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It is a radical form of recycling. Calendars from 1996 are being reused for 2024 as both are leap years that begin on a Monday. The quirk has sparked a flurry of interest on the internet, with 1990s nostalgia fans chasing down vintage calendars nearly 30 years old. As last year came to an end, people began posting about how the 1996 calendar works neatly in 2024, with one TikTok clip garnering over 1.5 million views. Another viral post, this time on X (formerly Twitter), playfully reminds people to start reusing their carefully saved calendars featuring then-child star Jonathan Taylor Thomas -- who is now aged 42.

Stern Pinball just launched a new pinball table based on Steven Spielberg’s classic thriller Jaws. It’s the latest in a long line of licensed movie-based games from Stern, which has released Jurassic Park, James Bond, Godzilla, Star Wars, and Ghostbusters-inspired tables over the past decade.

One of the great bonuses of buying a new console is when platform holders add the ability to play classic games, such as having the option to play PS3 games on the PS5.

Niantic, the development team behind Pokemon Go, has had a difficult 2023 following the announcement they would be capping the number of Remote Raids players could do per day. A new test seems to be aiming to fix Raid access, but players want the removal of the nerf, not a break from it.

Marvel’s What If…? series director Bryan Andrews has opened up about a rejected pitch that would have seen with one another.

Plenty of battle royales are out there, and we continue to see new games released regularly. However, few seem to hit their strides and manage to gain a massive audience. One of the few games that have helped pave the way for the genre has been Fortnite, a game that captivated players worldwide. We’ve continued to see Epic support this title and deliver thrilling new events, crossovers, and maps. However, some fans always would like to step back to the good old days. Fortnite OG offered just that as it stripped back the game to its early years. 

The director of Daisy Ridley’s post-Rise of Skywalker Star Wars movie says it’s going to be "very special".

Yesterday (January 2), it temporarily appeared that Star Wars Outlaws’ vague 2024 release had been narrowed down with an all-new launch window. However, Ubisoft has now stated that this was an error, and the old, incorrect information has already been removed.

Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft's expansive open-world game set in the galaxy far, far away, was briefly known to be eyeing a ‘late 2024' release window, as per a recent Disney Parks blog. That has since been corrected to reflect a general timespan this year, with the publisher confirming to Kotaku that the timing was incorrectly displayed. First revealed during an Xbox Showcase last year, the title is set between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi movies, and introduces Kay Vess, a space scoundrel with a bounty on her head after botching up a job. Joining her on the crusade is the adorable axolotl-like alien Nix, performing certain actions at your command — akin to the BD-1 droid from Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.

A report stemming from a Disney Parks blog post earlier today suggested that the upcoming Ubisoft game would be coming out in late 2024. However, Ubisoft has since clarified the post in a statement.

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Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft's upcoming open world Star Wars game, is set to release "late this year", according to Disney. Announced via a Disney Parks blog post of all things, Star Wars Outlaws ranks as the No.22 most "Ooooh-Worthy Thing" out of the 2024 Disney Experiences line-up - which, considering the list only stretches to 24 entries is a bit of an unfair burn on the game, if you ask me, especially when No.21 is... *checks notes* new Disney Eats and Stitch clothes collections.

It's fair to say, in a game with endless customisation, that we quickly become bored of poor ol' Steve and want look a bit more unique. You can achieve this by trying out the best Minecraft skins you can download in the game right now.

Once someone has beaten the main story campaign of , the fun doesn't have to end, as the adventure can then be played fresh with its version of New Game Plus, called New Journey +. This mode gives more of a challenge for Cal and fun ways to experience the game differently with new perks, unlocks, and possibilities. The first time anyone plays through a game this detailed and large, it is natural that a lot of content could easily be missed out on, so having these incentives to go back and enjoy it again can be a good way to see more of the lore and story that might have passed players by originally.

promises a new single-player adventure in a galaxy far, far away, but that doesn't offer too much reassurance that it will be free of distracting monetization systems. Single-player games from publisher Ubisoft have consistently included microtransactions for some years, from minor cosmetic alterations to boosts that can affect the rate of gameplay progression. Hopefully, will stick to the least objectionable options, but it might be best to prepare for the worst and be surprised if things turn out better.

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With VGC’s regular posting for 2023 coming to a close, all that remains is to wish you an enjoyable holiday break and a happy new year!

The festive period is finally upon us, and what better time is there to kick back on the sofa and work through your watch list? As usual, too, this Christmas is jam-packed full of great new releases on streaming, meaning that there will be plenty to keep you occupied after stuffing yourself with turkey. Among the highlights are a festive Doctor Who special to kick off Ncuti Gatwa's season as the Time Lord as well as Zack Snyder's hugely-anticipated new sci-fi adventure, Rebel Moon Part One. 

