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There is plenty of hype built up around Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. But if you needed another reason to get excited about this game, it looks like a lot more care and effort went into side content. We’re getting this next installment to the Final Fantasy VII remake in February of next year. As a result, there’s a bit more marketing and interviews popping up about the title and what fans can expect. Recently, Game Informer spoke with some of the folks behind Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. During their conversation, it was unveiled that The Witcher 3 played a significant role in where developers were taking inspiration. 

It was around the third time Jason Momoa was wiping piss off his face that I felt truly unmoored from Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.

Mariya Takeuchi, the singer most famous worldwide for “Plastic Love”, has a new single out.

The Day Before will go down as one of 2023's greatest disasters, rated as one of the worst games of the year and was so bad that developer Fntastic decided to close its doors just days after release. The Day Before can no longer be purchased on Steam after that whole saga, but you know that whenever something has limited quantities, the scalpers aren't too far behind, no matter the quality.

Dungeons of Hinterberg is on the way from Microbird Games, combing the alpine beauty of the Austrian alps with skiing, snowboarding, and dungeon crawling to fight monsters. Luisa is the main character, who embarks on an adventure to fight the monsters armed with a sword and magic. In the latest developer diary, the overworld of Kolmstein is shown.

It’s 2023 and my miles-long PlayStation 2 backlog is still eyeballing me, but there sure were a lot of good games on PS5 this year worth jumping on — with a few of those available on PS4, too.

With Dallas Stars goalie Jake Oettinger injured within minutes of Friday’s Ottawa Senators game, Scott Wedgewood stepped up into the crease. Not only did Wedgewood stop 25 of 27 goals to help the Stars win 5-4 over the Senators, but he debuted a special new Mario Kart goalie mask.

Lieutenant Columbo, played with average Joe charm and unshowy, easy-to-miss dexterity by Peter Falk, is more than meets the eye — to the bad guys, not us, because we know how things will turn out.

Rose Glass's new romantic thriller Love Lies Bleeding has unveiled its first trailer – and it offers up all the queer love, '80's vibes and action-packed mayhem we were hoping for.

Twenty-five years ago, DreamWorks’ movie The Prince of Egypt hit theaters. Its release could have changed American animation — and maybe should have. But it didn’t.

Funko has been pretty busy this festive period, although, with more than 13,000 Pops now out in the world, you could argue it's never really not busy. It's not done with 2023 just yet though as first looks at new figures releasing before the end of the year have appeared online. All of them Sonic figures, there appear to be eight Pops in total that will expand Sonic's Funko collection very soon.

Fans have been waiting for years to see Rockstar Games reveal the next Grand Theft Auto installment. After 2013, fans have been stuck in Los Santos, but that won’t last forever. This month, we got the official reveal of Grand Theft Auto VI. This will bring players back to the fictionalized Miami city, Vice City. But we’re still uncertain how much has changed in Vice City since we last left it in the franchise. For instance, we will get a bigger map to explore than those early Vice City games. 

Zack Snyder is no stranger to remixing past pop history. From rewiring zombie tropes to dimensionalizing comic book drawings to bringing DC’s Justice League to the screen for the first time, the man loves playing in other people’s sandboxes. So what was the draw of carving out his own bespoke universe with Rebel Moon, his new Netflix franchise-starter?

Grand Theft Auto VI has been one of the most anticipated games in years. After Grand Theft Auto V launched in 2013, fans have been waiting to see where Rockstar Games would take them next. Of course, Grand Theft Auto V was a massive hit and that allowed support to continue on for a decade now with this game. But that doesn’t mean we’re staying in Los Santos for good. It took quite a while, but early this month, we got the reveal of the next mainline installment for the franchise. Unfortunately, this anticipated game is now ammo for predators to steal your precious data and money. 

For ages, video games have had a few difficulty options available before you start the game. This can help players get into a game without feeling they are being too overwhelmed. Likewise, this could help players get more of a challenge if they are going through the game too easily. Then, there are options where you can head into the settings and change the difficulty if you’re feeling a need to readjust your gameplay experience. But in the future, we could see Sony bring out an option that completely adjusts the game difficulty to how you’re playing. 

