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Arguably Cyberpunk 2077's most famous date scene - the underwater scuba dive with tech wizard Judy Alvarez - was made with smoke and mirrors, according to one lead developer. 

The next content update, Dark Heart, is coming to World of Warcraft on May 7th. Blizzard has released a new in-game cinematic to whet your appetite and details on the update. This also comes as The War Within alpha enters its next phase.

Blizzard has released a new cinematic for Patch 10.2.7: Dark Heart, in which Khadgar sends his old friend, Alleria, after the mysterious Harbinger. But what does Alleria already know? We break it down below.

Blizzard has released an new In-Game Cinematic for Patch 10.2.7 featuring Khadgar, Jaina and Alleria! Patch 10.2.7 launches next week on May 7th! Check out our Patch 10.2.7 Overview. Patch 10.2.7 Overview

Star Wars Outlaws will have an optional Ultrawide display to make it "one of the most cinematic games of all time."

players who want to make their battles a little more dramatic can now do so thanks to a mod that adds in a highly-customizable killcam that spotlights enemies with a cinematic flair. Bucking the trend set by previous Bethesda games like and, the sci-RPG frustrated many players by excluding any kind of killcam, a small but stylish feature that the community has come to expect from the developer's titles. A fun way of wrapping up a challenging combat encounter, the killcam is a popular mechanic amongst enthusiasts.

Genshin Impact shared a new trailer unveiling the April 24 release date of its version 4.6, «Two Worlds Aflame, the Crimson Night Fades.» Studio developer HoYoverse continues to expand upon the world of Teyvat with a new area, banner, and event to keep players on their toes. Most notably, a highly anticipated character, Arlecchino, is set to launch with a new banner for Genshin Impact 4.6's first phase.

Gearbox Publishing and Blackbird Interactive released a new cinematic for Homeworld 3 earlier this week, hoping to catch players up on the series’ story ahead of its release in May.

Folks, we thought this day may never come, but it's here. The official Helldivers 2 freestyle rap, which was tragically cut from the full version of the game, has surfaced online thanks to a behind-the-scenes video from Goodbye Kansas Studios – the team behind the shooter's iconic opening cinematic.

With about a month and a half left before the game's launch, Ninja Theory has finally shown Senua's Saga: Hellblade II to a few outlets. The sequel to 2017's 'triple-I' masterpiece is scheduled to launch on May 21 for PC and Xbox Series S|X and will benefit from the increased production values that the studio based in Cambridge, UK, can access following the acquisition by Microsoft in 2018.

Dr Disrespect found himself in a state of surprise upon discovering that one of his viewers had created a 3D video detailing the saga of his ban from Twitch and other highlights of his streaming career. The unexpected creation prompted the former Twitch personality to offer his response to the fan's artistic interpretation of his career.

A team in Helldivers 2 accidentally coordinated an epic cinematic bombardment with their Eagle stratagems. Helldivers 2 has seen a meteoric rise in popularity since its release, very much due to word of mouth and the viral fame of moments such as this.

The upcoming Cate Blanchett-fronted Borderlands film is the start of a «Borderlands Cinematic Universe», according to Gearbox founder Randy Pitchford.

The Cinematic World of Sonic the Hedgehog — yes, Paramount is calling it that — expands in April with the release of Knuckles, the live-action spinoff of Sega and Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog movies. On Thursday, we got our first look at that Paramount Plus-exclusive series, which might just make you think, “Hey, why isn’t this a movie?”

Thirty minutes before a midnight screening of Tommy Wiseau’s Big Shark at Chicago’s Music Box Theater, the man sitting in front of me and my husband turned around with a sly grin and asked us “Are you cowboys?” I immediately guessed where this was going, so I played along and told him, straight-faced, that no, we were not cowboys. “OK, then. You might need these,” he said, offering me a box of tissues.