Steam’s 2023 Winter Sale went live today, December 21. Running until 1:00 PM Eastern/10:00 AM Pacific on January 4, the Steam sale offers deals on a wide range of PC games. This includes up to 95% off on some titles.

Warning! This interview contains SPOILERS for EA's Jedi: SurvivorEA's is the sequel to, continuing the story of Jedi Cal Kestis as he attempts to fight the Empire during the Dark Times in an action-packed game allowing players to become Jedi themselves. Set in the aftermath of and the brutal purge known as Order 66, Cal Kestis has very few allies while attempting to maintain the ideals of the Jedi while also resisting the might of the Empire. Often facing overwhelming loss, Kestis' story is one of the timeline's most tragic and intense, and it's made even better by its rich and dynamic soundtrack.

Cal Kestis' journey to restore peace to the galaxy continues with . The sequel to the 2019 hit game finds Kestis building a team including old and new friends, namely Merrin, Greez, Cere, and single father Rebel Bode, as they look for a new home to rebuild the Jedi Order outside of the Empire's reach.

Video game music publisher Materia Music has acquired Australian gaming record label Boss Battle Records.

Make it through the entirety of Netflix’s new sci-fi adventure Rebel Moon Part One: A Child of Fire, and you’ll be greeted with the five most horrifying words in the English language: “Director of Photography: Zack Snyder.”

You’re going to need to track down several fish while exploring Disney Dreamlight Valley, which you can use in recipes, gift to your villagers, or sell them off. A unique creature you’ll want to hunt down is the Sea Snail.

missed the opportunity for a major character to make an appearance, but a new book reveals that might've been intentional. and its sequel, , visit 13 different planets from across the franchise. Each helps to tie in species, ships, heroes, and villains from the wider series, giving Cal Kestis a firm place in the canon.

Fortnite’s devouring of all pop culture into its gigantic maw continues apace, as leaks suggest that next on the menu for the IP-gobbling battle royale shooter is Metal Gear Solid’s Solid Snake and Family Guy’s Peter Griffin. (Don’t worry, The Maw is safe from the maw, for now.)

offers a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind the latest MCU adventure, showcasing interviews and on-set footage. Explore the intricate world-building, meet new characters, and delve into the Multiverse journey of this thrilling season.

This week's guest on the One More Life gaming podcast is Star Wars mega fan John Saavedra, editor-in-chief of Den of Geek, who joins host Rob Leane (RadioTimes.com gaming editor) to celebrate all things Star Wars gaming.

Ubisoft's beleaguered pirate adventure Skull and Bones is — following yet another delay back in October — reportedly now targeting a 16th February release next year.

LEGO Games have been going strong since the '90s and yet there's nothing as exciting as zooming around as Iron Man, smashing up the city as Hulk or summoning a giant lightning bolt as Thor in LEGO Marvel's Avengers.

Last week, rumors began floating around that the remake was effectively dead and no longer being developed. A new report suggests that isn’t true.

As reported by Axios, developer Aspyr has argued that a class action lawsuit brought against it over the cancellation of a Restored Content DLC for the Nintendo Switch version of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 — The Sith Lords should be dismissed. The DLC was announced in June of 2022 before getting canceled after a year of radio silence, with Aspyr offering customers a free game to make amends.

The planned remake is reportedly no longer in development, according to Giant Bomb’s Jeff Grubb in the latest episode of his Game Mess podcast.

The first and last official update we got on Star Wars: Knights of the Old – Republic was when it was announced a little over a couple of years ago. Last year, however, it was reported that the project had been indefinitely delayed and that developer Aspyr Media had been taken off the project, with subsequent reports claiming that Saber Interactive had stepped on to take the reins. However, it now seems the remake’s development has hit further roadblocks.

It’s been two weeks since Alan Wake 2, the sequel to Remedy Entertainment’s 2010 cult action-horror game, was released, and I can’t stop thinking about it. Between the introduction of protagonist and FBI profiler Saga Anderson and the mystery-board storytelling mechanics of the game’s Mind Place system (not to mention a forthcoming new game plus feature and DLC slated for next year), I’m obsessed with Remedy Entertainment’s latest game — much in the same way I was with its last new release, 2019’s Control.

Dacoco, the group behind the Alien Worlds Web3 metaverse, announced a collaboration with renowned science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson, known for works such as Star Wars, Dune and Saga of the Seven Suns.

Yoda's involvement in the original trilogy may have been short and sweet, but the upcoming DLC could be set to offer up some quality time with the wizened Jedi. This isn't the first collaboration between Mojang's sandbox game and a galaxy far, far away, with a previous mash-up pack focusing on settings and characters from the original trilogy and the Disney+ series sets its sights on the prequels instead, diving headfirst into the last days of the Republic for a proper gameplay experience.