“Weird Al” Yankovic shaped the humor of many of pop culture’s funniest comedians, including Patton Oswalt, The Lonely Island, and Garfunkel and Oates. But what comedy inspires Weird Al?

The Finals is the popular new FPS on the block, meaning the topic of skill-based matchmaking was bound to pop up sooner or later. With a recent patch tweaking just that for "better quality games" happening not long after the The Finals' full launch, that time would be now.

It's the last week before the Xmas break, and the grapevine runneth dry. Soon, we will commence the annual Engluttification ceremony, a ritual of banishment in which we feed the Maw our entire Steam wishlists while singing an arcane carol of our own devising, Nth Days of Solstice, in which the famous partridge in the pear tree has Twice-Twenty Wings, and on each Wing I saw an Eye, verily, and a Mouth rejoicing for lo, the Great Catch-Up Period has come. But before that, there is still a little more News to cover.

Following the recent Skyrim update that re-enabled paid mods through the new unified Creations platform, I had a brief chat with Skyblivion lead developer Rebelzize.

When developing Baldur’s Gate 3, the studio took inspiration from some games you might not expect.

Lawrence Sullivan, better known as «Florida Joker» for his extensive set of facial tattoos, has doubled down, posting a second video that asserts Rockstar owes him financial restitution for allegedly using his likeness in GTA 6.

Recently we went hands-on with Ubisoft's upcoming Metroidvania, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. It's slashing its way onto PS5 and PS4 in January, bringing the series back to PlayStation for the first time since 2010. But after all this time, how is this latest adventure shaping up? And will it be worth that 14-year wait? Well, from our two hours with the game, we'd say fans of the series have a fun and vibrant adventure on their hands, and we personally are looking forward to jumping back into it.

By Sheena Vasani, a writer covering commerce, e-readers, and tech news. She previously wrote about everything from web development to AI at Inside.

Godzilla rarely gets the recognition he deserves, both as a hero and as one of fiction’s most flexible characters. But with the recent slew of great, or at least great-looking, Godzilla projects, it’s finally the giant atomic lizard’s time to shine.

Like previous entries in the series, Mortal Kombat 1 is rolling out plenty of DLC fighters, with the game’s first “Kombat Pack” including Omni-Man from Invincible, Quan Chi, Peacemaker from Suicide Squad, Ermac, Homelander from The Boys, and Takahashi Takeda.

Like previous entries in the series, Mortal Kombat 1 is rolling out plenty of DLC fighters, with the game’s first “Kombat Pack” including Omni-Man from Invincible, Quan Chi, Peacemaker from Suicide Squad, Ermac, Homelander from The Boys, and Takahashi Takeda.

Happy Skull and Bones beta day for all that sail with her! I’m definitely going to be taking to the seas this weekend, and seeing if all those years of development have panned out. Hell, all I want is multiplayer Black Flag, and the trailers sure look like that’s what Ubisoft has made, so fingers crossed I’ll be pleasantly surprised. Other than that, I’ve been playing lots of another Ubisoft joint, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and I’ll be popping a score on that one after the weekend. It’s safe to say I’m thoroughly enjoying it though!

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is here, and the Massive-Entertainment-developed game is surprisingly complex, offering a huge open world, survival mechanics, crafting system, combat, and more. It can all be a lot to take in at first, but we’re here to help.

Better get it now before it goes out of stock again.

Brutal. When you're a gamer who regularly tries to sink or swim in the deep end of difficulties, like I do, that word is one of the most complimentary you can use. And I've got to say it: after a 3-hour blind run into the Immortal difficulty of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, it has all the makings of being deliciously, refreshingly brutal.

Winterfest is Fortnite’s annual Christmas event that gives players a chance to take part in various festive activities while earning some time-limited, themed cosmetics. For Winterfest 2023, players can earn free gifts every day, but they’ll need to show dedication.

