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Magic: The Gathering’s Final Fantasy crossover is already the top-selling set in Wizards of the Coast’s history, before it’s even come out
Magic: The Gathering's Final Fantasy sales numbers confirm one fact: the people (me) want their Sephiroth
June 12, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Weeks after Fortnite returned to the App Store, Marvel Snap is defying Apple by announcing their own in-game shop - and a new promo code to celebrate
The fallout from Epic vs Apple is already being felt, as Marvel Snap is using their own in-game store for the first time
June 12, 2025
Trent Cannon
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The Nintendo Switch 2 has sold more units in the first week than the Switch did in its first month
With 3.5 million units sold, the Switch 2 has become Nintendo's fastest-selling console ever - and there isn't even a new Mario game for it yet.
June 11, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Almost a year and one weird Darth Vader AI clone in Fortnite later, the SAG-AFTRA voice actor strike may soon be coming to an end
Video game voice actors have been on strike since July 2024, specifically over the use of AI in video games. Now, a tentative agreement with video game companies has been reached.
June 11, 2025
Trent Cannon
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All 52 esports teams participating in Marvel Rivals Ignite tournament across all four regions has been confirmed
Teams are competing for a share of the $3 million prize fund up for grabs in the first Marvel Rivals esports tournament.
June 11, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Nintendo just announced a spin-off to Splatoon - and a Switch 2 upgrade for Splatoon 3 - in the most Nintendo way possible
Guess we better actually pay attention to the Nintendo Today! app now, huh?
June 10, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Among Us meets The Traitors in Square Enix's new murder mystery game Killer Inn
We love the social deduction aspects of Among Us, but we can't wait for every argument to descend into a shoot out when we finally play Killer Inn.
June 09, 2025
Trent Cannon
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New cozy-horror game Fractured Bloom looks like Harvest Moon and Silent Hill had a terrifying anime baby
A little Doki Doki Literature Club and The Stanley Parable got mixed in and we can't wait to play it
June 09, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Legend of Zelda movie jumps from 2027 Godzilla clash into the void left by Marvel's Avengers: Secret Wars
There's a new date for Sony's The Legend of Zelda, and fans should be excited about the shift
June 09, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Psychonauts developer Double Fine's new game is about a sentient lighthouse and we can't wait to play it
Keeper is out in October 2025 and brings that Double Fine look to another weird concept, instantly making it one of our most anticipated games of the year
June 09, 2025
Trent Cannon
Features
The biggest hurdle to the Switch 2 isn't the high price of the console or games - it is the success of the Switch [Gamify My Life]
When the Switch launched in 2017, Nintendo had a library of great Wii U games that no one played that they could port over. The Switch 2 has a slightly different problem.
June 09, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Just like the MCU, the key to Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls was Dragon Ball FighterZ studio Arc System Works getting Iron Man just right
Giving us an Iron Man with some Gundam influences seems so obvious in hindsight. Of course that is what got Marvel excited for the new fighting game.
June 06, 2025
Trent Cannon
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MTG x FF gets meta as the Magic: The Gathering card game is crossing over with Final Fantasy's own trading card game
In case you didn't know, Final Fantasy has its OWN trading card game, and Magic: The Gathering is releasing two new promo cards that tie into it
June 05, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Love Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time but hate the camera? Good news! A patch is on its way this June
Level-5 CEO confirmed the patch is in the works for Fantasy Life i and will be rolled out to consoles and PC in the coming weeks.
June 05, 2025
Trent Cannon
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We're hoping the PlayStation James Bond game from IO Interactive is a bit more Hitman than GoldenEye
Sony's State of Play at Summer Game Fest 2025 showed off some gameplay for 007: First Light and we're hoping it feels like Agent 47 with some charm.
June 05, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Arc System Works didn't think they were up to making Marvel Token Fighting Souls when Sony suggested it - but the first footage proves them wrong
"Can our company really handle this?" was the first response from Marvel Token Fighting Souls producer when he was pitched the game by a friend at PlayStation.
