• The Seance of Blake Manor, has an unmissable demo out but not for long

    The Seance of Blake Manor, has an unmissable demo out but not for long
    Supernatural murder mystery puzzler, The Seance of Blake Manor, has an unmissable demo out but only for a few short days.
  • PS5 Controller Holiday Deals - Last Chance To Save On Limited Edition DualSense

    PS5 Controller Holiday Deals - Last Chance To Save On Limited Edition DualSense
    Icon Blue Limited Edition DualSense PS5 Controller$64 (was $85) | Walmart Exclusive See at Walmart PlayStation's 2025 holiday sale is winding down, with deals on games and accessories ending December 18 at 11:59 PM PT. PS5 console deals will still be available through December 24, but if you want an extra controller or two, the clock is ticking to save $20 on PlayStation 5 DualSense Controllers. As of December 17, several of the Limited Edition DualSense Controllers are sold out, but you can sti
  • Get All 5 Mad Max Films On 4K Blu-Ray For Under $50

    Get All 5 Mad Max Films On 4K Blu-Ray For Under $50
    Mad Max 5-Film Collection (4K Blu-ray)$49.49 (was $80) See at AmazonNothing beats finding a freshly wrapped 4K Blu-ray box set under the Christmas tree, and if you're looking to spoil someone who enjoys "Ozsploitation" movies, then check out this limited-time deal on the entire Mad Max film saga. This 4K Blu-ray bundle launched for $100 last year, but it's now discounted to its lowest price yet at $49.49 on Amazon. It also comes with digital copies of all five movies. This is an awesome deal on
  • Hogwarts Legacy Just Did Something Only A Small Group Of Games Ever Have

    Hogwarts Legacy Just Did Something Only A Small Group Of Games Ever Have
    The Harry Potter game Hogwarts Legacy has now sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, making it among the best-selling games of all time.Warner Bros. Games made the announcement today, December 17, amid its parent company Warner Bros. Discovery's sale to Netflix, or Paramount. At 40 million sales, the game is a smash hit, but not quite close enough to break into the top 10 best-selling games ever. Hogwarts Legacy was developed by Avalanche Software and published by Warner Bros. Games through
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  • The Game Awards Reaches New Viewership Milestone In 2025, Higher Than Super Bowl Numbers

    The Game Awards Reaches New Viewership Milestone In 2025, Higher Than Super Bowl Numbers
    The Game Awards had another strong year in 2025, with host and organizer Geoff Keighley announcing today that the show reached 171 million global livestreams. That's up 11% from 154 million in 2024 and makes the 2025 show the "most watched TGA in history."Keighley also states that conversations about TGA on X were up 12% and that the show had 23,000 co-streams across Twitch and YouTube, which was up 50% year-over-year. The new streaming viewership numbers do not count views on Prime Video, Varie
  • Meta Quest 3S VR Headset Drops To $250, Includes $50 Amazon Gift Card

    Meta Quest 3S VR Headset Drops To $250, Includes $50 Amazon Gift Card
    Meta Quest 3S 128GB: Gorilla Tag Bundle + $50 Amazon Credit$250 (was $300) | Amazon Exclusive Get deal at Amazon Meta Quest 3S 256GB: Batman Bundle + $49 Amazon Credit$349 (was $400) Get deal at Amazon The Meta Quest 3S 128GB model is back on sale for its Black Friday price. For a limited time, you can get the best entry-level VR headset for $250 (was $300) and get a free $50 Amazon credit to spend on a future transaction. Simply click "redeem" on the store page or enter promo code QUEST3S50 at
  • Silent Hill F Producer Hints At Future Sequels Set Outside Of US

    Silent Hill F Producer Hints At Future Sequels Set Outside Of US
    Earlier this year, Silent Hill f became the first game in the series to ditch the small American town that the series was named for in favor of setting it in Japan decades earlier. That approach may be used again for future titles in the franchise, according to developer Motoi Okamoto."We believe we could perhaps take similar approaches with other cultures across the globe," Okamoto told Inverse through a translator. "For example, in Central or South America, we could perhaps tap into the more l
  • Call Of Duty Is Crossing Over With Fallout TV Show In Season 1 Reloaded

    Call Of Duty Is Crossing Over With Fallout TV Show In Season 1 Reloaded
    Season 1 of Black Ops 7 and Warzone is currently underway, and now Activision has announced Call of Duty's crossover with Amazon Prime Video's Fallout TV show for the midseason update.Activision released a very brief teaser clip for Black Ops 7 and Warzone to reveal the operator skins for this upcoming crossover. While you can't see the full details of the operator skins, the silhouettes clearly hint at operators for Lucy, The Ghoul, and Maximus in his power armor. Call of Duty's big IP collabor
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  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Free Trial Begins

    In another sign that sales arw not what was expected; a seven day free trial has been announced.
  • Suikoden Remastered Collection On Sale For Black Friday Price At Amazon

