Beloved comedy show Our Flag Means Death canceled after two seasons at Max

South Korean actioner Badland Hunters has become Netflix's new number one movie after just three days of streaming – and it's being described by critics as Mad Max meets The Last of Us.

Following the news that Microsoft is laying off around 1,900 people from its video game workforce, there is further confirmation that a survival game that was in the works over at Blizzard Entertainment has now been canceled. 

Given that Microsoft have spent considerable time and effort becoming the biggest cock-of-the-walk possible, it does, I suppose, make sense that their layoffs are correspondingly massive. In an internal memo obtained by The Verge, Phil Spencer is very sad to reveal to the staff that, in order to grow, the combined powers of Microsoft's 22k-strong Gaming Division have to be denuded to the tune of 1,900 human beings. That amounts to about 8% of the division.

Playing almost any game you want on a screen you can hold in the palm of your hand is now possible between devices like the PlayStation Portal, Steam Deck, and Nintendo Switch. You can also include the Backbone One in the group, a device you can attach to your phone and play mobile games with ease, or stream games from another device or Game Pass. Already available in a handful of different designs, Backbone has teamed up with Kojima Productions to create a special edition Death Stranding controller.

One particular item in Baldur's Gate 3 can prove to be very useful when playing through Tactician or Honour Mode, and it took five hundred hours for a player to come across it for the first time. It's no secret that Larian's latest release has seen a surge in popularity after winning Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2023, as the player count for Baldur's Gate 3 on Steam is still going strong. While the branching narrative and diverse class options can inspire fans to try a new playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3, the community's latest obsession has undoubtedly been Honour Mode.

Behaviour Interactive, the Canadian game developer behind multiplayer survival horror Dead by Daylight, has confirmed that it’s laying off a number of its staff.

No, sorry, there won't be a Bill and Frank TV spin-off for The Last of Us after all. Series co-creator Craig Mazin has said the crew is happy with what it accomplished with those characters in the first season, and as such «there won't be more Bill and Frank».

The musical reboot has scored big at the domestic box office. But the original Cady Heron,, is upset over a joke in the film that references a derogatory term associated with her in the early 2000s. 

Like many theatrical adaptations of stage musicals, Mean Girls(2024) doesn’t include all the songs from the Broadway version. After all, the musical has a two-and-a-half-hour run time, which wouldn’t translate well into a breezy, snappy film. Directors Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. had to make some cuts.

Take-Two Interactive has filed an opposition to Remedy Entertainment’s newest logo, claiming the symbol infringes on Rockstar Games’ logo despite the two having little in common besides the letter “R” representing a video game publisher. First reported by RemedyFirst, the trademark dispute was filed against two versions of the Remedy logo (one with the company’s name, one without) in September with the UK’s Intellectual Property Office.

The mysterious, long-rumoured Halo battle royale project from series co-developer Certain Affinity is no longer in development, a new report has claimed.

CAPCOM has reportedly reverted a Resident Evil Revelations update that brought in a digital rights management (DRM) through Enigma Protector.