• Patrick Stewart Dies At 86

    Beloved actor Patrick Stewart has died at the age of 86. The veteran of stage and screen was best known for his many years as Star Trek's Jean-Luc Picard and X-Men's Charles Xavier, though he also had notable roles in video games, including The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.This story is developing...
  • WoW: Forever Won’t Have Dead Servers

    WoW: Forever Won’t Have Dead Servers
    World of Warcraft: Forever will avoid repeating WoW Classic's mistakes and will have tools to prevent "dead" or "unsustainable" server rulesets, Blizzard said.In the past, various WoW Classic servers became "dead" over time, as players either stopped playing or transferred to other servers. Those massive drops in population had major ramifications for players left on the server being unable to find groups for raids or dungeons, as well as for the server's economy and auction house. In some extre
  • Artist With Music In GTA 6 Had No Idea About Any Of That

    Artist With Music In GTA 6 Had No Idea About Any Of That
    Cliff Richard is among the numerous famous artists who are lending their music to Rockstar's GTA 6, with Richard's classic tune "Devil Woman" appearing in the Netflix Extended Look. Richard, 86, didn't know about any of that, however, or that GTA 6 is a game and not a TV show.Speaking to The Times (via Dexerto), Richard said of the partnership with Rockstar for GTA 6: "I was told this happened!" He said his nephew's sons told him about it. "They didn't realize I could sing like that," he said.Lu
  • A PUBG TV Show Is Coming To Netflix, Starring Donald Glover

    A PUBG TV Show Is Coming To Netflix, Starring Donald Glover
    Krafton and Netflix today announced a live-action TV show based on PUBG, and it will star Emmy-winner Donald Glover. In fact, Glover will not only star, but also direct, write, and executiveproduce the show, along with his brother, Stephen Glover, as writer and executive producer.
    That's all Krafton had to say in its announcement, so it sounds like early days for the PUBG series. A PUBG animated series is on the way, too, from Castlevania's Adi Shankar.Donald Glover is no stranger to video games
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  • Ubisoft Is Pumping The Brakes On Assassin’s Creed Remakes For Now

    Ubisoft Is Pumping The Brakes On Assassin’s Creed Remakes For Now
    What's next for the Assassin's Creed franchise? Following the successful launch of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced earlier this--which sold very well--you'd imagine that Ubisoft would be looking to fast-track another remake while it continues work on future titles. That's not the case, as Ubisoft dropped a new update on all things Assassin's Creed, including confirmation that it's not currently working on any remakes."One thing we want to be transparent about today is that we currently have
  • WoW: Forever Controller Support Is A First Step To Playing The MMO On “Whatever You Want”

    WoW: Forever Controller Support Is A First Step To Playing The MMO On “Whatever You Want”
    World of Warcraft: Forever will launch with full controller support, a first for the various versions of Blizzard's longrunning PC-exclusive MMORPG. According to Blizzard, the option to play on controller is the "first leg of a journey" to make WoW playable "on whatever you want." Speaking to GamesRadar, WoW executive producer and vice president Holly Longdale said Blizzard's goal is to eventually have WoW playable "wherever you want, and, at some point, on whatever you want."The first step on
  • You All Guessed Elder Scrolls 6’s Name, And Now Here’s The Game’s Setup – Report

    You All Guessed Elder Scrolls 6’s Name, And Now Here’s The Game’s Setup – Report
    After eight years, Xbox is reportedly preparing to reintroduce The Elder Scrolls VI to the world. And this time, the game will apparently get an official subtitle: Sentinel. According to The Verge, Bethesda could reveal the full name next month in celebration of Skyrim's 15th anniversary. That's not all, though.The report states that Hammerfell will serve as the setting for Sentinel. It's a massive region that's southwest of Skyrim and probably best known for being playable in The Elder Scrolls
  • Xbox Wants To Be More Profitable Than PlayStation And Nintendo By 2030

    Xbox Wants To Be More Profitable Than PlayStation And Nintendo By 2030
    Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has an ambitious goal: not only to make Xbox more lucrative, but to surpass the profit margins of its biggest gaming rivals, Sony and Nintendo.Speaking to CNBC, Sharma said Microsoft was working to achieve this goal by mid-2030 and had a variety of plans in place, from focusing on more exclusive titles to gaining more ground in the casual games market. "We will build long-term plans for our biggest franchises across film, television, consumer products, sponsorship, live expe
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  • Xbox’s Recent Efforts Haven’t Changed Anything And The Future Remains Bleak, Expert Says

    Xbox’s Recent Efforts Haven’t Changed Anything And The Future Remains Bleak, Expert Says
    Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has undertaken a number of efforts thus far to help get the business back into a healthy place, and nothing has worked, Circana analyst Mat Piscatella says.
    He told The Game Business that based on the sales and engagement data he sees for the US gaming industry, "I'm not seeing [the moves] have any positive impact" for Xbox.The disc-to-digital program "hasn't changed their sales of new physical software trend at all," he added. Additionally, making Gears of War: E-Day exclus
  • Phantom Blade Zero Is Already Proving Its Prelaunch Hype Was No Fluke