One of World of Warcraft’s recent epilogue cinematics just set up Iridikron as one of the major villains in The Last Titan, the third expansion in The Worldsoul Saga. This new cinematic was added to the game as a part of World of Warcraft Patch 10.2.5, Seeds of Renewal.

In the 2nd part of the Dragonflight Epilogue, players head to Amirdrassil and watch another cutscene featuring a familiar face! Epilogue Part 1Epilogue Part 2Epilogue Part 3 After this cutscene, the following conversation takes place:

Here's the third cutscene in the Dragonflight Epilogue featuring Iridikron and Vyranoth. Epilogue Part 1Epilogue Part 2Epilogue Part 3

At the beginning of the Dragonflight Epilogue, a cutscene plays atop the Seat of the Aspects. Spoilers!

Bandai Namco has released Tekken 8’s opening cinematic to whet fans' appetite for the game as its release date draws ever closer. The publisher also confirmed that long-time favorite Eddy Gordo will kick off the roster of Season 1 DLC fighters.

After skipping a year last year, Riot Games has resumed its trend of launching new League of Legends seasons with the debut of ‘Still Here’ the LoL 2024 Season cinematic trailer.

It’s a yearly tradition for Riot Games to release a new cinematic for League of Legends. In fact, when Riot went with a minimalist tour of the Rift with the 2023 cinematic “Brink of Infinity,” fans revolted on social media. Riot noted the desire for a big CGI cinematic, and this year, the developer has delivered with “Still Here.”

There’s been a ton of fan-made content from the indie-hit Lethal Company, one of them being this jaw-dropping animated cinematic trailer.

Over the weekend, Square Enix revealed new information about Dawntrail , Final Fantasy XIV’s upcoming fifth expansion, during a fan event for the popular MMO. In addition to unveiling a lengthy cinematic trailer, fans got a look at one of the game’s two new jobs and its new playable race.

Content Warning: The following article contains mentions of themes some readers may find distressing, including those of self-harm and suicide.

The intro cinematic for Persona 3 Reload has been released by Atlus, and it's as bold and stylish as fans of the series have come to expect.

The latest Insider Episode for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League discussed the game’s weapons, combat, vendors, returning characters and how you’ll customize armaments to defeat Brainiac’s forces. However, despite the co-op support, this is still a narrative-focused adventure. Rocksteady says it’s the studio’s “biggest cinematic experience”, with more hours of cinematic cutscenes than ever.

Buried within Games Workshop’s announcement that Henry Cavill's Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe is "now properly rolling" is a tantalising tease that a Warhammer Fantasy Cinematic Universe could be next.

2022 did not end particularly well for our favorite hunk of burning PC gamer Henry Cavill. After leaving The Witcher to return to the big screen as DC's top-dog superhero, the Superman project fell apart, his old job was gone, and he was very suddenly looking for something to do. But there was one bright spot: After all of the above had unfolded, Games Workshop confirmed that Cavill was set to head up, and star in, a Warhammer 40,000 «cinematic universe.»

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, the latest from Life is Strange developer Don't Nod Entertainment, hits PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC in February. Ahead of its release early next year, the studio released a new cinematic trailer to highlight the game's narrative at The Game Awards 2023. 

Throne and Liberty , NCSoft’s latest epic MMORPG  has officially launched in Korea. There’s a brand new cinematic story trailer to whet your appetite for the large-scale battles, environmental challenges, and quests for power ahead.

Epic Games has released a new cinematic trailer for LEGO Fortnite, its upcoming survival crafting experience based on The Lego Group’s IP. It showcases the events that led to this LEGO adventure (read: portals) and some of the things players can do. Check it out below.

SPINE is a single-player, story-rich action game that emphasises close-quarters gun fights, aping the aesthetics of Gun-fu movies like John Wick, and it's coming to PS5. We got an impressive-looking gameplay trailer showing all kinds of up-close, stylised mayhem.

What if Minecraft, but plastic? And in Fortnite? Gaming is weird nowadays, isn't it?