Grand Theft Auto is a massive franchise, and we knew that the next installment would have a ton of attention. After all, it’s been since 2013 that we were dealing with the last new mainline installment for the series. With each new game release, we see Rockstar Games push the envelope. It’s all about making the next game bigger and better, so there is a ton of hype about what exactly we can do in Grand Theft Auto VI. We knew that after the first trailer was released, fans would look for every little detail that they could uncover.

Hot new FPS on the block The Finals has only been out for seven days, but that’s more than enough time for a meta to form. It’s good news for fans of the tanky Heavy, but seemingly bad news for everyone else.

The superhero genre has come a long way over the past 20 years. The MCU kicked off an era of Marvel movies dominating at the box office, with four films currently sitting in the top ten highest-grossing movies of all time. DC hasn't quite capitalized on the momentum Marvel has generated, although it has shown glimpses via blockbusters like Joker and The Batman. Both sides of the superhero coin have been treated equally regardless on the Funko Pop! front too, and a two-pack celebrating a very popular pair of DC villains is now available for pre-order.

Have you got your tickets? TheSoul Publishing has teamed up with gaming giant Kokku to bring us a virtual concert experience in Roblox. Starting today, you can attend the week-long Roblox Polar Concert and step into the world where gaming meets music.

Comments made by Disney's head of gaming, Sean Shoptaw, suggest that the long-awaited Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake is still on the way.

Remember back in June, when Hideo Kojima—you know, the Policenauts guy—made headlines for asking someone, anyone to please send him to space? He made that request as part of an upcoming documentary called Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds, which got its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival last summer.

This year GamesBeat was part of the 2023 Game Awards in L.A., as part of a mini GB event, “Pixels to Pop Culture,” exploring the intersection of game industry creatives, Hollywood and a growing audience’s hunger for new IP.

Hurry up and get your holiday viewing out of the way this year because the presents are arriving early. On Dec. 22, Mubi, the highly curated, cinema-forward streaming service, is unleashing a collection of films celebrating the high-impact fight films of Shaw Brothers Studio. Founded in 1958, the Chinese studio became synonymous with martial arts movies, with classics ranging from straight wushu fight dramas to more fantastical wuxia odysseys.

Google searches of 2023: Your Google search history for 2023 has arrived. Well, actually, the world's. On Monday, the California-based tech giant released its “Year in Search,” a roundup of 2023's top global queries, ranging from unforgettable pop culture moments (hello, Barbenheimer ), to the loss of beloved figures and tragic news carrying worldwide repercussions.

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2K Games, best known for games like BioShock and NBA 2K, just threw us a curveball. They dropped a new Civilization title. Nope, it’s not Civilization 7. It’s Civilization: Eras & Allies! So, did a title just pop out of nowhere?

Rocket Racing has just been released on Fortnite. In usual fashion, there seem to be matchmaking errors. What’s going on? Is Rocket Racing down?

Hideo Kojima's OD reveal at The Game Awards 2023 contained a not-so-subtle reference to PT, the long-dead demo for his cancelled Silent Hills project.

What would a global disaster look like from inside a really, really nice Airbnb? That’s the question posed — and answered, in a fairly gripping way — by Leave the World Behind, a luxe Netflix thriller adapted by Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail from Rumaan Alam’s 2020 novel. But this isn’t another “eat the rich” (or “lick the rich”) classist fable, in spite of some architectural similarities between its setup (and its actual architecture) and those in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite. Leave the World Behind gently prods at some racial and economic sore spots, but ultimately, it isn’t about conflict. Its well-to-do characters have more commonalities than differences. It’s a view of what happens when the bubble bursts, seen entirely from inside the bubble.

A couple of months after Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the United States Federal Trade Commission has approached a federal appeals court this week to unwind the deal. According to CNN, the FTC has argued that district judge Jacqueline Scott Corley went too far with her ruling allowing the acquisition.

Iron Man kicked off the MCU more than a decade ago, brought the Infinity Saga to an end by finally slaying Thanos, and there are even rumors Robert Downey Jr. will somehow reprise the role in the future. Suffice to say, the character, who many labeled the wrong choice to kick off the MCU, is one of the most popular superheroes on the planet. One that has enough Funko Pops that you could exclusively collect Iron Man figures, and later today - Friday, December 8, 2023 - you'll be able to add one more to that collection.

