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may unofficially share a universe with — or at least be inspired by — an underrated science fiction show. When it was first announced, was described as the first original IP to come out of Bethesda in over 25 years. And it is — it's set in its own, original universe, featuring characters, settings, and lore all its own. It obviously draws a lot from Bethesda's previous games like , and its sources of inspiration clearly don't end there.

continues the welcome series trend of providing players with a large variety of weapons to choose from, ensuring multiple play styles are viable in its large open world. The lands of from the British Isles to Norway, are littered with weapons aplenty, ranging from swiftly maneuverable swords to damage-dealing flails. Some weapons in however, stand out among the pack.

has certainly received its fair share of criticism, and Bethesda titles are always put under intense scrutiny despite their popularity, but the studio has a knack for including impressive details that are easily lost within the games' vast worlds. None are more vast than either, with over 1,000 explorable planets and moons littering its expansive game world. Despite so much getting lost in 's ambitious breadth, there is still one detail which follows through on an off-hand comment made toward the beginning of the game, displaying Bethesda's dedication in making the Settled Systems feel contiguous.

The UK government said it would use a major summit in South Korea this week to make a fresh push on reducing the risks around artificial intelligence, putting an onus on firms to develop AI responsibly.

The series has become a celebrated franchise in the pantheon of Nintendo IP, and the upcoming release of is another chapter in that legacy. The most important accomplishment of the original was giving Luigi an identity of his own, one that distinguished him from his more famous brother. Just as Mario has an enemy in Bowser, the first game gave Luigi an eternal nemesis all his own — King Boo. Even as the green plumber encounters new bosses with each installment, it never fails that King Boo is behind the mayhem.

The Power Armor that players can find and wear in is always cool but with one small mod, it's made even better and significantly more intimidating. As the game's community continues to swell thanks to the success of Prime Video's streaming series, many have begun turning to mods to make Bethesda's RPG feel a little more like the Wasteland seen in the show. Some of these are small add-ons that just tweak visual and UI elements to evoke some of the series' imagery, but others are made to make role-playing a priority.

Netflix’s new animated movie Thelma the Unicorn is full of soulful rock music, but one number stands out like a neon-colored sore thumb: “Here Comes the Cud.” And that’s deliberate. Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie designed “Here Comes the Cud” to be as disgustingly catchy and synthetic as possible. Creating a viral sensation — or at least, a number that could pass for a viral sensation within a movie’s fictional world — is a tall order. Thelma directors Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) and Lynn Wang (Cartoon Network’s UniKitty! series) talked to Polygon about how they conceived and planned it.

Snap Inc. Chief Executive Officer Evan Spiegel said he's investing more aggressively in bringing artificial intelligence and machine learning to Snapchat to make it more interesting for its users, the next major shift after years spent overhauling its advertising business.

iOS 17.5 houses a bug that has been plaguing iPhone users and it appears that there is more to the story than originally expected. The update brought its fair share of issues with it, as users have been complaining of a bug that is making deleted photos reappear in photo libraries. However, it appears that the situation is more serious than originally anticipated as users who have sold their devices to strangers are also impacted, and it is a huge violation of privacy on Apple's part.

Something that makes television amazing is how it can build stories across hours, months, and years, expand whole worlds into deep and intense narratives, and beam it right into our homes, our brains. Something else incredible about TV is how sometimes the only thing people remember is the ending.

2K, publisher of major franchises such as ,, and , could steal the show at Summer Game Fest following a new announcement. Summer Game Fest has essentially replaced E3 in terms of being the main gaming event for major studios and companies to show off their upcoming titles, with a live event that kicks it all off followed by a series of further livestreams over the following days, and with the event taking place in June, many companies are already starting to tease what they have in store.

A fan's real-life power armor shows off the rebellious side of the Brotherhood of Steel, by referring to one of the branches featured in. The Brotherhood of Steel is a quasi-religious paramilitary order focused on preserving advanced technology and regulating its usage in a post-war society, believing that humanity cannot be trusted with the means to destroy itself and keeping this technology from them could prevent another apocalypse.

A new set of cards for the expansion has been revealed, and they are a welcome throwback to one of the franchise’s best regions. is an upcoming Japan-exclusive set that will focus on several creatures from the Land of Kitakami, as it portrays elements of ’s epilogue. Nevertheless, it also contains several Pokémon, trainers, and locations from other locations. It has recently been announced that the set will be partially converted for the release of in the Western market in August.

