on VOD and streaming. French auteur Luc Besson returns with a new...

I’ve started Resident Evil 2 remake more times than I can count and have never seen it through to the credits. It’s a superb game, and I enjoy it every time. Still, the cramped corridors and the constant possibility of a rotting corpse bursting out of a locker always end up pushing me away. Lately...

Every Zelda dungeon follows the same bargain: find a tool, unlock a door, then find a better tool. Plenty of games have borrowed that loop without Hyrule’s unmistakable music. Every few years one of them, like Tunic or Death’s Door, breaks through and lands on everyone’s recommendation list. This list covers the ones that usually...

Spooky season is here. Giant skeletons are sprouting on front lawns, the air is finally cold enough for a hoodie, and the Resident Evil 2, 3, and 4 remakes have arrived on Switch 2. Meanwhile, we’re all stocking up for a long winter indoors, with Grand Theft Auto VI on the horizon. The release rush...

The game will be available on PC and consoles. Publisher 4Divinity and developer Eschatology Entertainment have announced a release date for Guns of Eschaton, a mystical first-person shooter with soulslike elements set in the Wild West during the apocalypse. The game launches on December 8 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam....

The global marketing campaign for GTA 6 in Miami-Dade County was scheduled to begin in mid-October, but the launch has been delayed because negotiations are still ongoing. An unnamed Miami Beach official described the situation to Joel Franco a few days earlier. A Miami Beach city official tells me the agreement to start GTA 6...

A Team Fortress 2 update is now available. It will be applied automatically the next time you restart the game. The main changes are: Fixed several maps that were failing to record play time accurately Corrected the alpha channel on the refreshed Cozy Camper backpack image Updated cp_holyhell Fixed the BLU-side skybox not rendering for...

It’s a good weekend to be a TV fan. In recent weeks, Mike Flanagan’s Carrie remix and an anime based on an Anthony Bourdain manga finally arrived, so there’s something for most tastes. Avatar is back too. Polygon has run several articles on Seven Havens and on what the new series means for the franchise’s...

Digital Foundry found that path tracing in the updated The Witcher 3 puts so much load on the CPU that even an RTX 5090 can’t hold a stable 60 FPS without frame generation. A faster graphics card won’t fix that. The Digital Foundry team found that in some locations the CPU becomes the main performance...

Kelly Clarkson speaks onstage at the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards held at The Dolby Theatre on March 27, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Christopher Polk/Variety Two bird-themed holiday ornament sets that appeared under Kelly Clarkson’s Wayfair home collection briefly disappeared from the retailer’s site this week, in the middle of her public dispute with a...

The remaster of Telltale’s cult adventure game will get updated visuals and a noir mode. The Wolf Among Us Remastered launches on October 29, 2026. It includes updated graphics, improved audio, a noir mode, and five playable scenes that were cut from the original game. The remaster keeps the story and direction of the original...

The DLC weapons in Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave give your army a considerable edge, though they come with some trade-offs. You earn them by finishing a fresh subquest, and each of the four playable Flame Lords receives a signature weapon. Carrying those weapons into Part 2 and beyond gets a little tangled if you’ve already...

Welcome back, Officers. Halloween is almost here. While most of us are busy picking out costumes and working through mountains of candy (with the odd prank thrown in), a number of you have been crafting some tricks and treats of your own. It’s a real pleasure to show every ghoul and goblin in the community...

Tate McRae at Lollapalooza 2026 held at Grant Park on August 02, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. Victoria Sanders/Rolling Stone Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan released a remix of “Expectations” on New Music Friday. The original appears on Rodrigo’s Billboard 200-topping album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love. Billboard describes it as...

Marty O’Donnell, the composer of the Halo and Destiny series, is running for the US Congress and says he will push back against the agenda in video games under the slogan “Make Halo Great Again.” He is also urging gamers to vote for a candidate who “plays games himself.” O’Donnell led Bungie’s audio department for...