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Tomb Raider I-III Remastered, new versions of the first three entries in the popular series starring Lara Croft, have been announced today with an early 2024 release date.

Nintendo has announced Mario vs. Donkey Kong for the Nintendo Switch, a remake of the Game Boy Advance puzzle platformer coming out on 16th February 2024.

When the last Nintendo Direct arrived in June, Nintendo teased that a certain game starring Luigi would be remastered for the Nintendo Switch. Today, the newest Direct revealed Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD would be coming next summer for the console. The classic 3DS title takes Luigi to a haunted village where ghosts are running rampant, and he’ll need to suck them up via his trusty vacuum! But that’s not the only thing that was announced aside from the upgraded graphics. There will be multiplayer modes for gamers to enjoy to make the experience even more fun. But let’s start at the beginning, shall we?

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is getting the remake treatment too, as the incredible GameCube JRPG is coming back for Switch.

Nintendo arguably saved the best for last with its latest Direct, with what seems to be a remaster for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Developed by Intelligent Systems and released in 2004 for the Nintendo GameCube, the remaster is coming to Nintendo Switch in 2024. Check out the first trailer below.

Anya Forger, the beloved star of the popular anime Spy x Family, is starring in a new video game, and she’s never looked cuter. Spy x Anya: Operation Memories is a new game from Bandai Namco Entertainment where we get to play as the young telepath. It is scheduled to be released in 2024 and will be coming to Nintendo Switch.

Nintendo’s upcoming Princess Peach game has a name: Princess Peach Showtime!, revealed during Thursday’s Nintendo Direct. First teased in June, the solo adventure game is the first game starring the Mushroom Kingdom’s princess in more than 17 years. It’s coming to Nintendo Switch on March 22, 2024.

Nintendo Switch is getting the first three Tomb Raider games, remastered with all the expansions to boot.

We finally have a name, and a release date, for Princess Peach's upcoming game.

We're just days away from playing Soulslike Lies of P, and the good news is that it might just be the Bloodborne alternative we've been waiting for. 

See Peach as a swordfighter, a detective, and more.

By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.

Actor-director Kenneth Branagh is clearly having the best time with his Hercule Poirot movies. The latest, A Haunting in Venice, marks Branagh and screenwriter Michael Green’s third take on Agatha Christie’s iconic detective, after 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express and 2022’s Death on the Nile. It’s also the loosest adaptation of the three of them by far. In the new movie, Branagh breaks all the adaptation rules. He smashes genres together. He goes fully over the top, which is exactly the direction that his Christie adaptations have been rolling toward. Branagh finally breaks free, making A Haunting in Venice the best entry in the series to date.

We're thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of «Playing the Edge.» Apply to speak here and learn more about sponsorship opportunities here. At the event, we will also announce 25 top game startups as the 2024 Game Changers. Apply or nominate today!

If there’s one thing you can expect people playing Bethesda games to do, it’s hoard stuff. I’m the sort of player who picks up every resource I stumble upon, regardless of need — thank the stars ammo has no weight value. In The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, it was potions, armor, and all sorts of food. In Starfield, I’ve taken to stealing pens and other writing tools off corporate office desks and science research stations, alongside the usual suspects like food and health items.

The EA Sports FC 24 Tottenham Hotspur player ratings have been revealed and the best Spurs players could be a great addition to your Career Mode or Ultimate Team squad.

2023 is making a late surge to be the Year of Brie. Of course, The Marvels is flying to our screens in November but, before that, Brie Larson is cooking up a storm as a chemist-turned-TV chef in Lessons in Chemistry.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

Stig Asmussen, the director of the Star Wars Jedi series is departing EA and Respawn. 

The director of Star Wars Jedi Survivor and Jedi Fallen Order is leaving EA after helping to revitalize the company's games set in a galaxy far, far away. 

Warning: The following contains spoilers for Ahsoka episode 5 ! Turn back now if you're not up to date! 

EA has announced that Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Star Wars Jedi:Fallen Order’s creative director, Stig Asmussen, is leaving Respawn Entertainment.

Industry veteran Stig Asmussen is leaving Respawn Entertainment.

