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Doom scrolling social media looks to have replaced the age-old pasttime of watching TV in GTA 6, which has prompted feelings of alternating despair and increasing irrelevance in me this morning. I barely understand how TikTok works in real-life, let alone a video game pastiche of it, and oh god, how did I get so old and craggy? I'm just here for the nice-looking flamingos, Rockstar, not a 24/7 twerk stream I can access from the palm of my hand. Of course, TV watching may yet have been preserved beyond what we've seen so far in the first trailer for GTA 6, but even if it's been consigned to the bin of modern history, there might yet be one light in the TikTok-esque darkness to make GTA 6's in-game social media network worthwhile.

is pretty far away from starting production but the film is highly anticipated amongst fans who wish to see what is next for Tom Holland’s web-slinger. However, fans are curious to know if, the director of Holland’s first three Spidey flicks will return to the directing chair once more or if someone else like will helm the new installment.

Edgar Wright's reboot of The Running Man is still a go – and the filmmaker says it'll be a faithful adaptation of Stephen King's original novel.

India's space ambitions are reaching new heights. From working on multiple space missions to International collaborations, the country is uplifting its global status in the field of space exploration. Recently, Victor Joseph, the associate scientific secretary of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) while delivering his speech at the Bengaluru Tech Summit (BTS-2023), explained what the Indian space agency is doing at the moment regarding placing an Indian man on the Moon as well as the status of the Gaganyaan mission.

hasn’t ruled out stepping back into the suit of , but it would have to be for something that’s worth it.

Bruce Campbell has confirmed that his characters from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness are the same person, even if he's not actually sure who said guy is...

As of November 29's Amazing Spider-Man: Gang War First Strike #1, the Marvel Universe has erupted in a massive turf war among the many criminal factions of New York City, and all comes down to a single brutal moment that kicks it all off.

Good news, folks, Geralt is bound for your coffee table. So says Restoration Games, publishers of card and miniatures game Unmatched, who announced today that it's partnering with CD Projekt Red to bring a bunch of Witcher-themed stuff into the game over the course of two new sets. 

Spider-Man 2 voice actor Tony Todd has fuelled speculation that a Venom spin-off game or DLC featuring the character could be in the works by claiming that only 10 per cent of his voice lines were used in the final release.

The Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse script has been released, and there's one major difference from the version of the movie that ended up on screen. The script features a lot more cursing than the film – more specifically, four instances of the word 'fuck'. 

Have you heard of the Jam Man of Silent Hill: Ascension? You're about to. In the third episode of what started out as a potentially interesting experiment and has quickly snowballed into a complete disaster, Karl Johansen (a Norwegian farmer) runs into the Jam Man. 

Tony Todd has revealed that a huge amount of the work he did for was cut from the final game. The horror icon appeared at Fan Expo San Francisco over the past weekend to talk about his role as Venom in the acclaimed superhero sequel and offered an insight into another storyline involving the symbiote and Miles Morales.

The Like a Dragon series loves its comforts. Set in between Yakuza 6 and the impending 2024 game Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name doesn’t come out of the gates and uppercut the player with an all-out original experience. Instead, it tides everyone over until the next release with familiarity. Where it does shine, though, is in the same department as always: The story.

The PS5 Slim released earlier this month, and you buy the console bundled with a $70 game for only $499.

This is one of the best PS5 Black Friday deals available now.

It’s no secret that the stars of the Marvel Cinematic Universe work hard to get superhero bodies to show off on the big screen. When it came to Ant-Man ‘s diet, though, he describes it as awful.

Many processes go into making video games, and a byproduct of that is that not everything planned gets used in the final product. Many video game developers can tell you about cut levels, shelved ideas, and how they had to “rework things” to get a final product that they were really proud of. For Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, they were so dedicated to getting the sequel to their hit PS4 title ready that they didn’t talk about it for almost two years after its announcement. Thankfully, the game was a huge hit and is the best-selling game on PS5 in terms of its launch numbers.

