Asura The Striker delayed to 2024, second trailer

This review of The Beast comes from the film’s screenings at the 2023 New York Film Festival.

Activision-Blizzard has said that it expects that it will start adding games to Game Pass sometime in the course of 2024.

If you've been in the US your whole life, you're probably not aware of how popular the sport of cricket is globally. Around 2.5 billion people count themselves as fans, and Thursday marks the beginning of the most important event on the calendar: the ICC Cricket World Cup.

After 146 days, a landmark deal is going to soon be signed by the Writers' Guild of America, after it got several concessions from the producers and moguls running Hollywood. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) remains on strike as of this writing.

The Pokémon Company has apologised to fans after scalpers besieged the Van Gogh Museum earlier this week, buying up most of the Pokémon Center x Van Gogh special edition products and almost immediately selling them for heavily inflated prices on online auction sites.

The U.S. sanctions did not impede the progress of Chinese semiconductor manufacturer SMIC in mass producing the Kirin 9000S, which is now found in Huawei’s flagship, the Mate 60 Pro, though it is no secret that its 7nm process is several generations behind the most advanced node. However, a report states that with the latest SoC launch, China is at most four years behind, and the export controls executed by the United States intended to keep the region up to 10 years behind in the chip race.

red band teaser trailer for Legendary Entertainment’s upcoming superhero remake has been released (via IGN), providing the first footage of Peter Dinklage as the titular hero. The film just had its world premiere at the 2023 Fantastic Fest last week, where it garnered positive reviews from critics and currently has a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Enotria: The Last Song is an upcoming souls-like currently targeting a Spring 2024 launch on PS5. What's the spin this time? Enotria eschews the darkness and bathes in a sunlit world inspired by Italian folklore. This is a technical showcase trailer, and while the art direction and environment are impressive enough, we'd hope combat animations get tightened up a bit before launch.

Resident Evil 4 “Separate Ways” DLC has arrived, letting players see what Ada Wong was busying herself with during the game’s main story (you can check out Wccftech’s impressions of the expansion here). Of course, as always with Resident Evil, Separate Ways contains its fair share of puzzles, secrets, and unique mechanics to unravel.

Cozy games have carved a chill little niche for themselves, and you don’t get much cozier than the Shire. The home of the Hobbits is the subject of a new game from publisher Private Division and developer Weta Workshop. The two paired up to announce Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game, currently planned for 2024. 

City Connection has released the reveal trailer for the newly announced RUSHING BEAT X: Return of Brawl Brothers, as well as confirmed a 2024 release window. Platforms were not announced.

NetEase and Shueisha Games have released the second official trailer for unVEIL the world, the September 2022-announced tactical hero summoning RPG for iOS and Android. A release date has still yet to be announced.