Stig Asmussen, game director of Respawn's Star Wars Jedi franchise, is leaving EA.

Stig Asmussen, known as the Game Director on both Star Wars Jedi games and before that for his work on the original God of War trilogy, has left Respawn Entertainment.

Stig Asmussen, the director of such critically and commercially lauded titles as EA’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is departing from the company, per Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier.

Stig Asmussen, the director behind the acclaimed Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, is leaving Respawn Entertainment and EA to «pursue other adventures».

Mortal Kombat 1's second chapter features a surprisingly lengthy tribute to Indiana Jones, with Johnny Cage donning the archaeologist's famous fedora and brown leather jacket.

We're thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of «Playing the Edge.» Apply to speak here and learn more about sponsorship opportunities here. At the event, we will also announce 25 top game startups as the 2024 Game Changers. Apply or nominate today!

The director of both Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and this year’s Jedi: Survivor is departing EA after close to a decade at developers Respawn.

This week’s episode of Disney Plus’ Ahsoka threw out a big bone to any viewers unfamiliar with Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the animated series it continues from — but unless you are familiar with the show, you might not have realized it.

Stig Asmussen, the director of both Star Wars Jedi games, is leaving developer Respawn Entertainment.

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor director Stig Asmussen is leaving Electronic Arts, Bloomberg reports.

Mortal Kombat 1 is almost upon us, which means developer NetherRealm has started getting into the nitty gritty of what fans can expect from certain modes. Invasions is one of the new features coming to Mortal Kombat 1, a brand new single-player mode that functions similarly to modes in previous MK games such as Towers of Time and The Krypt.

The galaxy far, far away has a number of exciting projects in the works, and one of them is Deadpool 3 director Shawn Levy's upcoming Star Wars movie. 

As one of the sport’s greatest ever players, everyone wants to know what Lionel Messi’s rating is in each new football game.

Sony has announced the latest lineup of games coming to their PS Plus Extra and Premium tiers in September. While not huge in terms of major recent titles, the lineup is not lacking quality – subscribers can look forward to the likes of NieR Replicant, Civilization VI, Planet Coaster, multiple Vanillaware titles (13 Sentinels, Odin Sphere, Dragon’s Crown) and no less than no less then five Star Ocean games.

There’s an old joke about 4X games that goes something like this: after you spend several hours on YouTube watching tutorials, you get to fumble your way through a playthrough with a vague idea of what you’re doing before you inevitably make some fatal mistake you don’t recognize until much, much later. Then you restart and do a little better. Star Trek: Infinite isn’t interested in re-inventing the galactic wheel - this is a 4X game’s 4X game - but it does do a good job of bringing Trek into the space that publisher Paradox Interactive has boldly charted over the years.

Star Trek does not have a long history of being funny, but it has its moments. The original series’ “The Trouble with Tribbles” saw Gene Roddenberry’s social commentary take a light-hearted swerve, and future generations were more than happy to dip back in (see: DS9’s “Trials and Tribble-ations.”) Thanks to the godly powers of Q, The Next Generation crew found a reason to dress up in Robin Hood attire for the delightful romp “Qpid.” Lower Decks was born from the obvious potential of Trek stories being able to poke fun at themselves while sprinkling in the catnip of Easter eggs.

It's been one week since Starfield officially launched, and Bethesda is already working on updates, including a bunch of quality-of-life features that the community has been begging for.

As EA Sports FC 24 is upon us, player ratings are being revealed left, right, and centre. In this article, we’ll be taking a look at the red side of North London and what the EA FC 24 Arsenal ratings are.

Martin Scorsese has spoken a little more about his idea for a movie about Jesus Christ – and he wants to be in it. 

We’ve seen plenty of rumors suggesting that a Nintendo Direct was inbound, and today, we got the official word. Nintendo will be holding one of their special presentation streams tomorrow. Just like with past Nintendo Directs, we’re just given a short notice of when to tune in. So, if you’re eager to see what exactly Nintendo might have cooking up to release soon, you will want to tune in at 7 AM PT to see the stream. 

The Ember Sword team held its latest land sale recently, and the team is reflecting on that sale, playtesting (including another round soon), and their roadmap to Early Access.