Spider-Man 2 voice actor Tony Todd has reportedly said that 90% of the dialogue he recorded for Venom wasn’t included in the final game.

The Puzzle & Dragons x Chainsaw Man collab kicks off today across the JP servers. As usual, all the best collaborations are Japan exclusives given this game isn’t even Global yet. This event is crammed with CSM references and all-new illustrations of the familiar faces from the hit series.

A Marvel's Spider-Man 2 actor has claimed the game only used roughly 10% of Venom's recorded dialog.

This is one of the best PS5 Black Friday deals available now.

has set up a lot of villains for its sequel. While it may be exciting to see what Insomniac Games has in store for some of Marvel's most iconic villains, there is some concern that the studio may not be able to do justice to each character's arc, especially as it has spoken out about not wanting to do overly long games when discussing 's length. This seems to be a common complaint surrounding some of Sony's movies, with both 2007's and 2014's criticized for juggling multiple villains without giving a satisfactory amount of screen time to each villain's arc.

Venom's voice actor, Tony Todd, has revealed that Spider-Man 2 was originally going to include scenes where Miles Morales was wearing a Symbiote suit, but that they got cut from the final game.

Venom being Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’s main antagonist was among the bigger reasons the game generated as much excitement in the lead-up to its launch as it did, and with the game now more than a month old, it’s fair to say that the iconic villain lived up expectations. Interestingly, however, it seems only a fraction of the voice recording that voice actor Tony Todd did for Venom made it into the final game.

 Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be a very strong force for cultural assimilation and the country should build it with Indian data for common man's daily use, Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal said on Saturday. Speaking at the 12th edition of INSIGHT: The DNA of Success, held at the Isha Foundation here, Aggarwal, stressed upon the pivotal role of AI in cultural assimilation and daily utility.

Mortal Kombat 1 just added JK Simmons' Omni-Man to the game so players are turning him into J. Jonah Jameson from Spider-Man and making Yuri Lowenthal's Smoke look like Spider-Man while making the two duke it out.

There's something magical about LEGO, and when the beloved building toy is combined with a setting as iconic as the Marvel Universe, the good vibes and fun go through the roof - even through the roof of this massive LEGO Daily Bugle set which is on sale for $300.99 this Black Friday, just a dollar higher than the set's lowest price ever.

After over nine years since exited from Marvel Studios’ first movie, the British filmmaker has revealed some new interesting details about his original vision for the Paul Rudd-led movie. On Instagram, Wright responded to a fan’s question about the difference between his version of Ant-Man and Peyton Reed’s 2015 movie.

Arozzi Arena | Rounded corners | 32 x 62-inch | $399.99$249.99 at Arozzi store (save $150)The best large gaming desk on our list we've spotted for a great $150 saving on the official Arozzi store. It's the one I'm still using now after three years, and although I ruined the hydrophobic desk mat, it's still sturdy as ever. This thing is vast, too. I have to plan my entire living space around it and I can fit my gaming tower up top comfortably, alongside my two monitors.

Last week, we asked for shots of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 greatest villains using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights:

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is undoubtedly one of the biggest PlayStation 5 exclusives to come out recently. Off the success of the first game and Miles Morales' own title, the series has become immensely popular with avid and casual gamers alike. So, when you get a Black Friday discount on the PS5 Marvel's Spider-Man 2 bundle, you grab it with both webshooters!

Elden Ring — Standard Edition Vinyl | Marble-effect | $49.99$34.99 at Bandai Namco (save $15)This Vinyl set features 17 tracks that were selected as fan faves across Elden Ring's complete original soundtrack, and it's only available on the official store.

If you are anything like me, Black Friday is the time of year you pick up all-time classic games you don't own, or great games from that year you haven't gotten to yet (I'm currently deciding how many of these games I can afford to get, if we're being honest).