Keepsakes are important tools to help Melinoë through the various regions of the Underworld and Surface in . Each Keepsake provides a unique and powerful buff that lasts for as long as you have the Keepsake equipped (with a couple of exceptions). They also represent your relationships with the gods and mythical beings you encounter.

While Bridgerton’s alternate history means the show is already much more racially diverse than other Regency-era romances, the show so far has still been very heteronormative and deeply patriarchal, even with Queen Charlotte ruling. If women can’t even inherit property without a man or an heir, they definitely can’t kiss other women (and same goes for dudes).

In one of the first scenes of the new comedy Babes, free-spirited Eden (Ilana Glazer) gets down on her knees to peer at her best friend’s vagina. Pragmatic Dawn (Michelle Buteau) is going into labor, and Eden is trying to gauge how far along she is, to figure out whether they can continue to eat brunch, or they need to get Dawn to a hospital right away. It’s immediately clear that director Pamela Adlon is not holding back when it comes to the grosser details of pregnancy and childbirth, and using them to full comedic potential.

Yesterday, Epic Games teased an upcoming Fallout crossover with Fortnite in Chapter 5, Season 3. This is entirely unsurprising, as Epic has always tried to bring the hottest entertainment franchises across all media to Fortnite in an attempt to maintain interest in the game.

With renewed interest in the post-apocalyptic series thanks to the Fallout TV show, it was only a matter of time before we started seeing the Brotherhood of Steel in Epic's multiverse. With a new official teaser having just landed, it looks like that time is Fortnite Season 3.

The upcoming expansion for the is set to feature over 200 cards in total, and some will undoubtedly be of great interest to any collector. In addition to the main set, the release of will be accompanied by unmissable new promo cards, including one that is the first of its kind for the . With the game continuing to grow and innovate, and rare Pokémon cards becoming easier to collect all the time, is attracting plenty of interest as its release date draws near.

Since 2014, has been using and supporting its fifth edition. Thanks to some good luck, massive gaming projects, and famous fan shows, 5e has become most popular version, breaking into the mainstream. Several factors can be attributed to this, such as 5e's ease of play compared to older versions and shows like and popularizing the tabletop RPG for wider audiences. 's success has also helped in this regard, and all three have been made during the 5e era, but is looking to move beyond its fifth edition.

Since the release of the TV show, the next game has some explaining to do. The TV series is the latest-set entry in the franchise, and incorporates people, places, and things from across the decades of lore — even if it does leave out one major recurring character. But as hard as the TV show tries to stay canon-neutral, it makes its own impact on the universe, too. Sticking closest to one of ' endings as the true outcome for the Mojave Wasteland, the TV series clearly has its own take on canon.

First published by Games Workshop in 1983, Talisman: The Magical Quest Game is remembered fondly by kids who grew up with board games in the 1980s and early 1990s. But the last version of the dungeon crawling board game, its fourth, was published way back in 2008, well before the modern board gaming Renaissance really began. Now Hasbro is bringing it back for a fifth edition. Pre-orders, priced at $59.99, are live now. The game returns to mass market retail on July 1.

Fortnite has officially announced that a Fallout collaboration is on the way.

According to a pair of content creators, the wait for a new Valve game is almost over: A third-person hero shooter called Deadlock is in closed alpha and an announcement seems imminent.

A new update is on the way and with it new Pal variants have been revealed. took the world by storm, releasing in early 2024 and quickly topping the charts for the most players and copies sold. The game launched with a few known issues, but the developers quickly worked to address them and update the game with new and exciting features to keep players interested. There have been a few updates over the last few months, but this is the first time more than one new Pal has been introduced in an update, or in general, since the game released.

With Fallout being everywhere right now, it’s only fair that it joins Fortnite, too. Epic Games teased on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday that the iconic open-world RPG series will be coming to Fortnite.

Fallout is one of the next big collaborations coming to Fortnite, which seemingly confirms the rumours that Chapter 5, Season 3 will have an apocalypse theme.

I Saw the TV Glow is a rare treat of a movie. It’s equal parts dense, complicated, funny, and sad, all while being an absolute joy to watch. Its story is equally concerned with the pain of loving a TV show that ended too soon, and the pain of letting your whole life slip by without ever truly knowing yourself. Finding ways to communicate all these complicated ideas while still making a watchable, entertaining film is a big task, but TV Glow writer-director Jane Schoenbrun has experience with that.