It is generally a bad sign when a TV show or film franchise that has heretofore shown a complete lack of interest in space suddenly decides to go to space. This is one of the first things they teach you in screenwriting school, right after “enter late, leave early” and just before “you can always fix it in post, it’s no big deal.” It has been a little while since I was in school, but I’m pretty sure it was Dalton Trumbo himself that said, “Going to space will change the hierarchy of power in your story’s universe, and look at how well that worked for Black Adam or F9.” Space — it’s a bad idea! Unless you are The Morning Show. Then it’s when things really start to get good.

Nintendo will broadcast a new Nintendo Direct presentation on Thursday, Sept. 14, a showcase focused mainly on Switch titles coming this winter, the company said in an announcement. September’s Nintendo Direct will run about 40 minutes and will start at 10 a.m. EDT/7 a.m. PDT, via Nintendo’s YouTube and Twitch channels.

The Exorcist: Believer director David Gordon Green has revealed Linda Blair's involvement in the upcoming new movie.

A new trailer for Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon has arrived ahead of the film's October release.

Unity executives sold thousands of shares in the weeks leading up to last night's hugely controversial announcement it will soon charge developers when one of their games is downloaded.

If you’re looking to learn every skill and make your spacefarer the strongest across the galaxies, you will definitely need to know how to XP farm in Starfield.

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Ahsoka episode 5 . Make sure you’re up to date before reading any further.

Ahsoka episode 5 features some pretty epic moments for the former Jedi as she reunited with her old Master. However, there was one brief scene in particular that could have long-lasting consequences for Ahsoka Tano.

The developer behind Sea of Stars will focus on "balance" as the theme of its third game.

AAA games like Assassin's Creed Mirage and the remake of Resident Evil 4 will soon be available to play on iPhone 15 Pro.

Earth is an inhospitable wasteland in Starfield. Sounds familiar, aye? Nuclear war ravaged our little floating rock in the Fallout series, leaving much of the planet a smoking radioactive desert. However, the two games aren't connected, but Bethesda did consider setting Starfield in the Fallout universe at one point during development.

The cameos keep coming in Ahsoka after the return of a certain someone from the former Jedi’s past. Ahsoka episode 5 was no different as it introduced a major Clone Wars character to live-action in a blink-and-you-’ll-miss-it moment. We delve into this below, but make sure you’re up to date on the Star Wars spin-off first to avoid any unnecessary spoilers.

Hayden Christensen’s Anakin Skywalker made a triumphant return in Ahsoka episode 5, but some viewers aren’t convinced we’ve seen the last of him. Before we go any further, here’s your spoiler warning that we’ll be discussing major plot points from the latest episode below.

Warning: The following contains spoilers for Ahsoka episode 5 ! Turn back now if you're not up to date! 

PAX Australia is 10 years old this year, which means it is officially old enough to solve a mystery by cycling around with its friends while uncovering the town's dark secrets. It is also old enough to put on a gaming convention with a stacked lineup of exhibitors.

SteelSeries revealed its latest special edition revamp of the Arctis Nova 7 gaming headset line, dubbed the White Collection.

Also known as Childe, Tartaglia was the first Fatui Harbinger introduced in Genshin Impact. Taking up somewhat permanent residency in Liyue, Tartaglia toes the line between friend and foe with the Traveler. For the most part, he tends to be a friend.

It seems a bit odd that I would want to spend any time in Starfield visiting Earth. Humanity is wide-eyed with dreams of discovering new planets, colonizing homesteads among the stars. Our science fiction texts are overflowing with the lofty possibilities of leaving our home world behind to seek a future elsewhere.

Star Trek Online’s latest new update, Incursion, is now live on PC. The new update finds some different Borg forces threatening Starbase One in a brand new story episode. Actor Garret Wang becomes the latest Star Trek franchise actor to reprise their role, this time as Captain Harry Kim.

We're thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of «Playing the Edge.» Apply to speak here and learn more about sponsorship opportunities here. At the event, we will also announce 25 top game startups as the 2024 Game Changers. Apply or nominate today!