The spin-off title isn't quite as long as its predecessor, but it still manages to juggle a handful of villains. Insomniac Games' first game in the series,, put players in control of an experienced Peter Parker, thus including a deluge of villains, including the Sinister Six. ' villain slate is comparatively modest, clocking in at a total of five, but this smaller cast works for the benefit of the spin-off's runtime and the constraints of its narrative.

Mortal Kombat 1 fans are extremely disappointed with the game's monetization, that much is undeniable. After getting angry at paid seasonal fatalities, overpriced highly-requested skins, and the premium store's rotation system, fans have now turned their anger towards the voice announcer pack for Omni-Man, with many just realizing the item is a separate purchase and isn't included for those that purchased the first Kombat Pack.

Napoleon tells the story of a whole nation through a single marriage. The historical epic, helmed by legendary director Ridley Scott, plays fast and loose with history to craft a Napoleon biopic that’s both conventional and subversive. Scott is happy to play the Dad Movie hits — big battles, meticulous period detail, and a few expertly placed, extremely funny jokes. But in the film’s dramatic beats, Scott and screenwriter David Scarpa push back against the Great Man narrative that so many historical biopics follow. Napoleon isn’t a movie about grand triumph, or about disastrous failure. It’s a story about masculine insecurity, and how it can reduce the world to violence.

10.21 million PC and console games were sold across Europe according to GSD, a slight drop of 2.3% year-on-year.

Insomniac had its work cut out for it with Spider-Man 2 . To say expectations were high going into this sequel is an understatement, buffered by both the first game's major success and the bridge between console generations that was Miles Morales. This new Spidey adventure had to take the best elements from those games, mix them with new characters, features, and stories, and produce the kind of game fans will talk about for years. Somehow, they did just that; Spider-Man 2 is, to get the easy pun out of the way early, amazing. 

Insomniac Games' take on Wolverine is reportedly set to release in 2025 as a PlayStation 5 exclusive.

Peter Parker and Miles Morales face several villains throughout . While most of these villains have complete arcs in the game's campaign or are used to set up future appearances in sequels or potential DLC, there is one villain who appears in the game but doesn't have a clear story arc ahead.

While the Spider-Man movies might just now be dipping their toes into the multiverse, it’s a concept that’s been long established in the comics and shows for over 30 years now. As such, you can imagine all the pure weirdness the webhead has been involved in.

Peter Parker has been through a lot across comics, TV, movies, and games. One constant is the death of Uncle Ben, putting him on the path of heroism as he vows to use his powers responsibly. In a few adaptations and stories, ol' May kicks the bucket too, like in the Insomniac games. But she does that when he's an adult, so Pete at least gets a childhood with her. Unless you manage to time travel like RebelOrion did.

delivers a New York City that's larger and more detailed than its predecessors, with new gameplay additions to accompany it. This means there are plenty of nooks and crannies for developer Insomniac Games to sequester hidden secrets. From gameplay quirks to easily missed encounters and Easter eggs, there are plenty of things players may never notice in .

Black Friday is almost here, and while we got some hints about European PlayStation deals last week, Sony has now fully rolled out their deals on hardware, games, PS Plus, and more.

Last week, we asked you to share pictures of Miles Morales moving through the world of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights:

Dan Jurgens, the writer behind The Death of Superman - not to mention the creator of great characters like Jon Kent, Doomsday and Booster Gold - is uniting with artist Mike Perkins for The Bat-Man: First Knight. The new DC Black Label comic is a modern retelling of some of the Caped Crusader's earliest adventures.

It might seem odd that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 would still be dropping trailers for itself, given that it’s been out for almost a month. But the reasoning is simple: while they have sold an impressive number of units so far, there are always more people to try to sell the game to. Plus, some might have JUST gotten a PS5 and thus need to know some reasons to get the title. As such, Sony dropped a new “Immersion” trailer highlighting how the PS5 controller, among other things, will help you feel immersed in the world of the Spider-Men as you play the title.

has already set up a perfect plotline for Mary Jane Watson in a future game or DLC. Both and followed Mary Jane's career as an investigative journalist for the Daily Bugle, with her often finding herself in treacherous situations through the games' stealth sections.

