Hades' highest difficulty is so tough that top players say a single attempt takes at least 85 hours to pull off

Be honest, have you played for more than five hours at a time?

The Pokemon Company always holds something special every few years, if not annually, called the Pokemon World Championships. Pokemon’s equivalent of DOTA 2’s The International, or Street Fighter’s EVO, is every bit a star studded and world renowned affair, if not even more so given the preeminent popularity of Game Freak’s and Creatures’ franchise.

Geoff Keighley has provided an update on his next flagship game show, Gamescom Opening Night Live, which he says will focus less on announcing new projects.

In a repeat from the last four weeks, Barbie remained atop the domestic box office, taking in $33 million (-36%) in its fourth weekend to bring its total to a massive $526.3M and $1.183B worldwide, per Deadline. That’s just phenomenal for the Greta Gerwig-directed pic, which is now less than $200M away from overtaking The Super Mario Bros. Movie as the No. 1 grossing film of 2023.

The Apple TV+ film Tetris was copied from a book written years ago, according to a lawsuit filed against the tech giant and the Tetris Company. Dan Ackerman, the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo, has accused the plaintiffs of ripping off his book The Tetris Effect, which tells the history of the game in the form of a Cold War-era thriller. In his lawsuit (PDF, via Reuters), Ackerman said he sent the Tetris Company and its CEO Maya Rogers a pre-publication copy of his book back in 2016. Later that year, his agent received a "strongly worded Cease and Desist letter" to stop him from pursuing film and TV opportunities. 

EVO players claim that PS5s used in tournaments have "melted" the USB connections on their controllers. One player even says his controller was damaged after just one set, with others hypothesizing that a "faulty" PS5 is to blame.

Guilty Gear: Strive has surpassed 2.5 million players worldwide, making it both the first title released by Arc System Works and first Guilty Gear series title to do so, developer Arc System Works announced.

Does this make them the new ruler of the Underworld?

Sanctuary is a deadly place for anyone, but none moreso than those who choose to challenge themselves via Hardcore gameplay. It's no small feat, then, to reach level 100 with a Hardcore character — and Blizzard has finally released the revised official list of those players who were the first to achieve this goal! Official List of Diablo 4 Hardcore Players Diablo 4 Hardcore Victories Blizzard Blog Players who raced for the summit of level 100 realized once the official list was released that some names were potentially missing, and Blizzard pledged to reexamine the rankings.

If your Baldur's Gate 3 download is moving like a hungover glacier, you're in good company. The long-awaited full release of the mammoth RPG has seemingly done a number on Steam's servers, and eager fans are reporting download times ranging from six hours to six months. 

Hades player Angel1C (also known as Jade on YouTube) has managed to beat the game on Heat level 64, which was previously thought to be nearly impossible.

Throwing an hour of light comedy into the middle of a 10-episode arc with galactic-level stakes could derail an entire season, but Star Trek: Strange New Worlds dances gracefully from week to week between courtroom drama, time-travel romance, and its latest wild swing: a musical episode.