While there are plenty of eyes on the upcoming Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 by Insomniac Games, and for good reason, it’s important to remember that this isn’t the only title that Insomniac has in the works. A while back, they announced they would be working on a title starring most people’s favorite mutant. But while Marvel’s Wolverine has been “in the works” for a while, we’ve had no announcements outside of that teaser trailer for so long ago. However, one of the key members of Insomniac Games has revealed that they have officially made the jump to the new title.

Apple’s next iPhone will boast some surprising gaming power. The company announced Tuesday that the iPhone 15 Pro, which is powered by Apple’s new A17 Pro chip, will bring real-time ray-traced graphics to its flagship phone. The hardware will power native mobile versions of Capcom’s Resident Evil Village and Resident Evil 4 remake, as well as Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage and Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding.

After almost a full year away from the Genshin Impact limited banner, Tartaglia makes his return alongside Zhongli. Tartaglia is a 5-Star Hydro Bow character from the elusive region of Snezhnaya. But since Snezhnaya will most likely be the last region we can explore, Tartaglia uses materials from Liyue and Mondstadt.

The first reviews for Finestkind, starring Jenna Ortega, have arrived – and they're not exactly positive.

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

The questline to unlock the new Man'ari Draenei customizations is now available on live servers. We've completed the questline to show you how to unlock this customization and other rewards, including an achievement, two toys, and transmog items.

It’s hard to believe that the Pokemon franchise is well over 25 years old and that we’ve gone from the original 150 Pokemon to now over 1000. There have been many highs and lows for the series, yet it has endured. Many would agree that it being around so long has been a boon for many things, not the least of which is The Pokemon Company and Nintendo. But being around so long also means there will be some key anniversaries to celebrate. Today is the anniversary of the Pokemon Yellow Version, a game that would set the trend for many generations to come.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has spotted evidence of potential life on a hydrogen-rich ocean planet based 120 light-years away. 

You may have heard about a little space game called Starfield, the gravitational pull from which risks swallowing all games discourse for months and possibly years to come. Perhaps that's no surprise for a game that's been in development and hyped for as long as any title that I can remember (well, ones that have shipped anyway) but it's easy to forget now the thing's in our hands that it was subject to multiple delays along the way.

There's lots of little mechanics that Starfield doesn't bother to explain. While this is sometimes neat, leading to interesting discoveries from mucking around and finding out, some of it has me tilting my head as to why there wasn't even like a note or something. Initially spotted on the Starfield Reddit by Gamesradar, user raging_pastafarian gave a helpful rundown of the game's interstellar map. 

When the treatment for a particularly nasty condition involves patients being sent into a ‘boning chamber’, you know you’re in for a good time. And the fact that this is featured in Galacticare tells you a fair bit about what this game is – an intergalactic riff on Theme Hospital and Two Point Hospital that has the same sense of pun-filled humour (just not usually quite so risqué).

With the latest Patch 10.2 Guardians of the Dream PTR build, the 10.2 campaign is now available for testing. We played through the campaign to bring all the details. This post focuses on Chapter 5 of the campaign, Eye of Ysera.

It wouldn't be Willy Wonka without the Oompa Loompas. Starring as one of the chocolatier's loyal helpers opposite Timothée Chalamet is none other than Hugh Grant, which director Paul King believes is a particularly perfect piece of casting. 

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, the follow-up to Tom Cruise's 2012 actioner, has topped Netflix's worldwide movie chart. Subscribers are clearly in the mood for some high-octane thrills, too, as its predecessor is currently coming in as the fourth most-watched title on the platform.

Loki season 2 is going to be weird, executive producer Kevin Wright has promised. 

India vs Sri Lanka ODI Live streaming: The Men in Blue registered a resounding win against Pakistan yesterday, defeating them by 228 runs. Rohit Sharma and Co. ran riot with the bat, with former skipper Virat Kohli and KL Rahul both scoring centuries. Moreover, skipper Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill also scored half-centuries, contributing to the massive win. On the other hand, Kuldeep Yadav's 5-wicket haul helped India climb to the top spot of the Asia Cup Group A, and have advanced to the Super 4. Now, check out where to catch India vs Sri Lanka live score streaming.