Fortnite could be getting three new skins from the smash-hit animated series Invincible, according to datamined information.

Due to a technical situation at the charts company, we are using GfK data for physical game sales this month.

In , Kazama Kiryu returns with many new abilities to unlock that best reflect his first steps in this chapter of his life. Whether it is additional attack combos from a fighting stance to powerful finishers, you have many skills to choose from. Several traits you may choose to upgrade affect Kiryu's combat prowess and his interactions with the world.

As if it wasn’t enough to have the Fortnite OG map return with the latest season, more crossovers are coming to help stoke the fire. Recent leaks have revealed another impressive crossover: Invincible skins.

Cakes? More like pancakes.

The accused testified at his federal trial, which just concluded.

David DePape, the man accused of attacking former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer and plotting to kidnap Pelosi herself, has just been found guilty on both counts. As part of his defence, DePape claimed he was radicalized on the internet (per Associated Press), and that he moved from being left-leaning to becoming a right wing conspiracy theorist, with Gamergate as the turning point, before a comment on a YouTube video about Donald Trump sparked his actions.

After one of the most release-heavy months of the year (or possibly of any year), Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 came out on the top of the sales charts in the U.S. according to industry-tracking firm Circana. Not only did Insomniac’s new title top the month’s best-seller chart (and was one of nine new releases to make it onto the list), it also made it to fourth place in the year-to-date bestseller chart. Video game hardware sales plummeted year-over-year, though, and video game sales overall dipped by 5%.

Invincible, Omni-Man, and Atom Eve may be swooping into Fortnite soon, according to leaked images.

Janet Van Dyne and Victor Shade's investigations into the unknown continue in the next issue of Avengers Inc. - and they're about to be joined by a familiar Thor character who brings with her a very strange mystery to be solved.

After a successful turn in Mortal Kombat 1, Omni-Man from Robert Kirkman’s Invincible is headed to Fortnite, according to leaked images of upcoming skins for Epic Games’ battle royale.

All Mortal Kombat 1 characters have Brutalities — unique moves that end a match in a particularly brutal fashion. They’re triggered by doing an extra input command on top of a specific combo ender or move that wins the final round. Most of the characters in the game have six brutalities, but players are starting to discover hidden brutalities, too.

features a great deal of side content for Peter and Miles to explore while traversing through the streets of New York City. Though this exceptional game has a phenomenal main story, some of the game's side missions and activities are so good that they almost steal the show. One notable highlight in many of 's side missions and activities is their brilliant cutscenes, which can offer incredible cinematics, ambiance, and an invaluable addition to the game's narrative.

Kazama Kiryu returns in with various gadgets that you can get that best reflect his new fighting style. Four high-tech options change fights drastically, from wires that grapple enemies to rocket shoes that shoot you forward. When used in tandem with Kiryu's traditional close-range strikes, each gadget brings its edge to every battle.

Marvel’s upcoming series on Disney+ will reportedly released under the recently announced Marvel Spotlight banner.

The greatest challenge for any discipline in game development is the ultimate demon: math. More specifically, exponential math. As the upper boundaries of game development have become more polished and detailed, the effort needed to meet higher bars of quality requires more assets, more content, and more resources—all variables that grow exponentially larger when designers try to support features built around player choice.

It's a good time to be a strategy game developer, according to Oxide Games, developers of Ara: History Untold, which happens to be a strategy game. Speaking to me during a showing of Ara - which is notable among turn-based 4X games for playing out every player's turn simultaneously - the creators offered a rousing characterisation of the genre, suggesting that strategy games have somewhat shucked off their association with stifling complexity and elitism, thanks not least to the recent influence of board gaming.

The former NPD Group (now named “Circana”) has released its full North American sales data for October, and it was a bit of an up-and-down kickoff to the holiday season. Players spent $4 billion on games, additional content, and hardware in October, a 5 percent year-on-year decrease. The PlayStation 5 was the #1 console, followed by Switch and Xbox Series X/S, but hardware sales were down 23 percent year on year, with all consoles experiencing a double-digit decline in business.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 was the best-selling game in the US in October, while PS5 was once again the leading console platform.

