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PlayStation’s competitor appears set to keep discs. Blogger eXtas1s points to a new Xbox job listing as evidence. This summer, Sony angered many players by announcing it was dropping discs for PlayStation games. Some players are still upset. They continue to ask the company to bring discs back in comments under its posts and trailers....

FromSoftware’s history includes plenty of cold sweat. Today the studio is known for punishing action RPGs like Dark Souls and Elden Ring, but its roots lie in games that feel like fever dreams. The darker side shows up in Kuon, a survival horror game steeped in Japanese folklore, and in Shadow Tower, a claustrophobic dungeon...

Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek recently commented on the Epic Games Store launcher update and shared his thoughts on the Epic Games Store (EGS). He also compared how the EGS and Steam teams approach developing their services. Steam’s developers put effort into social features that let players become part of a large ecosystem. Faliszek explained...

Martin Freeman, who starred in Sherlock and Fargo, has quietly married French screenwriter and producer Rachel Benaissa. A representative for the actor confirmed the news to People. According to a source, the couple wed in early 2026 but chose not to announce the ceremony publicly. The change in Freeman’s personal life came to light when...

The two main characters are presumed to have known each other for many years. The developers of Grand Theft Auto VI recently published the game’s launch trailer. Players began studying the footage, and one frame caught the attention of some observant franchise fans. At the 0:40 mark, the two lead characters, Lucia Caminos and Jason...

Quentin Tarantino has finished the screenplay for his tenth feature film, which he has previously said will be the last of his directing career. Even so, he has no plans to start production yet. Speaking on The Graham Norton Show, he said he wants to focus on a stage production first, then spend time with...

The second season of HBO’s horror series IT: Welcome to Derry will be bigger in scope than the first, and Pennywise will return in a radically different form. Showrunner Brad Caleb Kane shared the news in an interview with Deadline. He said the writers have finished roughly half of the scripts and received the production...

The developer is now focused on a new project. Former Overwatch development lead Jeff Kaplan has not returned to his old game since leaving Blizzard Entertainment. He is now working on a new project, The Legend of California. In an interview with GameSpot, he said he deliberately asks algorithms not to show him content related...

Stephen King has never been shy about his opinions. The Master of Horror has published more than 65 novels and novellas, countless short stories, and five nonfiction books since the mid-’70s. His work has been adapted into TV shows and films, and he voices complaints and praise in equal measure. One adaptation grudge towers above...

Order of the Sinking Star, the new puzzle game from Braid and The Witness creator Jonathan Blow, sold 45% better on Steam in its first week than The Witness did. That does not mean the developer will earn more. The game took about 10 years to develop, and the games industry changed a great deal...

Horror covers a lot of ground. It includes supernatural tales and stories of ordinary but twisted killers. It can lean toward romance, blend with sci-fi, or center on mystery. Everyone fears something different, so picking the most effective horror novels is hard. We turned to Goodreads, where millions of members have rated the books that...

The Wolf Among Us Remastered will launch on October 29, 2026, on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC. The Nintendo Switch version has been delayed. Telltale Games hopes the updated version will bring in a new audience ahead of The Wolf Among Us 2, which has been in development for almost ten years. A successful remaster...

Many of the best Peanuts quotes come from a character saying something accidentally brilliant. Creator Charles Schulz may have written the line to be insightful. But once the words reach his characters’ mouths, they usually say something profound without meaning to, or even noticing. Take the best line about heartbreak in the strip: “Nothing takes...

The acting talent of the lead star helped tell the story of Tommy Vercetti. In a recent interview, Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser shared his memories of working on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and of working with Ray Liotta, the actor who played Tommy: My script is terrible, and he managed to make it...

The 2020s have been exhausting, and the decade is only a little more than halfway done. A fracturing society and an increasingly surreal reality have made life feel chaotic, and the literature of the era reflects it. The last six years brought rolling global quarantines, algorithmic doomscrolling and the kind of unchecked AI acceleration that...

Players who preordered Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 can already play its single-player campaign, and the first player reviews are positive. The full release is still a few days away. Last year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 received “Mostly Negative” reviews, so some players approached the new entry with skepticism. Those who have...