Zynga’s upcoming free-to-play multiplayer combat game, Star Wars: Hunters, has once again been delayed, and is now slated for release at some point in 2024. 

A long time ago, in a press release that now seems far, far away, mobile game maker Zynga announced arena squad shooter Star Wars: Hunters for Nintendo Switch and smartphones.

After much speculation, Kevin Feige's Star Wars movie isn't happening after all.

Of all the iconic moments in Metal Gear Solid, the battle against Psycho Mantis is tough to top. It’s both a cool boss fight and a mild deconstruction of your gaming habits!

The Dark Droids arc has seen an ancient Sith weapon known as the Scourge spread its malign influence throughout the galaxy. It's turning droids against their organic masters and leading to a wave of murder across numerous worlds. And now it has its eyes set on the jewel in the Empire's crown: the planet Coruscant. 

PC players who want to continue hopping into online matches in some of ’s multiplayer titles may want to finally pull the trigger on an OS upgrade, as the publisher has announced that it is dropping support for Battlefield 1, Battlefield V, and Star Wars: Battlefront 2 on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1. While more recent games like 2021’s Battlefield 2042 will continue to be supported on the aging OSs, fans of this trio of titles will no longer have any guarantee that their games will work correctly.

Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2has received a brand new preview stream courtesy of developer The Chinese Room (TCR). The video is busting with details for the upcoming gothic horror RPG and also confirms that the game's main character will be fully voiced. 

Alan Wake 2 has multiple locked doors that require you to solve a riddle or use a special item to unlock as you progress through the game. One of these rooms is Blum’s Workshop, inside the Wellness Center, which contains a rifle inside it.

Here are the 8. This handy guide gives players all five of the answers to the new quiz. Though it doesn’t actually matter whether you get the answers right or wrong, as you still get the two-card reward, some players want to get them all correct. Here are all of the questions and answers for October 28, 2023.

Ubisoft’s pirate action-adventure game remains landlocked with another delay. The publisher has pushed the troubled game’s release window back to early 2024.

Ubisoft today released its financial information for the first half of the 2023-24 fiscal year. Among the financial results it sneakily revealed that it has pushed Skull & Bones, its chronically delayed pirate multiplayer adventure game, into the first months of next year. This marks yet another shifted goalpost for the troubled game/

Ubisoft's multiplayer Jolly Rog 'em up Skull and Bones is caught on the reefs once again. Recently tipped to appear in early fiscal year 2023-2024, it's now due to make landfall in the publisher's FYQ4 - sometime between January and March 2024. What's the Golden Age of Piracy equivalent for "vapourware"? I'm picturing a spectral vessel like the Flying Dutchman, crewed by glum-faced producers and with a big grimacing statue of company CEO Yves Guillemot affixed to the prow.

As part of its latest earnings report — for the first half of its fiscal year 2023-24 — Ubisoft has announced yet another delay for Skull and Bones, with the beleaguered pirate adventure now expected to arrive sometime in the first few months of 2024.

It's Ubisoft earnings day, which means we're due yet another update on the six-time-delayed pirate game Skull and Bones. And while the news is not explicitly another delay, the latest update is that we can expect Skull and Bones to launch sometime between January and March of 2024.

is a popular Indian talk show hosted by filmmaker Karan Johar, where he engages in candid conversations with Bollywood celebrities, delving into their career highlights. The eighth season of the show premiered on October 26, 2023, promising more intriguing insights into the world of Bollywood.

Neon Machine, the developer and publisher of the highly anticipated extraction shooter game Shrapnel, has raised $20 million in funding.

In August, Night Dive Studios announced it was remastering the classic ‘90s first-person shooter Star Wars: Dark Forces. We now know that this modernization of one of the most beloved Star Wars games is coming on February 28. 

Nightdive Studios' remaster of cult hit shooter Star Wars: Dark Forces has been given a release date and is launching for PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch on 28th February next year.

Are you someone who likes to catch beautiful sights out there in the sky including meteor showers or even a comet flyby? While meteor showers are frequent, comets are a rarity. If you do like such stuff, then know that 2024 will be the year for you as a massive comet named 12P/Pons-Brooks is going to make a very close approach to Earth. However, you will be stunned to know that the comet is much bigger than Mount Everest and scientists are calling it the Devil Comet as it is reported that it has the shape of “horns” on it. Know what scientists are saying about the comet.

A new novel reveals that Darth Maul may have been involved in (or at least present during) the events of . takes place during the period between ' prequel trilogy and its original trilogy, in the time after Order 66 caused the death of most Jedi throughout the galaxy. By itself, it's a pretty insular, standalone story, but the complications of the timeline mean it intersects with many other characters' storylines, even if they don't always appear on screen.

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This strategy game from Fantasy Flight Games includes the full 140-card set and everything you need to play.