You could say that Cyberpunk 2077 hasn't had the easiest of rides. Perhaps after the years of hyperbole that was deserved, but what can't be denied is that CD Projekt Red re-trenched after the initial reception, stuck by the game, and has delivered consistent improvements that all led up to this year's major 2.0 update. That was supposed to be the end of it but a few days ago, surprise surprise, patch 2.1 popped up with even more improvements: and a little bit of meme history.

Even though there was still no mention of it at The Game Awards - to be expected since Nintendo prefers to do its own thing - the widely held belief, almost expectation at this point, is that the Switch's successor will be announced, and maybe even launch, in 2024. That means the amiibos coming our way during the first two months of 2024 will be the Switch's last, and maybe even Nintendo's last if amiibos aren't a factor on the Switch 2. First Xenoblade's Noah and Mio, and then Sora, the final Smash amiibo which finally received a firm release date this week.

The Finals, the new destruction-heavy multiplayer shooter from the Battlefield-veterans at Embark Studios has been inching closer to release throughout this year with a series of betas, but today during The Game Awards the game officially went live. The game is now free-to-play, just pop onto your platform of choice and get downloading. You can check out a new launch trailer for The Finals, below.

Do you like paragliding, exosuits, loot, and tornadoes? Do you like all of those things at once? Then you might enjoy the just-announced Exoborne, a tactical open world shooter from Sharkmob, the Swedish studio behind Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt. Running on Unreal Engine 5 and set in fictional, near-future Colton County, USA, it's a PvPvE affair in which you roam a big ruined map either alone or as a team, fighting other players, NPCs and renegade "natural" elements. Published by Level Infinite, it'll be a premium game with live service elements and microtransactions, and there's no release date yet. I caught a briefing before today's announcement, and yeah, it looks all right.

Despite claiming that it had no plans to release DLC for Final Fantasy XVI, Square Enix announced at The Game Awards that Final Fantasy XVI is getting not one but two pieces of DLC. They're called Echoes of the Fallen and Rising Tide, and the former is available to play right now.

It’s always a good bet that Hideo Kojima may pop up to show something at The Game Awards, and he didn’t disappoint this evening. No, he didn’t show Death Stranding 2, instead he finally teased his long-ago announced Xbox-exclusive project. The first teaser focused on super-detailed facial animations of the game’s cast, including Sophia Lillis (the new It films), Hunter Schafer (Euphoria), and legendary German actor Udo Kier. Whatever he’s cooking up will make use of Xbox’s cloud tech, although it also seems to be playing off the fan-favorite P.T. with a reoccurring opening door motif. The game’s tagline seems to be “For all players and screamers.” You can check out the teaser trailer, below.

Matthew McConaughey popped up at the Game Awards this evening to announce he is going to be in a video game.

Get your wallets ready because the soon-to-be “Dearly Beloved” Sora amiibo is on its way. The latest Super Smash Bros. amiibo arrives on February 16.

Fortnite is constantly doing crossovers, so the announcement that Epic had teamed up with Lego for a new survival mode glanced off my consciousness like the announcement of a new line of Funko Pops. But we just tried the mode, which has already attracted over two million concurrent players after launching today, and it's way bigger and more fun than we anticipated—and, of course, free.

There are multiple mysteries and locations for you to explore in LEGO Fortnite. One of the stranger mysteries is the rift islands you can find floating in your LEGO world and what you’re supposed to do when you find them.

Greetings, Adventurers!

IGN Roundtable is a brand new initiative we're starting that brings together the best and brightest in the worlds gaming, film, TV, and pop culture to talk about what’s really on their minds. From the state of the industry to inspirations, you never know what’s going to happen at these one-of-a-kind chats between legends.