June 05, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Hit horror game Phasmophobia is headed for the big screen, courtesy of Five Nights at Freddy's studio Blumhouse
The movie will be co-produced by Blumhouse, James Wan's Atomic Monster, and the company that publishes the Phasmophobia game itself
June 04, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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The most expensive cards in the MTG x Final Fantasy set are Traveling Chocobos and a Rhystic Study variant
Hold on to your butts (or your Chocobo?), because the prices on the secondary market for the Magic: The Gathering Final Fantasy cards are nuts
June 03, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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You were right: Minecraft the Game changed because of the reaction to Minecraft the Movie
Word is still out on if Jack Black's song for Steve's Lava Chicken will ever be part of a future update to Minecraft, but it wouldn't surprise us
June 03, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Expect more 'Chicken Jockey' moments in movies. At least, if traditional brands start taking advice from Minecraft
Did you come out of A Minecraft Movie feeling a little unprepared for the references? Better get used to that feeling, oh casual gamer
June 03, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Discover (or Rediscover!) the origins of the Critical Role's Mighty Nein before Amazon's Prime Video TV series in a new boxed set coming this fall
The upcoming Mighty Nein Origins Boxed Set collects eight hardcover graphic novels revealing the backstory of fan-favorite Critical Role characters, celebrating the series' 10th anniversary
June 03, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Play a game that's about selling people games with Knight Fever Games' Tabletop Game Shop Sim
Yes, you can manage your own wargaming minis store with the Tabletop Game Shop Sim, which even allows you to host a game night within your virtual store
June 03, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Kaiju No. 8 The Game hits 300k pre-registrations ahead of season 2's release date on Crunchyroll this summer
No release date for Kaiju No. 8 The Game has been confirmed but we suspect it will be this summer while the anime is still airing.
June 03, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Marvel Rivals unleashes a brutal looking Wolverine skin this week based on the iconic Weapon X costume
Jeff the Land Shark is also getting a much less bloody skin in Marvel Rivals this week, proving that all things must be in perfect balance.
June 03, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Following Baldur's Gate 3's success, the next Dungeons & Dragons video game has been announced - but Wizards of the Coast couldn't get Larian Studios to do it
Giant Skull was founded by the director of the Star Wars Jedi series and God of War III, so it seems like the follow-up to Baldur's Gate 3 is going to be more action focused than we might expect.
June 03, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Want to know why the Five Nights at Freddy's movie worked so well? The "fanatically passionate" Scott Cawthorn, according to Blumhouse
Jason Blum knows that a successful horror movie is all about collaboration, and that without the collaboration of Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon, the Blumhouse adaptation wouldn't have been the same
June 03, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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A new Marvel game is in development to replace EA's cancelled Black Panther project
The original agreement between EA and Marvel was to develop three games and both sides intend to honor that, despite EA pulling the plug on Black Panther.
June 03, 2025
Trent Cannon
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A pair of Pokémon card robberies in Detroit see hammer-wielding criminals make off with thousands of dollars in collectible cards
Not sure if they got the memo that Team Rocket were the bad guys in Pokémon.
June 03, 2025
Trent Cannon
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There's an AI currently playing Pokémon Red on Twitch - and it only has 3 badges after almost 150 hours
At this rate, AI will never surpass humanity in the arena of capturing pokémon and forcing them to fight for our amusement.
June 02, 2025
Trent Cannon
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The next Dimension 20 season could look a lot like Twilight (with a side of Paul Bunyan) as Dropout's Brennan Lee Mulligan explains his adventure wishlist
Ahead of the debut of Dimension 20 season 26, Cloudward, Ho, Brennan casts his DM eye to the future of where the Dropout actual play series could go next
June 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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My best game of 2025 so far is a relaxing game about running a purgatory tea shop called Wanderstop [Gamify My Life]
I bought Wanderstop to relax and run my own tea shop, but I fell in love with the existential crisis it gave me.
June 02, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Hasbro is letting other companies bring back classic boardgames - so what's next after 1970s icon Mastermind?