This Week in Business is our weekly recap column, a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. Check every Friday for a new entry.

Player1 Events has reportedly laid off an unknown number of staff, believed to be the majority of the company, and shut down long-running UK video games event Insomnia Gaming Festival.

US publishing giant Take-Two made $5.35 billion in revenue for the year ending March 31st, 2024.

Sony has replaced outgoing CEO Jim Ryan with an all-star tag-team partnership: Hermen Hulst will lead PS Studios and its intellectual property, while Hideaki Nishino will focus on hardware and services. The pair, together, will be tasked with leading PlayStation into a new era, as PS5 enters the latter half of its lifecycle and the company explores new initiatives, like PC, mobile, and television.

We kind of already knew about this, thanks to a report from last year, but now it's all official. Amazon Prime Video has greenlit a live-action Tomb Raider TV series, with Phoebe Waller-Bridge attached as writer and executive producer. Here's the official post on the Tomb Raider site.

We're getting closer and closer to gaming's annual announcement season. Every summer sees the industry turn out for a few weeks of pre-recorded presentations and live broadcasts, all showcasing what's coming up in the near future. With E3 now sadly a thing of the past, the biggest of these events is now Summer Game Fest, created and hosted by Geoff Keighley. Whatever games you enjoy, it sounds like this will be worth watching — a lot of game developers and publishers are taking part.

Paper Trail is a puzzle game which takes a simple premise, folding and unfolding paper, to create a unique experience. You play from the perspective of Paige, a young woman who leaves home to pursue her academic dreams whilst meeting some weird and wonderful characters along the way.

Enormous asymmetrical horror outing Dead by Daylight is showing no signs of slowing, with its eighth anniversary ushering in some enormous collaborations. Dungeons & Dragons is the latest intellectual property to invade the series, with an upcoming expansion adding iconic villain Vecna as a new Killer and a Bard as a Survivor. Konami’s Castlevania will also infiltrate the series later in the year, although details are being kept under wraps for now.

NieR director Yoko Taro, NieR series producer Yosuke Saito, and NieR composer Keiichi Okabe are all working on a new game together, it's been confirmed, but nobody's willing to say whether the project is actually a NieR title yet. Speaking to Famitsu, Saito teased: «I'll have something a bit more put-together to say in the not-too-distant future, so please stay tuned. It might be NieR, it might not be NieR. (Laughs.)»

With Stellar Blade now out in the wild, impressing players with its action combat and plethora of cosmetic options for protagonist Eve, Shift Up director Kim Hyeong-tae has put a particular conspiracy to bed. Kim says that the redesigns of some Stellar Blade outfits were always intended to be the «final result» and not because of an overbearing Sony intent on censorship.

Concord, the PS5 and PC shooter from new Sony team Firewalk Studios, will deploy in 2024 – at least, that’s the plan according to a business briefing from the Japanese giant. While the firm notes that release schedules are always subject to change, it included the title’s tentative launch window in a live service slide alongside Destiny 2: The Final Shape, which is due out on 6th June.

HBO created a lot more The Last of Us fans with its super successful TV adaptation. The first season launched last year, finding a huge audience and critical acclaim, and the second series is now in production, heading to screens in 2025. Now, the company has provided our very first look at official shots from the anticipated new season:

First announced in December of last year, Visions of Mana has been stuck with a vague 'summer' release window for months — but now, it seems highly likely that a confirmed date is heading our way in the near future.

Geoff Keighley has revealed next month's Summer Game Fest live show will host the reveal of a new entry in one of 2K's «biggest and most beloved franchises». Given today's newly revealed sales milestones, the most likely options appear to be BioShock (43 million), Borderlands (89 million), or even Civilization (71 million). Another outside bet could be the Mafia series, which already has a new instalment confirmed to be in the works alongside BioShock.

Shōgunis an early contender for 2024’s best TV show. The series, which debuted in February, is smart, complicated, tremendously well made, beautifully acted, and the most watched FX series ever, according to a press release from the network. All of which makes Thursday’s announcement that the show is coming back for more season pretty unsurprising. The only question that remains is what exactly those seasons are going to be about.

The latest issue of V-Jump has revealed that Goten, Kid Trunks, Kale, Caulifla, and their respective fusions are all going to be playable in Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero.

Warner Bros. has released new pictures of season 2 of critically acclaimed show The Last of Us, showcasing Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey reprising their roles of Joel and Ellie respectively.

