Completed Baldur's Gate 3 and Want to Fill The Void? Here's What You Should Play Next

We now have a FFXIV 6.5 release date and a look at everything we can expect from the Growing Light update, courtesy of the latest letter from the producer. FFXIV Live Letter 79 just took place at the Tokyo Game Show, and as always game director Naoki Yoshida and community producer Toshio Murouchi held their light-hearted, laid-back look at everything coming in the next big Final Fantasy 14 patch. We’ve got all the details below, including a promise of math with Thaliak, a glimpse at the Zeromus fight, Stormblood joining the free trial, and the much-touted FFXIV KFC collab.

Even from its earliest years, the monumental franchise has extended to video games. Although its earliest arcade offerings are humble compared to modern games, even some older games are classics worth playing in 2023. may be best known for its blockbuster films, but the franchise's video game sector has been far more prolific, and the medium offers a level of interactivity that can't be matched. The galaxy far, far away captures the imagination like few fictional settings can manage, and games allow players a wide range of in-universe experiences, including dueling with lightsabers, piloting a rebel starfighter, and marching into the battles of the Clone Wars.

We're thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of «Playing the Edge.» Apply to speak here and learn more about sponsorship opportunities here. At the event, we will also announce 25 top game startups as the 2024 Game Changers. Apply or nominate today!

Baldur’s Gate 3 has been a standout title this year and continues to be enjoyed by players doing new playthroughs or jumping on the bandwagon and experiencing it for the first time. One of the best parts of the game is the companions you meet on the way, and thanks to Larian Studios, we are about to see them all in a whole new way.

One game based on has been impossible to play since shortly after its original release, but things have finally changed in a major way. Following the financial success of, the follow-up film was poised to be a hit, and its American distributor Warner Brothers committed heavily to advertising. An in-browser game was developed as part of this strategy, with millions being invested in a major marketing gimmick. Dubbed the game was faced with the very unusual problem of being a little bit too successful to work out.

The iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus might be the last non-Pro versions of Apple’s handset lineup to ship without high refresh rate displays, as a rumor claims that the company is bringing this technology to the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus next year. However, the term ProMotion was not mentioned in the rumor anywhere, suggesting that there may be differences separating the entire 2024 lineup once more.

By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.

Black Friday PS5 SSD deals will get you the best digital storage out there at the cheapest prices of the year, and that's saying something. SSDs, particularly the NVMe ones you can slot in a PS5, have been super cheap for a while now. Since digital storage is a staple of any big sales event, we're betting on some record-low prices on high-capacity drives.

Some of the original Buffy cast is reuniting – but it's not for a new TV show.

Vampire Survivors' developer has been so preoccupied with its hit roguelike that it's not given much thought to what its next project will be. 

In a historic milestone for space exploration, India's Chandrayaan-3 mission achieved an unprecedented feat by successfully landing the uncrewed Vikram Lunar lander near the Moon's enigmatic South Pole. This groundbreaking achievement, executed by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), marked India as the first nation to touch down in this relatively unexplored lunar region. It also made it the fourth country globally to achieve a soft landing on the Moon.

I never watched the original Gargoyles animated series, but I've been on the internet for long enough to know that it's a cult favourite for being a Disney show with surprisingly dark themes. I also know that its video game adaptation, released in 1995 for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, was a 16-bit platformer with a similar appeal to other Disney games of the period like Aladdin and The Lion King.