Hasbro's classic game Mastermind will now be manufactured and distributed by Goliath Games
May 30, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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A Fantasy High lead will die in Dimension 20's Hollywood Bowl show, says DM Brennan Lee Mulligan
It's the Battle at the Bowl, the Rumble in the Chungle, and by the end of the live show, one of the Fantasy High characters that Dimension 20 fans have fallen in love with will no longer be with us
May 30, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon knew that fans needed to hear the right music in the movie to know they were being heard - and the Living Tombstone are grateful he did
The Living Tombstone's Sam Haft and Yoav Landau say their music made it into the Five Nights at Freddy's film due to Cawthon's loyalty, even when the film adaptation was switching studios
May 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Sliding into your DMs: Dimension 20 creator Brennan Lee Mulligan gets chatty ahead of Fantasy High and its Hollywood Bowl debut
Ahead of D20's Battle at the Bowl and Cloudward, Ho premiere, Dropout star and Worlds Beyond Number host Brennan Lee Mulligan sat down with us to discuss, among other things, a chicken fillet with googly eyes
May 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Now you can own Final Fantasy VII’s Buster Sword in a new space-saving format: a Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair card
Cloud Strife's Buster Sword is one of the most iconic weapons in Final Fantasy, and it's now been immortalized in a new Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair set
May 29, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Red Dead Redemption’s Western genre has helped gamer families bond, says voice actor Roger Clark
At C2E2 2025, Roger Clark revealed a touching dimension to the popularity of the Red Dead Redemption franchise
May 29, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Red Dead Redemption’s Roger Clark stole the boots he wore to play Arthur Morgan in the second installment of the series
When asked at C2E2 2025 if he had taken anything from the set of Red Dead Redemption 2, Roger Clark said he couldn't part with Arthur Morgan's boots
May 29, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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The boss of the company behind Assassin's Creed wants the game industry to stop taking layoffs personally: "There’s a maturity that we need to find within our workforce"
For context, this comes from the same director that oversaw the closure of one UK studio for Ubisoft and layoffs at another just this year alone
May 28, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Red Dead Redemption 2 has a secret reference to a classic Western movie
Roger Clark, who played Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2, revealed at C2E2 that a Shane reference was snuck into the game
May 28, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Blizzard has lots of plans for World of Warcraft's Housing, but it's more than just their version of Animal Crossing?
World of Warcraft's Housing gives players an unprecedented creative outlet within the game - not unlike Animal Crossing
May 27, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Marvel Rivals developer sends a host of heroes into the Dream Dimension with a June 2025 release date for new game Marvel Mystic Mayhem
You can pre-register now for Marvel Mystic Mayhem so you can get started building your team of heroes as soon as the game is released.
May 27, 2025
Trent Cannon
Features
SpoilersThe Last of Us season 2 ending explained, what will happen in season 3, and why we think there's a season 4 ahead [Lore Corner]
What happened to Ellie, Dina, Abby & the rest in The Last of Us season 2 finale? We're going to tell you everything, so don't proceed unless you're ok with spoilers
May 26, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Nintendo hasn't cared about graphics as much as others since the Game Boy and that is why the Switch was such a success [Gamify My Life]
Nintendo hasn't tried to compete with Sony or Microsoft in terms of graphical power and the Switch 2 will be no different.
May 26, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau's Marvel Snap variants are some of the most popular in the hit game - and he hopes to someday get paid for the game using it
The cover artist isn't sore about his art being included in Marvel Snap, though he'd like to get a cut from the sales.
May 25, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Pokémon convention offers $100 upsell, with one of the perks being a better restroom
The "Premiere Access" package at Go Fest: Jersey City, the next official Pokémon convention, will also unlock in-game items and provide fans access to a special lounge
May 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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A24 knows Elden Ring fans want intensity, so they've tapped their most intense director - Warfare's Alex Garland
Garland, who also tackled thrillers Annihilation, Ex Machina, and Civil War, is not new to gaming, having written a cancelled Halo script in 2005 and supervised the 2014 Devil May Cry reboot
May 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role series Candela Obscura and Daggerheart share a "scarring" mechanic, say the developers
Fans of the horror game/miniseries Candela Obscura know that you don't always walk away from terrors unscathed. According to Spenser Starke and Rowan Hall, that's a truth that newcomers to Daggerheart will also learn
May 21, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Monopoly is making a kid-friendly version (with no cash, no counting, and based on an app, because why not?)