The main visual for Tokyo Game Show 2024 has been unveiled by organiser Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (via Gematsu). The art, which you can see above, features a vibrant colour palette, with a seeming emphasis on white and blue, and was created by illustrator Kukka.

Activision is known as the Call of Duty publisher, but now it’s trying something different. The company announced Thursday that it’s formed a new internal studio called Elsewhere Entertainment that is dedicated to developing a “new narrative-based and genre-defining AAA franchise.”

In school, I once learned about British politics. I don’t remember the details, but our teacher showed us a video of a rancorous debate in the House of Commons. Shouts of Parliament members echoed throughout the chambers, and people booed in disapproval to someone speaking at a mic. People squished up next to each other like a loose mosh pit and waved papers at each other. It’s unruly, it’s chaotic — and it’s also exactly how I imagine Cloti and Clerith shippers would have it out if you corralled them all up and tossed them into a single hall to debate the best love interest for Final Fantasy 7 protagonist Cloud Strife.

It’s nearly that time of year when – for a week or two – there’s actual game news. And this not-E3 might be the most important yet.

When the revised 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons becomes available on Sept. 17, the world will finally get a taste of the seminal role-playing game’s upgraded mechanics. But D&D’s most dedicated fans will likely have a head start. The Player’s Handbook (2024), including a version with a special alternate art cover, hits brick-and-mortar shelves first on Sept. 3.

Leaked set photos have allegedly given us our first look at Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia in Season 4 of Netflix's The Witcher, just days after images of a stunt double emerged.

After our previous report on the area changes from the PTR and Patch 1.4.0 now being live, we decided to visit The Lost City of Ureh in Hawezar once again. New changes to The Lost City of Ureh area have been made in the time between the PTR and Live, blocking off the entrance to the city once again. Lost City of Ureh PTR Area Changes Diablo 4 Patch 1.4.0 Datamined Changes

The latest build of The War Within Alpha has a huge leak — literally. It also comes with several updates to Cooking recipes and reagents! We previously datamined vegetable weapons coming in The War Within, and now we've partially discovered how to obtain Extra Large Leak! Datamining has revealed the Extra Large Leak spell, which shows that combining 999 Twined Herbs.

Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association has unveiled the main visual for Tokyo Game Show 2024, which was created by illustrator Kukka for the fifth consecutive year. This year’s theme is “Trailblaze the World with Gaming.”

The rogue-like action of ends when you beat a run, but only one path you unlock is considered the ending of the game. As Zagreus ends up back at the House of Hades again and again, you learn how to better reach the surface toward a hidden truth. Only by reaching the surface many times will you reach a satisfying conclusion to the story of the Underworld's Prince.

Voice performance has become isolating work over the years — these days, for an actor like JP Karliak, a day “on set” is completed from a home studio, and notes come in over Zoom calls. But the goals are the same: find the perfect sound to match a character, and relentlessly chase the perfect take. Karliak has done voice work across the animation and video game spectrum, and is no stranger to IP demands. He’s been in everything from The Boss Baby: Back in Business to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, where he played Batman’s nemesis, Joker. Taking over the role of Morph in Marvel Animation’s X-Men ’97, voiced in the original series by actor Ron Rubin, put him under high pressure from nostalgic fans. Still, alone in the room, he found it: his own pure voice.

A new update on the Toys For Bob website has Crash Bandicoot fans in a frenzy, as the site has shed its former appearance and is now displaying a purple tiki mask on a black background.

A player shared an interesting way to have multiple villagers living on their farm without the need for mods. There are many ways that players can choose to play through the cozy farming simulator, and marrying villagers is one of the more popular choices that players make. Some players choose to court just one of the candidates per play through, but others choose to create a drama-filled Pelican Town fit for a soap opera. Without mods, it's possible to date multiple characters at once, but only one villager can move onto the farm, unless players use one simple workaround.

With a plethora of podcast apps available in the Play Store, discovering a good one can be challenging. We've done the hard work for you and curated a list of some of the most popular podcast apps that we believe deserve your attention.

Netflix’s adaptation of Cixin Liu’s novel The Three-Body Problem and its sequels is coming back for a second season, and potentially more, the streaming service announced on Wednesday. It seems that the renewal is for however many seasons the series needs to wrap up. The announcement came with a quote from the series’ showrunners that’s focused on the end of the series, though they don’t specify how many seasons that might involve.