A galaxy far, far away is about to collide with the iconic world of Minecraft. During the 2023 Minecraft Live on YouTube, Mojang unveiled the Star Wars Path of the Jedi DLC, set to land in the Minecraft Marketplace in November. This thrilling expansion brings the power of the Force, so many lightsabers, and the mesmerizing Star Wars universe right to your blocky worlds.

More than a week after wrapped up its 8-episode first season, Lucasfilm has dropped a brand new video for the latest Star Wars series. In the clip, Hayden Christensen recalls how thrilled he was when he got the call to become a part of the Rosario Dawson-led series.

At his spotlight panel at New York Comic Con 2023, actor Ewan McGregor couldn’t say much about Star Wars, or Moulin Rouge!, or Trainspotting, or even Velvet Goldmine. But he could deliver an impromptu class in tea-making for Americans.

It’s hard to think of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas or edgy retail chain Hot Topic without thinking of the other.

A new set of viral videos have revealed Disneyland’s latest droids, with Disney Imagineers turning their skills toward making a real-life version of the lovable BD-1. First making his appearance in the hit 2019 videogame, BD-1 was the former droid of the late Jedi Master Eno Cordova before coming into the possession of Cameron Monaghan’s Cal Kestis. In January 2022, the popular droid design made its first live-action franchise debut in episode 5.

Maybe Andor isn’t perfect after all. An eagle-eyed Star Wars fan has spotted a crew member hiding in the background of the penultimate episode of the first season of the hit Disney Plus series.

Writer/artist Peach Momoko is bringing her instantly recognizable watercolor style to the Star Wars Galaxy in November with Star Wars: Visions - Peach Momoko #1. The one-shot kicks off a series of comic book releases which carry on the Star Wars: Visions concept of giving individual creators a platform to tell a Star Wars story in their own unique style to comics.

It may seem a little early to be thinking about Christmas, but today's Prime Day Lego sale - and some copycat offers - clearly like to be organized. And honestly, looking at them with their minifigures in Christmas jumpers is too sweet. My heart can't take it. Actually, I may now have diabetes from sweetness overload.

Disney is reportedly looking to acquire Electronic Arts or a company of a similar scale as a way back into games publishing.

The idea of “spoilers” comes up a lot these days. In an era where our abundance of information, freely available and shareable, expands more and more every day, it’s increasingly difficult to avoid learning something you might not want to know. These can range from the ending of a show to a character death, or even to a big moment in a classic like Chrono Trigger.

A new Bloomberg report reveals Disney executives are looking to get further into games. Their solution? Acquire Electronic Arts. 

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic’s lead designer reckons his version of a KOTOR threequel wouldn’t be great since he’s “all Star Wars’d out.”

Every time a game comes out that includes some kind of vehicle or base-building feature, you just know that the recreations aren't too far behind. We saw shortly after launch of Starfield that someone recreated a whole bunch of spaceships from other games and movies, which included The Normandy from Mass Effect, The Millenium Falcon from Star Wars, and a Pelican from Halo. Unsurprisingly, it seems like Starfield has quite a few Halo fans in its community, as another recreation from the series has been gaining attention on social media.

Star Wars game bundle Star Wars Heritage Pack is getting a physical Switch edition just in time for the holidays.

Aspyr and Lucasfilm Games announced on Friday that they would be producing a release for the Nintendo Switch. It’s set to release later this year.

Let’s say you’re hanging out with some people who’ve known each other for a long time. Maybe longer than they’ve known you. They have all these hilarious in-jokes and constantly reference times they hung out together. Times which you were, notably, not present for. It’s all they do. They never bring you up to speed or endeavor to discuss things you might know about. What a bunch of assholes, right? Ahsoka is like one of those jerks.

The next Mob to come to Minecraft is being decided by the players. The development team has created a large vote where players can submit to select which mob they want to see in the upcoming update. There are only a handful of choices to pick from, and these are slowly being revealed by the team.

Aspyr Media announced a remake of in 2021. However, the games have since faced delays and a studio change, with Saber Interactive taking over in 2022. Now, Sony cites expired music licenses to explain the recent delisting of the game’s trailer and removal of social media posts.

Sony has announced the 'regular' new PS5 Spider-Man 2 bundle, which will launch alongside the game later this month.

After nearly four months sincehad wrapped up its production, the first trailer for Lucasfilm’s next Star Wars series has been leaked online on social media platforms like X and Reddit.

For those of us old enough to remember, Super Smash Bros first came to the Nintendo 64 back in 1999.  At the time, it was revolutionary because it combined 12 characters from 9 different Nintendo franchises for a new fighting game experience.  It featured a great commercial with different Nintendo characters frolicking in a meadow until they started beating each other up.  This ushered in a whole new franchise for Nintendo that nowadays draws on all of their IPs and even some 3rd party IPs like Street Fighter and Metal Gear Solid .