Five Nights At Freddy's Has Already Made More Than Its $25 Million Budget

We just can't get enough punishing fantasy horror action RPGs. After Elden Ring last year and Lies of P in September, and despite some early performance complaints and proximity to RPG juggernauts Baldur's Gate 3 and Starfied, Lords of the Fallen has already sold more than a million copies, according to its publisher.

On the surface, Five Nights at Freddy’s seems like it checks all of the boxes of a terrifying horror movie. A claustrophobic setting? Yes. Mysterious disappearances? Yes. Jumpscares? Yes. Killer robots? Quadruple yes. 

If upon Mortal Kombat 1’s release earlier this year, you were (for some reason) sorely disappointed about the complete lack of Five Nights at Freddy’s characters in the game, then do I have news for you.

We now have a nice little update on the long reported Bioshock movie.

YouTuber Markiplier has revealed why he had no choice but to turn down a role in the upcoming Five Nights at Freddy's movie.

Ever since the first trailer for the Five Nights at Freddy's movie dropped, fans of the series have been wondering as to whether YouTube superstar Markiplier would have some kind of secret cameo role. Markiplier is widely credited as one of the first big creators to start spreading the name of the series during its infancy, and has undoubtedly been a large part of it's meteoric rise in popularity. Because of this, many thought that an appearance in the movie was all but guaranteed.

We see time and time again that making a video game always comes with unexpected challenges. It's the exact same in movies too, and working with real animatronics for the Five Night at Freddy's movie presented director Emma Tammi and her team with a lot more challenges than usual. Having to work with several hulking robots dressed up as animals can't have been easy, especially when one of them decides to go up in flames on a random evening.

Just finding time to play through the best Steam Next Fest demos, let alone all the promising ones that appeal to me specifically, is a tough task. I've had to get pretty aggressive about my selection process this week. If a demo's screenshots and tags don't grab me immediately, it's not getting a download, and if the first five minutes don't feel right, it's getting uninstalled. Life, like Steam Next Fest, is too short. And I was this close to passing on Noreya: The Gold Project, a 2D pixel art Metroidvania from developer Dreamirl, not because it didn't look good, but because I still haven't gotten to demos for some of the event's most popular games. But I'm glad I gave it a shot. The demo is a little rough technically, but I see huge potential in this distinctly post-Hollow Knight game. 

Old School Runescape player and streamer BTCs, known as the wealthiest player in the game with more than one trillion gold to his name, has been permanently banned from Runescape over allegations of real-world trading—that is, trading items in the game for anything outside of it, typically real money. It's a stunningly expensive ban: Even though OSRS gold has no official real-world value according to the terms of service (because you're not allowed to trade it for real money), the price of that much gold on grey-market gold selling sites would be in excess of $160,000.

A pop-up Freddy Fazbear's Pizza location has appeared on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood, California ahead of Five Nights at Freddy's October release. 

Starfield has only been out a month, and someone has already been to every planet in its universe. While Todd Howard said we’d be able to visit over 1,000 planets, the Bethesda dev actually undersold the sheer scale of Starfield’s galaxy - there are actually close to 1,700 planets, and now someone’s seen them all just weeks after launch.

One of the hottest debates in the Five Nights at Freddy's community has just been put on ice, as the series' creator has confirmed that Bonnie is blue, not purple.