By removing all the math and counting aspects of the game, we're left with the true heart of any Monopoly game - mindless spending.
May 21, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Minecraft's Jason Momoa and WWE champion Roman Reigns might be Legendary and Capcom's new Street Fighter stars
Jason Momoa and Roman Reigns are amongst the actors reportedly close to signing on for the upcoming cinematic reboot of fan-favorite fighting game Street Fighter
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Fortnite is back on the US Apple App Store after nearly 5 years, following a court ruling in favor of publisher Epic Games
Apple and Epic Games have been locked in an antitrust battle stemming from Apple's high fees for in-app purchases and restrictions on third-party apps in Fortnite.
May 21, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Remember the fantastical & the failures of SEGA's Dreamcast
Sega created the PS2 before the PS2 with its Dreamcast - but that wasn't enough to avoid the death of Sega's console dreams. Here is that story.
May 21, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Critical Role star Matt Mercer's Daggerheart "never could have" been made without the game's subreddit community, say developers
To the many members of the r/Daggerheart subreddit, developers Rowan Hall and Spenser Stark would like to say "thank you"
May 20, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Marvel Rivals announces new skins for Scarlet Witch and Adam Warlock will be available later this week
We know when the Immortal Sovereign Scarlet Witch and Immortal Avatar Adam Warlock Skins are coming to Marvel Rivals, though we don't know how much they will cost.
May 20, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Elden Ring Nightreign fixes my biggest problem with the original and all the Soulsborne games - my overthinking and analysis paralysis
I am very acquainted with the bonfire of Elden Ring.
May 20, 2025
Carl Waldron
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Ahead of the Final Fantasy crossover, WoTC staff spent time “hanging out” with Square Enix staff playing Magic: The Gathering
The folks from Wizards of the Coast and Square Enix genuinely have a mutual appreciation for Magic: The Gathering
May 19, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Lore Corner: HBO's The Last of Us season 2 rewrites Pearl Jam history, but it works
The Last of Us Part II players know that Pearl Jam's Future Days plays an important role in the game, but there's something you should know about how it was worked into the show
May 19, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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Hear your favorite video game music as you never have before with the Level Up! Vocal Ensemble from ECCC '25
Level Up! Vocal Ensemble: A Video Game Music Concert was filmed live at Emerald City Comic Con's Pine Stage. Put some headphones in and have a listen now
May 19, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Fortnite is facing potential federal censure over its new AI Darth Vader, after the Screen Actors Guild lodge an official complaint
SAG-AFTRA has filed an official unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board over the conversational AI Darth Vader now appearing in Fortnite
May 19, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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An unused gun hidden in Doom: The Dark Ages code seems to give some hints about what the first batch of DLC will be
Fans of Doom: The Dark Ages may be headed to the Cosmic Realm in some upcoming DLC, according to a mostly finished gun in the game's code
May 19, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Gamify My Life: The most important part of The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion was always the bugs and I'm glad the Remaster kept them in
If the game isn't straining under the weight of the developers' ambition, it wouldn't be Oblivion.
May 19, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Shadow Labyrinth release date: The dark and gritty reboot of Pac-Man we all were fascinated by in Prime Video's Secret Level is coming this summer
Shadow Labyrinth is out for most consoles, including the Nintendo Switch 2, in June 2025.
May 19, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Death Stranding 2: On the Beach release date: Hideo Kojima and Norman Reedus are back in the post-apocalyptic sequel we've all be waiting for
Rumors of a Death Stranding sequel have been out almost as long as the first game, so fans have been waiting since 2019 to dive back into Kojima's unique world.
May 19, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic release date: Travel back to where it all began with the FNAF prequel
Set in 1979, Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic is the first game in the series' ever-expanding timeline.
May 19, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Dune: Awakening release date: Head to an alternate Dune timeline and try to survive on the harsh world of Arakis in this survival MMO
The game comes out in June 2025, but fans who purchase the Dune: Awakening Deluxe Edition can play five days earlier.
May 19, 2025
Trent Cannon
Guides
F1 25 release date: The latest entry in EA's high speed racing franchise is about to pass you at a high speed
The third entry in the Braking Point storyline is probably the most exciting part of F1 25.