We’re now a day away from players being able to jump into the world of Lego Fortnite for the very first time. We still have a ton of questions, but some of them may have been answered thanks to today’s lengthy Lego Fortnite cinematic trailer.

Alongside the launch of Fortnite Chapter 5: Season 1, Epic Games revealed Lego Fortnite, a new experience that takes the familiarity of Fortnite and mashes it together with Lego for a new survival adventure experience. Today, Epic Games and Lego released a cinematic trailer for Lego Fortnite that reveals crafting, combat, multiplayer team-ups, a massive world to explore, and more. 

At some point you have to admit you've been outsmarted. And yet, none of the bad guys in the new PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted trailer for Spine, a cyberpunk gun fu beat 'em up, will give up. Maybe it's because one of them actually managed to defeat Spine's street-artist-turned-John-Wick protagonist—temporarily.

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Asgard's Wrath 2, the sequel to developer Sanzaru Games' 2019 virtual reality ARPG, received a brand new trailer today ahead of its December 15th release on the Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3, and Meta Quest Pro VR headsets.

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ARPG fans have a lot to look forward to on February 21, 2024, as Last Epoch has that marked as their launch date. With more than 850,000 units already sold and an additional 650,000 wishlisted during its Steam early access phase, Last Epoch is on track to surpass an impressive milestone of 1 million units sold before its full 1.0 launch. The team at Eleventh Hour Games has released a new cinematic trailer to get players hyped for next year's release.

For most people, Madame Web isn’t an instantly identifiable Spider-man character. And yet the trailer for the new Madame Web movie took the internet by storm. It helped to have some famous faces in there — Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb alongside Euphoria’s Sydney Sweeney as a Spider-person and Adam Scott as maybe Uncle Ben?? — but the real ticket was the way it so succinctly summed up the villain’s ridiculous backstory.

Fatshark is set to mark the first anniversary of Warhammer 40K: Darktide with the release of a two part game update called The Traitor Curse.

Larian Studios announced on Monday that Jim Southworth, who led the Baldur's Gate 3 cinematic animation team, has died. He was 56 years old, and had been diagnosed with cancer at the end of 2022.

«Sometimes, very epic things can begin with small, heartfelt moments. What you're about to see is one of those moments.» This is how Chris Metzen introduced the cinematic trailer for The War Within, and sure enough, the scene that opens is a simple one. No action, no world-shattering event or dragonriding race, just the passive figure of Anduin, recognizable by his sword Shalamayne, seated in the desert. Apart from serene orchestral music, the only sound at first is the wind, shifting the sands and gently pulling at Anduin's cloak, a simple cloak of white — grey and dirty from use. Shalamayne is dark, the Light that usually glows in a hollow in the blade's center has gone out. We can see it's twilight — whether the sun is rising or setting, the day is in a transitional period, in between darkness and light. Anduin, we can't help but notice, is facing the darker section of the sky. The camera moves over Anduin's face showing his aged skin, the fact that he has a beard. It's been a long time since we last saw Anduin: the three-year time skip between Shadowlands and Dragonflight, as well as the entirety of Dragonflight. Shalamayne twists back and forth in the sand, first one way, then another, as Anduin clenches and releases his grip. Anduin's eyes are unseeing, he's not thinking about moving the sword, it's a subconscious act reflecting his inner turmoil. Everything about this scene reinforces the themes of indecision as if Anduin himself is stuck, like the sky, halfway between the darkness and the light. He sighs, and closes his eyes, and we see a vision of Azeroth, not the planet, but the World Soul that dwells within. In appearance, the soul is like a planet covered in seas of Light. The colors we associate with Azerite are there — gold and blue — but as the light streams out from the soul, there are also hints of red and purple, colors we associate with Shadowflame and the Void. The world soul whispers a name.

Celebrating the first part of the anniversary update for co-op shooter Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, developer Fatshark has released a new cinematic trailer showcasing the storyline for a new zone of Tertium introduced with the update—the Carnival.