    Suikoden Remastered Collection On Sale For Black Friday Price At Amazon
    Suikoden I & II HD Remaster Physical Edition$30 (was $50) See at Amazon Suikoden I & II HD Remaster is back on sale for only $30 at Amazon. The $20 discount matches the best deal so far for Konami's great collection of two classic PS1 JRPGs on consoles. You can grab this deal for Nintendo Switch, PS5, or Xbox Series X. PC players can take can get a very similar deal at GameSpot sister site Fanatical. Steam keys are discounted to only $26.49 during Fanatical's Winter Sale.Suikoden I &
  • A 92-Year-Old Just Won A Tekken 8 Tournament

    A 92-Year-Old Just Won A Tekken 8 Tournament
    For three decades, the Tekken series has brought players together as they control of some of the best fighters in the world. Now, a 92-year-old Japanese woman named Hisako Sakai has carved out her own legend in the King of the Iron Ring battles by winning a Tekken 8 tournament.As reported by Automaton, the tournament of senior citizen Tekken 8 players was put on by the Japanese eSports association Care. The mission statement of that organization is to "create an environment in which the elderly
  • Saros: How Housemarque devs are bringing the sci-fi characters to life

    Developers watch the recently revealed Story Trailer and share new insights.
  • Get 30 Classic Universal Monster Movies With These Collection Deals

    Get 30 Classic Universal Monster Movies With These Collection Deals
    Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection (Blu-ray)$57.49 (was $85) See at Amazon Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection (4K Blu-ray)$66 (was $91) See at AmazonIf Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein has you interested in checking out some iconic horror flicks, you'll want to head over to Amazon before the end of the day. The retailer is currently offering a limited-time deal for Universal Classic Monsters: The Complete 30-Film Collection on Blu-ray, which pulls togethe
  • Kinect's Revenge: Nex Playground Outsells Xbox Hardware In The US

    Kinect's Revenge: Nex Playground Outsells Xbox Hardware In The US
    The conventional wisdom is that Kinect was an albatross on Xbox One, making the system more expensive at launch and taking away resource power. But now, over a decade later, the Kinect-like Nex Playground has outsold Xbox hardware for November in the US, according to Circana.Nex Playground came in third for hardware units sold last month, outpacing Xbox Series X|S. The only saving grace is that Xbox raked in more dollar sales, as Nex Playground retails for $250 but has been on sale for $200 over
  • Battlefield 6 "Extremely Likely" To Outsell Black Ops 7 In The US This Year, Expert Says

    Battlefield 6 "Extremely Likely" To Outsell Black Ops 7 In The US This Year, Expert Says
    A leading industry observer has predicted that EA's Battlefield 6 is "extremely likely" to outsell Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 in the US to finish as the year's No. 1 best-selling game.Prior to the release of Battlefield 6 in October and Black Ops 7 in November, industry experts predicted that Black Ops 7 would come out on top. But new data has arrived pointing to Black Ops 7's sales struggles, and now Mat Piscatella of Circana has told IGN that EA's game will likely be the best-selle
  • Fallout 76 Is Free Now On PS5 And Xbox Series X|S, But Only For A Week

    Fallout 76 Is Free Now On PS5 And Xbox Series X|S, But Only For A Week
    Looking for something new to play? Fallout 76 is available now on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S for free, but only for a limited time. Bethesda has announced that the online RPG is now completely free to download and play through December 23. The freebie offer is not available on PC.Additionally, Bethesda has announced that Fallout 76's paid membership, Fallout 1st, is getting a free trial through December 23 as well. The Fallout 1st Limited Preview Trial, as it's called, can be claimed through Fallou
  • Tencent makes minority investment in France's Drama Studios

    The studio says the money is being put towards expansion and speeding up development on hyper-realistic shooter Unrecord
  • Warner Bros. Urges Shareholders To Reject Paramount's Rival Bid For The Studio

    Warner Bros. Urges Shareholders To Reject Paramount's Rival Bid For The Studio
    The battle for Warner Bros. may be down to Netflix and Paramount, but the studio has a clear favorite. Earlier this month, Netflix bid $82.7 billion dollars for Warner Bros., jilting Paramount in the process. Paramount responded with a hostile takeover bid of $108.4 billion. Now, Warner Bros. is urging its shareholders to reject Paramount's "illusory" offer."Following a careful evaluation of Paramount's recently launched tender offer, the Board concluded that the offer's value is inadequate, wit
  • Fallout 5 May Be Influenced By The TV Show

    Fallout 5 May Be Influenced By The TV Show
    Fallout 5 is one of the games currently in the works at Bethesda Game Studios. It's still years away from release, but now Bethesda boss Todd Howard has shared a small update about it.He told the BBC that Fallout 5 will be influenced in part by the popular Prime Video Fallout TV show. "In short, yes," he said. "Fallout 5 will be existing in a world where the stories and events of the show happened or are happening. We are taking that into account."Fallout 76 has also been influenced by the TV se
  • Tomb Raider 2013 Is Getting A Portable Edition