There's snow on the ground, magic in the air, and the doors on your advent calendar have begun popping open to reveal the treasures inside. That can only mean one thing: It is time to look at Geoff Keighley. The Game Awards—an awards show, but for games—returns tonight, December 7, and promises to bring with it a gamut of premieres and trailers that you'll probably want to tune in for.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

There are a few things a TV show, video game, or movie franchise should be on the look out for should their creators ever seek confirmation that they've officially made it. No, I'm not talking about box office revenue and units sold, who cares about that? I am, of course, referring to Lego sets and Funko Pops. If a character you've played on-screen has been turned into a Funko Pop! figure, then that means people love it enough to want it in their homes, and Homelander from The Boys, despite being a downright despicable villain, already has a few.

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.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, after months of leaks, rumours, and speculation, are finally coming to Fortnite. Each Turtle has their own skin, meaning we've got Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello getting ready to drop from the Battle Bus. Good time to get your friends together for a squad, eh?

Thank Goodness You're Here was one of our favourite announcements from Gamescom earlier in the year, and it continues to look brilliantly bonkers in this new glimpse at gameplay.

Whether you know it or not, your phone might the most powerful gaming handheld you own. While the advent of handheld gaming PCs like the Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally offer excellent solutions for gaming on the go, you don’t have to drop several hundred bucks to game away from your console or phone. The rise of cloud gaming services, remote game streaming apps, plus amazing dedicated mobile games make it easy to turn most phones into powerful and versatile handhelds.

By Brandon Widder, a senior editor overseeing deals, gift guides, and commerce. He spent six years spearheading buying guides and consumer tech coverage at Digital Trends.

You know those dystopian notions of seas boiling over thanks to climate change? Well, China has a neat idea to accelerate a process which is already giving us the warmest sea surface temps on record. Heating up the oceans directly with computers.

A strange glitch is causing frustration for many longtime Instagram users. Reports have found that the oldest posted videos on the platform are suddenly losing their audio without any explanation. This has not been reported on any of the newer videos, but the ones posted in or around 2014. This is also not a case of audio being intentionally removed from the video due to copyright issues, as Instagram informs the user both in-app and via email of the steps taken. Users who have reported the issue have not received any such message from the company.

Fortnite's latest event has brought the likes of Peter Griffin and Metal Gear's legendary solider Snake to the island for the first time. Most of the changes have been received pretty well, apart from the animation tweaks that a fan doxxed a developer over, but there is one certain feature that Metal Gear fans in particular are up in arms over. Snake has been thoroughly de-caked once again.

Marvel Comics is shoring up its Black History Month celebration for February 2024 with a new selection of variant covers featuring Black heroes from across the Marvel Universe, and drawn by Black artists.

It’s the end of the year. People are starting to think about Christmas gifts. And high on the list of many a family will be a Nintendo Switch. But is it actually worth it?

The Royal Hourglass is Disney Dreamlight Valley’s latest tool, which you’ll use to solve puzzles and find hidden treasures in the game’s A Rift in Time expansion.

Baldur's Gate 3 has a lot of words—and even 'a lot of words' is a major understatement. In a Steam post before the game's release, it was revealed the game's total script is about 2 million words long. For context, all five books in the current Game of Thrones series add up to about 1.7 million words. Big. It's a big game.

Rockstar has released the first official trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 early, and in 12 hours it's already smashed through 60 million views (and counting). Needless to say the 90-second video is jam-packed full of details and hints about what we'll be getting up to in Vice City, and if you want the nuts-and-bolts breakdown we've got you covered. But one element of the trailer really jumped out at me: TikTok framing, and the real-world parallels.

Amelia Tyler, the voice behind Baldur's Gate 3's narrator, revealed her favorite line from her favorite subplot in Larian Studios' critically acclaimed role-playing game (RPG). 

Well, it was scheduled for December 5, 2023, but it looks like a leak forced Rockstar Games’ hand. The first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI is here. It’s our first look into the trailer, which finally sets us up for the next game after dealing with Grand Theft Auto V since 2013. As previously reported, the trailer is just a minute and thirty seconds long. So, while it’s not the most lengthy trailer fans might have hoped for, it gives us our first official look and confirms some of the leaks, along with some industry insider reports that have popped up over the past year. 

Over the weekend, Epic Games made memes a reality by adding Family Guy family guy Peter Griffin to the all-consuming Fortnite universe.