May 19, 2025
Trent Cannon
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James Tynion IV & Michael Walsh's Exquisite Corpses is gamifying a battle royale murder party - and it makes me want to play the game (if they make one!)
It's Clue meets Magic: The Gathering in the killer comic Exquisite Corpses
May 19, 2025
Carl Waldron
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Lore Corner: Who are the Seraphites? The Last of Us season 2 sets up a major big bad for season 3
Who are those cultists from The Last of Us season 2, episode 5, and what do those scars mean? Let's talk about the Seraphites
May 16, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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Bungie gets caught stealing artwork for the fourth time, this time in the upcoming game Marathon
Halo developer Bungie says it "immediately investigated a concern regarding unauthorized use of artist decals in Marathon."
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Watch NowWatch as Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2 stars Roger Clark (Arthur Morgan) & Rob Weithoff (John Marston) saddle up one more time for a reunion from Chicago's C2E2 2025
It was high noon in Chicago as Roger Clark and Rob Weithoff came to C2E2 for the Outlaws for Life panel. But if you weren't fast enough on the draw, you can still see the whole thing here
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The GTA 6 budget isn't as crazy as you think, as Take-Two Interactive CEO explains why it makes sense
Sure, $1 billion sounds like a lot of money to you or I, but we're not in charge of a company that stands to make all of that money back and then some within a week of GTA 6's release.
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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GTA games aren't released slowly - fans are showing they want more DLC content than new games quicker says Take-Two Interactive CEO
Some fans might be complaining about the wait for the next Grand Theft Auto game, but they're ignoring how much GTA content gets dropped as DLCs or GTA Online updates
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Can David Leitch finally start up the Gears of War? After 18 years of development hell, the secret co-director of John Wick has been tapped to helm Netflix's big budget adaptation
Surviving Sera is nothing to getting the Gears of War movie made, but it looks like the film has finally found its Hammer of Dawn in John Wick's co-director, David Leitch
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Why movie adaptations of video games work now (and why they didn't before) according to Sonic the Hedgehog movie franchise's producers
Story Kitchen's Dmitri M Johnson & Mike Goldberg point to a classic example of a video game movie gone wrong to illustrate the disparity between gaming adaptations now and then
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Switch 2 will be more welcoming than any Nintendo system before in terms of AAA mature games, according to Witcher & Cyberpunk creators
The makers of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher games believes that Nintendo's Switch 2 will open up more expansive gaming on the go
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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The Sydney Sweeney Split Fiction movie is just one of several Hazelight games being developed into film & TV
According to Split Fiction producers Story Kitchen, the team behind Sonic the Hedgehog, development has already begun on an It Takes Two movie, and the door is open for more adaptations
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Nintendo slaps an unofficial Super Smash Bros. dating app with a cease-and-desist before its launch
A Super Smash Bros.-oriented dating app called Smash Together didn't even make it to launch day before Nintendo struck it down
May 16, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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The Pokémon Fossil Museum is traveling outside Japan for the first time as it comes to Chicago in May 2026
See fossils from the fictional Pokémon world next to the iconic Sue the T-Rex in one of the most unique museum displays on the planet.
May 15, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Bandai have announced the first tournament event for their Gundam trading card game will take place at Gen Con 2025
Just one week after the official launch of the Gundam TCG, the First Combat series of tournament events will take place.
May 15, 2025
Trent Cannon
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I'm not proud, but I couldn't stay awake during PAX East 2025's World of Warcraft panel - and I wasn't alone
Staying awake at the World of Warcraft panel at PAX East was an uphill battle
May 15, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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The Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has the entire gaming industry scrambling to react, with some weighing up delays of their own
Bloomberg reports that the industry is entering into a weird 4D chess scenario as companies weigh up delaying their games to avoid Grand Theft Auto's eventual release.