Marvel has spent the last 16 years bringing some of its most iconic comic book characters to life, introducing them to millions more people than ever knew of them in the comics through the MCU's movies and TV shows. Odds are you'd not heard much, if anything, about characters like Ant-Man, Captain Marvel, and Drax before the MCU. Particularly Drax and the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy who shot to stardom thanks to their first movie. Fast forward a decade and Groot is now well-loved enough to have an entire range of his own Funko Pops drop all at the same time.

Developer Crystal Dynamics has inked a deal with Amazon to bring a Tomb Raider TV show to Prime Video.

Sci-fi and fantasy epics on television have come a long way in the last several years, but you could be forgiven for finding it hard to believe that Max’s upcoming Dune prequel series could live up to the majesty of Denis Villeneuve’s massive movies. However, the Dune: Prophecy trailer, which came out on Wednesday morning, is here to prove you wrong.

Late last year, Polygon showed that Kickstarter’s earnings from tabletop games were down for the second straight year, an abrupt change following more than a decade of uninterrupted growth. Our analysis also showed that the number of successful campaigns was up sharply compared to previous years. Now two high-profile campaigns, both removed from the website for different reasons, show how this increase in velocity may be straining the Brooklyn-based crowdfunding pioneer’s resources.

Tango Gameworks will update Hi-Fi Rush one last time before Microsoft shuts the door on the studio. Microsoft announced earlier in May that it was closing three studios, including Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks. Shortly after the news of the closures, Tango Gameworks confirmed the game will “remain available and playable everywhere” it's already accessible.

Will there ever be an 11th team of the Formula 1 grid again? Andretti is trying their damnedest to make it a reality, but in the meantime, video games are here to let us all live the fantasy of having and managing our own custom team.

HBO has revealed the first official images from the second season of The Last of Us, which shows Ellie and Joel looking a lot older. Well, Joel certainly looks older, at least.

Cameos: They’re not just videos that actors do in their living rooms for money! In its excellent first season, the X-Men ’97 writers have had a lot of fun giving viewers little views into the Marvel Universe beyond the X-Mansion. A quick glimpse of Spider-Man here, a conversation between Rogue and Captain America there — it’s a thrilling old-school approach to comic book cameos that signals the scale of what’s happening instead of teasing the potential for spinoffs.

Five years after Amazon.com Inc. raised wages to $15 an hour, half of warehouse workers surveyed by researchers say they struggle to afford enough food or a place to live.

Netflix Inc. is finalizing a deal to acquire exclusive rights to stream two National Football League games on Christmas Day, according to people with knowledge of the matter, a major step forward in the streaming service's experiment with live programming.

 The wait for the Stardew Valley Update 1.6 continues, but creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone tweeted that he’s tilling the digital soil to bring it to your devices as soon as possible.

Today, we are looking at the DPS rankings during the week of May 7th for Cataclysm Classic Pre-Patch in Icecrown Citadel. For this analysis, we will use data provided by Warcraft Logs Icecrown Citadel statistics. Warcraft Logs' Icecrown Citadel Statistics

Today, we are looking at the DPS rankings during the week of May 7th for Phase 3 of Season of Discovery in Sunken Temple. For this analysis, we will use data provided by Warcraft Logs Sunken Temple statistics. Warcraft Logs' Sunken Temple Statistics

Jagex dropped the roadmap for their high fantasy open-world MMORPG RuneScape during a livestream yesterday. It shows what’s to come for the rest of the year. There are new modes, new dungeons and more. If you’re a ‘Scaper, then follow along for all the details on the RuneScape 2024 roadmap!

Amazon has commissioned a new Tomb Raider TV series for Prime Video, with Phoebe Waller-Bridge acting as writer and executive producer.

Taliesin and Evitel cover the latest news in The Weekly Reset. This week they cover lore reveals in Patch 10.2.7: Dark Heart, the A Whisper of Warning short story, and the War Within Alpha.

The recently released Pixel 8a is one of the best phones on the market for those who are looking for a device that is affordable but also packs a punch. There are several reasons to choose this device, like the fact that it is more affordable than its elder siblings while maintaining most of what makes the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro so good. However, benchmarks of the newly released budget Pixel tell a slightly different story.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas lawmakers on Tuesday raised questions about a sheriff's decision to allow a Netflix documentary series to be filmed at the county jail, with one critic saying the move exploited inmates.