Omni-Man has four Brutalities in Mortal Kombat 1 - The Thinker, where he pummels enemies with his fist until their skull shatters; Behind You!, where he spins their head around; Coming Through, where he dashes through them and they explode into a miasma of guts and gore; You Got Boned!, in which he grabs them by the foot and smashes them against the ground until their head explodes, and The Klassic, a decapitating uppercut.

First-month sales for Spider-Man 2 are up by a double-digit percentage compared to the first game.

There's no shortage of side activities in , with an abundance of suits for both Peter and Miles often unlocked as a reward for completing them. While some side activities such as "" can function somewhat independently of the game's main narrative, and act as a way to set up a potential future DLC storyline, others such as the Emily-May Foundation experiments feed directly into Peter Parker and Harry Osborn's main aspirations to «heal the world».

Spider-Man arguably has one of the best supporting casts in comic books, a collection of friends and enemies nearly as iconic as he is. It’s one of the reasons he’s so popular, and why Sony is content to make movies like Venom, Morbius, and Kraven the Hunter based on his rogues’ gallery, with no connection to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and nary a hint of Spidey himself.

In 1972, early into his tenure at Sesame Street, Norman Stiles thought up a pun. The former Merv Griffin comedy writer had spent his first year penning scripts around the kids program’s strict curriculum, but he was always encouraged to craft new ideas for characters. After conceiving The Amazing Mumford with a couple of colleagues, he received another jolt of inspiration: What if Count Dracula taught… counting?

Circana (formerly known as the NPD Group) has released the latest software and hardware sales data for the month of October in the United States (via analyst Mat Piscatella on social media platform X), and on the software side of things, there’s an abundance of new releases debuting in the top 20.

Video game analyst group Circana has released its October 2023 U.S. Video Game Market Highlights report and in it, the company reveals that Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was the best-selling game of the month. The PlayStation 5 was the best-selling console of the month, too. 

Miles Morales has a truly impressive array of abilities on display in, but DLC for the game could make one particular addition to elevate him to the next level entirely. The games have already delivered big-time on an arc for Miles, starting him out as a well-meaning youth that Peter enlists to help at a homeless shelter and bringing him into the full scope of his powers. It might seem like there isn't much farther for him to go, but the perfect mechanic to transform his abilities connects perfectly to

This project blew me away the moment I came across it, and the further I went down this rabbit hole, the more astounded I became. Floor796 is an ever-expanding animation scene that has been created by one guy… yup, just one guy. It shows the life of one floor on a huge space station and is absolutely packed with references from varied media forms (including videogames, which we will get to), most of which you can click on for details.

Aaron and Adam Nee‘s planned live-action reboot of Masters of the Universe could be heading to Amazon following its cancellation at Netflix.

To upgrade your skills and abilities in , you have to earn plenty of money fast from the activities you can do in the city of Sotenbori, Osaka. Collecting Yen serves as a way not only to improve Kazama Kiryu's combat skills, but also to purchase powerful items you may use in combat. Some side content you are able to find allows the former Yakuza to farm lots of money easily.

In June, YouTube started experimenting with a way to counter ad blockers. This experiment was turned into a global crackdown recently which involved blocking those who use ad-blockers on the video streaming service. Consequently, those who used adblockers faced a ‘It looks like you may be using an ad blocker' message. While this was aimed at stopping the use of adblockers while encouraging users to adopt YouTube Premium, the platform could face repercussions as a complaint has been filed against it for alleged unlawful surveillance.

A renowned fighter of the Amon Clan returns in to try and beat Kazama Kiryu in a secret boss fight. Unlocked through the Coliseum Arena, you'll have to overcome every combat mini-game available to challenge two prominent Amon characters. One will test your ability to fight with an assembled team, while the other tests your skills in a 1v1 brawl.