We've datamined The Great Dragons cinematic which occurs after the events of the Amirdrassil Raid. Spoilers! This seems to be the result of the The Great Dragons spell, which we covered previously.

Thanks to Echo and their World First Normal Fyrakk Kill, we've datamined the Aspects Reempowered Epilogue cinematic which is an immediate follow-up to the The Great Dragons Amirdrassil Raid finale cinematic.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s embrace of multiverse shenanigans took the franchise into a new phase, one where in theory, fans no longer need to argue about whether a given Marvel TV show is canon to the MCU. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has implied that now, they’re all canon, sorta — any story taking place under the Marvel brand can in theory be considered a multiverse story happening somewhere in the realm of possibility.

Sitting in the press room, watching the BlizzCon 2023 opening ceremony this year as returning Warcraft Executive Creative Director Chris Metzen take the stage to reveal the next three World of Warcraft expansions, I was reminded of Marvel’s Kevin Feige announcing entire new slates of movies coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe at Comic-Con.

Blizzard has released the epic cinematic for the 11th WoW expansion The War Within featuring both Anduin and Thrall as Anduin comes to grips with his past actions as the World Soul of Azeroth calls out for help for a coming threat beneath the Sword of Sargeras.

 Embracer Group layoffs have hit animation studio Digic Pictures, which the company acquired in 2021. 

Game Developer Deep Dives are an ongoing series with the goal of shedding light on specific design, art, or technical features within a video game in order to show how seemingly simple, fundamental design decisions aren’t really that simple at all.

Publisher North Beach Games and developer Free Range Games have released the opening cinematic for cooperative survival crafting game The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria, featuring actor John Rhys-Davies reprising his role as Lord Gimli Lockbearer.

In the latest PTR build, we datamined the name of a new in-game cinematic coming in Patch 10.2 that might provide some hints at the Guardians of the Dream story campaign finale and potentially the future of the Night Elves. Unfortunately, the in-game cinematic is encrypted and only the first 5 of the 7 campaign chapters are currently testable on the PTR including the 10.1.7 Shandris Feathermoon Questline and the first 4 storylines of the Defenders of the Dream achievement. Therefore, we don't have a ton of context for what the title 'New Moon' could mean, but let's speculate anyway...

Marvel's Spider-Man is almost here. Set to hit PlayStation 5 exclusively on October 20, PlayStation and developer Insomniac Games have continued to ramp up excitement surrounding the sequel with trailers, gameplay, and more. And last night, PlayStation released a new extended 60-second TV spot that gives us a more cinematic look at these heroes' latest adventure. 

After initially circulating on Twitter last week (and being removed), the cinematic TV spot for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is now officially available. It sees Peter Parker and Miles Morales battling Venom in Manhattan, unsure if they can protect their loved ones but still committing to fight. Check it out below, though be warned of spoilers for the first game.

Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Insomniac Game have released the “Be Greater. Together.” cinematic trailer for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.

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Amid all the details and gameplay for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, a new cinematic TV spot has been doing the rounds in Brazil. Dubbed in Portuguese and shared by @multiversebro on Twitter, it sees Miles Morales and Peter Parker battling Venom in Manhattan. Check it out below, though beware of spoilers for Marvel’s Spider-Man.

There’s quite a bit of excitement for fans of the Cyberpunk 2077 video game. The title was highly anticipated upon its initial reveal, but that launch was anything but smooth. Since its release, the developers have been striving to get the game back up and reach their standards. However, it’s in a far better state now than when it was upon the initial release. In fact, we’re getting ready for a major update to the title, along with the developers releasing the first and only expansion. Today, a new video was released on the official Cyberpunk 2077 YouTube channel, giving you a little more insight into the cinematic trailer.

Sega has shared the opening cinematic for Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name.

The first Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Zombies cinematic trailer is here, and it shows which returning characters are alive, dead, and undead.

Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has a new campaign following up on last year’s title and multiplayer that involves revamped maps from Modern Warfare 2 (2009). However, Zombies is the main appeal for many, and this year offers a brand new experience. Check out the intro cinematic below.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is coming this November, and for the first time in the series’ history, we’re going to receive a zombie mode. This mode has been incredibly popular, so we’re sure that there are more than enough players eager to dive into this game mode once it drops. With that said, today, the official Call of Duty YouTube channel released a video cinematic for the zombie’s game mode. Here’s what we know so far about this mode and Operation Deadbolt. 

If you didn't know too much about Marvel, the sheer scale of the MCU has ensured that you learn something or the other by osmosis at least. However, if you're one of those fans that watches every MCU movie and show, then you probably know everything that there is to know about it.

Set to release on September 26th, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty gets a brand new cinematic trailer featuring actor Idris Elba, along with a behind the scenes look with the actor, and new music to enjoy.

New Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty character and story details have been revealed.

James Wan is super keen to make Aquaman 3 – and he doesn't want to stop there either. At an exclusive trailer-reveal event for the upcoming second movie in LA recently, the filmmaker touched on his hope of one day turning the series into a cinematic universe, which'd take viewers to all corners of Atlantis.

The Cyberpunk 2077 video game had a massive following leading up to the launch. While the game didn’t release with fan expectations, it forced the development team to scrap post-launch content plans. Instead, the developers focused on bringing the game up to their standards. After a series of updates and fixes, the game is in a far better state than when it initially launched. Fortunately, despite having to scrap plans and spend most of their time bringing the game back around, the developers over at CD Projekt Red are getting to release one expansion for the title.

Nintendo and Illumination’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie is the second-highest-grossing movie of the year, just behind the box-office phenomenon known as Barbie. The logical question to ask of Nintendo’s partnership with the maker of Minions and Despicable Me is: What’s next?

In a new development diary, developer Paradox Interactive has revealed new details about the cinematic camera and photo mode in the upcoming city builder Cities: Skylines 2. Alongside details in the post itself, the studio has also released a new trailer showcasing the photo mode and cinematic camera.

Patch 10.1.7 includes a new questline involving Emberthal and the remnants of the Sundered Flame. Here's the in-game cinematic and questline! Spoilers ahead.

Patch 10.1.7 is now live, introducing a new step in the Dragonflight campaign, heritage armor questlines, and several newly datamined in-game cinematic character models!

A little over a couple of months ago, Square Enix unveiled Star Ocean: The Second Story R, a remake of the classic PS1 RPG sporting a gorgeous new 2.5D aesthetic, and with the game now approaching its early November launch, the publisher is beginning to reveal more details on it.

Patch 10.1.7: Fury Incarnate releases on September 5th, and Blizzard has released the patch's opening cinematic. We break down this confrontation between Vyranoth and Fyrakk — and what it means for the future of the Primalist Incarnates.

Announced back in 2021, it feels like we've been waiting on edgy Soulslike Lies of P forever, but we're in the homestretch now. The gritty take on the classic tale of Pinnochio will finally release on PS5 and PS4 on 19th September, and we got a cinematic trailer to tide us over in the meantime.

Retrieval is being billed as a cinematic horror action-adventure game that follows Hana Loshe, the commander of a research team some 18 billion miles away from Earth, who uncovers the horrors living just beneath the surface. Don't expect this one to launch anytime soon, but it's been announced for PS5.

The latest cinematic trailer for Appeal Studios and Nacon's co-op shooter Gangs of Sherwood kicks off with the clinking sound of armor. Things are relatively peaceful – before a huge, towering hilltop cannon destroys an adjacent castle with a single shot; a bowman headshots an enemy soldier from ridiculous range, sending the foe plummeting to their doom; a magician strangles shield-bearing baddies with a lightning-infused whip; and a swordsman slices his prey into pieces. 

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