    Phantom Blade Zero Is Already Proving Its Prelaunch Hype Was No Fluke
    Just a few hours into launch, Phantom Blade Zero is already a hit game on PC. There was considerable hype behind the game as it was estimated that it had sold 1 million units before launch, and at the time of writing, it has peaked on Steam with 723,876 concurrent players. That's an impressive start for the game, and considering that it's also available on PS5, it's likely that quite a few people are enjoying its mix of soulslike-adjacent action, fight scenes choreographed by movie legend Donnie
  • GTA 6’s Cops Will Send Dogs To Get You

    GTA 6’s Cops Will Send Dogs To Get You
    The police in GTA 6 are smarter and more capable than they were in GTA 5, and that includes the newly confirmed detail that cops can dispatch dogs to hunt you down.
    Edge Magazine recently posted a preview of the game with Rockstar's Rob Nelson playing. In one sequence, Jason and Lucia are attempting to evade police when they crash their motorcycle and try to escape on foot. However, nearby cops send out a K9 unit to assist. One of the dogs, a German Shepherd, quickly grabs Jason and pins him to
  • From Software Delays Its Switch 2 Exclusive, The Duskbloods

    From Software Delays Its Switch 2 Exclusive, The Duskbloods
    From Software has announced that its upcoming Switch 2 game The Duskbloods will not make it out on time this year--it's now scheduled for release in 2027. That's as specific as the studio got, however, so there is no telling when next year the game could be released."We apologize to players who have been kindly awaiting the release of this title and thank you for your patience and support," the studio said.From Software added that the delay will allow the studio to "further enhance" the game's c
  • Minecraft Creator Is Selling His $70 Million Beverly Hills Mansion, But There’s Something Unusual About It

    Minecraft Creator Is Selling His $70 Million Beverly Hills Mansion, But There’s Something Unusual About It
    Markus "Notch" Persson, the creator of Minecraft, is selling his Beverly Hills mansion that he bought back in 2014 for $70 million. At the time, Notch outbid Beyonce and Jay-Z for the home, and set a record for the highest price ever paid for a mansion in Beverly Hills.He recently listed the home for the same price, despite the median Los Angeles home more than doubling in value over the past decade. Notch's 22,300-square-foot estate, however, is definitely a high-end property, and the market fo
  • GTA 6 Makes A Familiar Open-World Gaming Feature Work In Its Own Way

    GTA 6 Makes A Familiar Open-World Gaming Feature Work In Its Own Way
    One feature Grand Theft Auto 6 borrows from modern-day open-world games is the ability to call a ride whenever you need it, but in true Rockstar fashion, it comes with a bit of real-life friction. It's not quite as simple as hitting a button to "even the odds" when you need to make a fast getaway.As GamesRadar's GTA 6 cover story details, you'll have the option to summon your car via a smartphone app. It won't magically appear, as the Scooter Bros. app will see a company employee drop your vehi
  • Xbox CEO Says Xbox Series X|S Is Supply Constrained, But Is It?

    Xbox CEO Says Xbox Series X|S Is Supply Constrained, But Is It?
    In the US, you can buy an Xbox Series X|S at Best Buy, Target, Walmart, and even on Xbox's own website. But Xbox CEO Asha Sharma claimed on X that "console sales remain constrained by supply" while discussing revenue decline for her division in the most recent financial quarter for Microsoft. To be clear, Sharma doesn't state in what markets or regions there are supply problems for Xbox Series X|S. Here's specifically what she stated on social media:
    "In Q1, Xbox revenue declined 2% [year over
  • GTA 6’s Landmass Is Nearly As Big As GTA 4, GTA 5, And Red Dead Redemption 2 Combined

    GTA 6’s Landmass Is Nearly As Big As GTA 4, GTA 5, And Red Dead Redemption 2 Combined
    GTA 6 has a big map, but just how big? According to Rockstar, the GTA 6 map is roughly twice the size of GTA 5's and three times the size of Red Dead Redemption 2's. The total landmass in GTA 6, however, is nearly as big as the playable maps for GTA 4, GTA 5, and Red Dead Redemption 2 combined, the developer told Edge magazine.GTA 6 is a large game in terms of its map and playable areas, but it's also dense, Rockstar says. Co-studio head Aaron Garbut said the game features an "order of magnitude
  • South Park Gives Us A First Look At GTA 6’s Most Disgusting Feature

    South Park Gives Us A First Look At GTA 6’s Most Disgusting Feature
    Did you know that you can throw dog poop at NPCs in Grand Theft Auto 6? While we've known about this feature for a while, we finally got a chance to see it in disgusting action thanks to this week's episode of South Park.
    For the last couple of weeks, the running gag in South Park--or South America, following its cheeky rebranding--is that all of society's woes will be solved once GTA 6 hits the scene, and the new episode continued that joke with an exclusive look at the game, which revealed so
  • An Iconic Piece Of Gaming Artwork Just Fetched A Princely Sum At Auction

    An Iconic Piece Of Gaming Artwork Just Fetched A Princely Sum At Auction
    If you were an arcade operator 45 years ago, your first look at a game that would change the history of the medium came in the form of a humble sales flyer. On the front was a detailed cartoon illustration that envisioned the game's premise: an ape throwing barrels down scaffolding, a terrified damsel in distress posing behind it, and a smug, mustachioed man in overalls posed to indicated that he was going to take that mad monkey down. It's among the first images of Donkey Kong, the first appear

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