May 14, 2025
Trent Cannon
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How Dead by Daylights can create their own version of the game with Choose Your Own Chapter
Announced at PAX East 2025, Dead by Daylight's Choose Your Own Chapter takes community feedback in gaming to a new level entirely
May 14, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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What makes Mafia: The Old Country the "best looking Mafia" game yet? The seamless transitions between cutscene and gameplay, say the devs
The Mafia: The Old Country devs want to make a game that feels like a movie, and at PAX East 2025, they told us how they were going about it
May 14, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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One of my favorite bits of Final Fantasy is the tiered magic system - and Wizards of the Coast figured out a novel way to do it in Magic: The Gathering
Cure, Cura, Curaga... Fire, Fira, Firaga... how the tiered magic system of Final Fantasy made its way into Magic: The Gathering.
May 14, 2025
Chris Arrant
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The Final Fantasy 10 laughing scene meme has turned into a cardboard classic with Magic: The Gathering crossover
Remember Tidus's weird laugh in Final Fantasy X? There's a Magic: The Gathering card for that now
May 13, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Every new Marvel Snap card and location being added during the May 2025 X-Men season
Let's go back to school and add some of the lesser-known mutants from the Marvel universe to your Marvel Snap deck.
May 13, 2025
Trent Cannon
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The first Stranger Things game has been stripped from Steam, and now users are saying its basically unplayable
Has Stranger Things 3: The Game been banished to the Upside Down as part of Netflix's new gaming push?
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy set has been in development for 4 years - and MTG's creators enjoyed FF XVI like fans to get a genuine feel for it
The sleepless weekend inside Wizards of the Coast offices (and employees' households) when Final Fantasy XVI was released.
May 12, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Experience Critical Role's Age of Umbra actual play earlier than expected with special Session Zero coming May 22
Session zero will see Critical Role's Ashley Johnson, Laura Bailey, Liam O’Brien, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, Taliesin Jaffe, and Travis Willingham create their Daggerheart characters with GM Matthew Mercer
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
The Alexandria RPG Library at PAX East connected me to the tabletop games of yore
The Alexandria RPG Library is a massive collection of out-of-print TTRPG books, and I went nuts at PAX East over them
May 12, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Dead by Daylight's Five Nights at Freddy's map changes the killer queue forever
Not only will Dead by Daylight soon introduce Five Nights at Freddy's Springtrap - it will also add a Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria map AND a gaming mechanic for which fans at PAX East 2025 went wild
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Driving century-old cars, talking to local historians, learning Sicilian swears - How Mafia: The Old Country's devs brought the game back in time
I'm just saying, I don't know of a Mario Kart dev team that ever got behind the wheel like the Mafia: The Old Country folks did
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
HANK: Drowning on Dry Land is Batman: The Animated Series, if Batman could manipulate time and was always drunk
Playing HANK: Drowning on Dry Land at PAX East 2025 brought me back to a beloved part of my childhood, while giving me something I haven't seen in gaming before now
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Shadow Labyrinth star Swordsman No. 8 almost had a Pac-Man head, reveals Bandai Namco producer
Look, if you're formatting the gaming world's silliest character, Pac-Man, into the grimdark world of Shadow Labyrinth, some of the transition is bound to be a little funny
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Catch up on all of Popverse's PAX East 2025 coverage!
We were at the four-day Boston gaming event from start to finish, and we want to tell you all about it
May 12, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Carnies on Consoles: A shocking personal realization from PAX East 2025 concerning the connection between spectacles from ye olden days and now
Talk about "geek" culture! Get it? Because PAX East and carnivals both... nevermind
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Get ready, player one: PAX East 2026 dates are here
You don't know games until you come to PAX East - and we have its 2026 dates
May 11, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Upend your ideas of what a "cozy game" is with this political indie game about post-colonial Southeast Asia
Compensation Not Guaranteed by Toge Productions is a gorgeous and hard-hitting look at post-colonial governments in Southeast Asia
May 11, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Prepare for a new kind of Chocobo Racing that even Post Malone might play, as the Golden Chocobo will be the ultra-rare card in the upcoming Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy set
There are said to be only 77 Golden Chocobo cards in existence. If you find one, let me know.
May 11, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Here's what you need to know about Mafia: The Old Country's new feature: Knife combat
Expect Mafia: The Old Country to have a lot less shoot-outs than previous games in the franchise, but a whole bunch more backstabs. Literally and figuratively
May 11, 2025
Grant DeArmitt