    Tomb Raider 2013 Is Getting A Portable Edition
    The 2013 reboot of Tomb Raider has found its way to several platforms over the years, but in 2026, Lara Croft is about to find herself shipwrecked on mobile devices. Tomb Raider is officially coming to iOS and Android devices on February 12, 2026, and it's priced at $20. This version of the game will also include all 12 DLC packs, adding more outfits, upgrades, and a bonus Challenge Tomb.Feral Interactive says the game has been "expertly optimized" for smartphones and tablets and will feature a
  • One Of 2025's Best Games Looks Like It's Coming To Switch 2

    One Of 2025's Best Games Looks Like It's Coming To Switch 2
    Down under may have just given us the down low on Dispatch coming to Switch and Switch 2. That's because the Nintendo storefront for Australia has listings up for the episodic game, revealing that the title is planned to launch January 29 on both Nintendo systems.There hasn't been an official announcement from Dispatch developer AdHoc Studio yet about Switch and Switch 2 ports. However, the official Nintendo eShop pages point to this being a matter of when, instead of if, Dispatch arrives on the
  • FIFA's Gaming Comeback Is A New Netflix-Exclusive Game

    FIFA's Gaming Comeback Is A New Netflix-Exclusive Game
    For years, EA Sports was the one-stop shop for FIFA-branded soccer, but that partnership officially ended in 2023. Since then, FIFA has been absent from the video game scene, but today Netflix Games and Delphi Interactive have announced that they will be bringing officially branded FIFA soccer back in a new game slated to launch in 2026.The unnamed FIFA soccer game will be available via the Netflix app on both iOS and Android devices, and it is planned to launch "this summer," just in time for t
  • The Last Of Us Co-Director: "I Don't Like AI"

    The Last Of Us Co-Director: "I Don't Like AI"
    The Last of Us co-director Bruce Straley has shared his thoughts on using generative AI to aid in game development, saying the technology cannot "grow and think for itself."The technology "just consumes, and tries to mimic what it's consumed," he told Polygon. "That's the best it can do right now." He also described generative AI as "a snake eating its own tail."One of the reasons why AI has been such a contentious issue in gaming is that not everyone defines it the same way. For his part, Stral
  • Hardware Sales In The US Just Had Worst Month In 30 Years

    Hardware Sales In The US Just Had Worst Month In 30 Years
    Circana released its monthly sales report for November today, shining a light on how the North American video game business is performing. Hardware sales had a particularly difficult month, with sales falling 27%, from $949 million in November 2024 to $695 million in November 2025.November 2025 represented the lowest hardware spending total for a November month since November 2005 ($455 million). A total of 1.6 million game hardware units were sold in North America for November 2025, and that's
  • Black Ops 7's Sales Struggles Come Into Focus

    Black Ops 7's Sales Struggles Come Into Focus
    It's no secret that Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 hasn't sold as well as 2024's Black Ops 6, and now Circana has released more sales data that speaks to the performance of the military shooter.Black Ops 7 was the No. 1 best-selling game in North America for November, but the Call of Duty franchise experienced a double-digit percent decrease for full-game dollar sales compared to November 2024. Last year's game, Black Ops 6, was released in October. Despite the sales downturn, this marks the 18th str
  • Forza Motorsport Content Updates Are Coming To An End

    Forza Motorsport Content Updates Are Coming To An End
    Developer Turn 10 Studios has announced that it is ending development of new content for Forza Motorsport. In a blog update, the studio confirmed that there will be no "new cars, tracks, features, or regular bug fixes" for the game, but it will continue to support Forza Motorsport by keeping the servers online."As our team shifts its focus toward delivering the best possible experience with Forza Horizon 6 in 2026, we do not plan to introduce new cars, tracks, features, or regular bug fixes for
  • Xbox December Update Adds Store Tab To Xbox Mobile And Headset Improvements

    Xbox December Update Adds Store Tab To Xbox Mobile And Headset Improvements
    Xbox's December update is here, and this time it's focused on your off-console experience. The update brings new store functionality to the Xbox mobile app, as well as adding Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio support to the Xbox Wireless Headset, improving battery life and audio quality with certain Windows 11 devices.In April, Microsoft added the ability to purchase games and subscribe to Game Pass directly from the Xbox app. Now, making it even easier to buy games from your phone, the app is get
  • Nintendo Wants Monolith Soft To Have A Central Role In Development Of The Next Legend Of Zelda Game

    Nintendo wants Xenoblade Chronicles developer Monolith Soft to have a central role in the development of the next Legend of Zelda game.
  • Open-world survival crafting game Westlanders announced for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC

    Publisher Radical Theory and developer The Breach Studios have announced Westlanders, a Western-themed open-world survival, crafting, building, and management game planned for release across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam, following a Kickstarter campaign in early 2026 and an Early Access release for PC. A release date for Early Access was not announced.
  • Wuthering Waves 3.0 Hands-On Preview Gotta Go Fast | The Outerhaven

    Wuthering Waves 3.0 is just around the corner, and The Outerhaven got a hands-on experience with it before it launches December 25th, 2025.

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