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Netflix has dropped a new manga adaptation with little fanfare, and viewers are already loving it. First announced six years ago, Pluto has finally made its way to the streamer in an eight-part series that’s being hailed as perfect.

Taking place in New York, is an enormous game with a justifiably large map full to the brim with content to be explored. features a plethora of interesting, entertaining, and simply brilliant quests; although the vast majority of the game's main quests, side quests, and side adventures don't offer tangible rewards beyond EXP, tech parts, or tech points, a few questlines reward the player with some excellent prizes.

CD Projekt Red never thought about developing an expansion set after Cyberpunk 2077’s multiple endings. 

Is that a new Pokémon game on the horizon? Nope! It’s Coromon, the very clearly Pokémon-inspired game that is set to come to mobile on November 8th. Coromon isn’t a new title, having already set foot within the realm of PC and Switch. However, is now ready to expand its region into the mobile gaming universe.

Blizzcon is just around the corner, and with the recent announcement of the Blizzcon 2023 floorplan, many players have been wondering: with all that space dedicated to Diablo, what's next for Diablo 4? While we won't know for sure until Blizzcon begins, we can definitely speculate — and the community has certainly been doing that in droves. We're taking a look at some of the more reasonable community predictions as we wait for Blizzcon!

Dragon Village Grand Battle is out now on the Play Store. This game brings elements similar to the beloved Dragon City franchise and refreshes it with a more mature art style and new gameplay. Though, Dragon Village and Dragon City aren’t actually related past including the grand mythical reptilian beasts, DRAGONS!

ARK: Survival Ascended offers the perfect opportunity to get lost in Evolved’s survival world, but now in a new engine. However, does this new release include all its predecessor’s DLC maps and content?

2023 has been a very “interesting” year for Xbox. On one hand, its latest consoles, the Xbox Series X/S, haven’t been selling as much as the PS5 or the Nintendo Switch. On the other hand, their Xbox Game Pass has been doing well enough and even had certain records beaten thanks to games released by Bethesda, whom they own. But the most dominating storyline of the year was Microsoft’s battle with Sony and the FTC to try and acquire Activision Blizzard. They tried to buy the company for about $65 billion, and it took quite a long time to get the deal to go through.

The anticipation for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth grows with every week that goes by and every piece of news that gets put out for it. In the game, we’ll finally get to set foot outside of Midgar and see the world of Gaia for the most part. Square Enix has already highlighted certain cities and areas we’ll visit, including the final “fateful” location that will end the game. But there are still many mysteries surrounding the title that we won’t get answered until we play it. For example, there’s the issue with Zack Fair and his role in the remake saga.

Reverse: 1999 release time has been announced via the game’s official Twitter page! The brand-new gacha is due to launch at 12pm UTC on October 26 – not long to wait now.

The best Disney games honor the source material and are exciting to play for all ages. From kart racing, to farming, to platforming, there’s a surprising amount of variety. Here are the best Disney games you can play in 2023.

The performance director of Baldur's Gate 3 has revealed that she had a real-life enemies-to-lovers storyline with Shadowheart, and it's actually so sweet.

I vaguely remember catching the odd episode of the original Disney Gargoyles cartoon, but looking back on my youth, it doesn’t have the same nostalgia hit for me as the likes of Dungeons and Dragons or Thundercats. I don’t think I was ever really aware of the 16-bit game either, until it started popping up in lists of underrated or forgotten games of the era. It was therefore quite a surprise when this remastered version was announced earlier this year – why was this particular game was getting such a treatment? Having now played through both the new version and the original for comparison, my initial question remains unanswered.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is a high-octane adventure with a captivating storyline that’ll have you hooked to the screen for hours.

Thanks to its incredible day-one sales, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has become the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios game ever. 

Almost everyone agreed that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 would be one of the biggest launches in 2023. After all, Insomniac Games was a crew that could be trusted with various things, including adapting the Marvel property, creating a fun and robust game world to explore, and having meaningful gameplay to participate in. It also helped that they had already made two games featuring two different Spider-Men and thus proved they could handle this particular superhero setting. The question was whether they could capture the magic of the first game and build upon it for the second one. The sales results clearly indicate that they could do that and then some.

[Update] Through an official press release, Sony commented on the impressive Spider-Man 2 sales numbers, which also include copies included with PS5 hardware bundles (thanks MauroNL):

Peter Parker and Miles Morales have both built strong legacies as Spider-Man, but offers an actual answer as to which one has more potential in the role. Both characters have featured a wide variety of incarnations and storyline across comics, films, and more, but the games have taken care to build consistent story arcs with each of them. Although Peter was the focus of the first game, Miles got his chance to shine in, and the two share the spotlight together in the newest entry of the franchise.

Season 2 has added new mechanics, bosses, tuning, and more to Diablo 4, so it's understandable that many people may not have found all the new goodies that Season of Blood has introduced. One of the newest additions is a short chain of three side quests in the Fractured Peaks that not only are an easy way to build renown, but have some very interesting lore implications for the game.

Final Fantasy 14’s 7.0 update won’t hit the MMO for almost another year, arriving alongside the game’s next expansion Dawntrail in the summer of 2024. Director Naoki Yoshida already has some plans for the next two major updates after that, though - but he’d really rather you didn’t ask about them.

At the last Fanfest, one of the upcoming Dawntrail Allied Tribe races was revealed. Another has come with the London Fanfest: Moblins.

Yuri Lowenthal, the actor behind Insomniac Games' Spider-Man, has revealed that he wants to see Nolan North as Deadpool appear in a potential third game in the series.

We already spoke about Q'onzu, the Loa of Change, who we meet in Patch 10.2. Completing one of their questlines has a unique reward for Druids — an Azure Somnowl flight form!

Starting the 27 of October, the yearly Halloween themed event All Saints Wake returns until November 13. This year rewards are limited, but include a dazzling new emote and furniture item.

Paradox's space 4X strategy game Stellaris is getting a new Astral Planes expansion, in which you send ships through rifts to "completely different realms of existence, where fundamentals that were certain at home may not always be true". I've read a few sci-fi novels in my time, and have come to the conclusion that tunnelling into other dimensions is seldom a wise move, but there's no turning back at the threshold when you're nurturing a mighty galactic empire, I guess. Find a trailer below in which some poor science ship pilot gets his brain fried by a crackling window of purple impossibility.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 released today, with a storyline that developer Insomniac has said will take, on average, about 15 hours to complete if you just stick to the main story missions. If players decide to delve deeper, and complete side missions and collectables, that gameplay time could be extended to around 40 hours.

The Pokémon Company and Creatures Inc have said there may be room for more Detective Pikachu games.

We already spoke about Q'onzu, the Loa of Change, who we meet in Patch 10.2. Completing one of their questlines has a unique reward for Druids — an Azure Somnowl flight form!

Xbox has refreshed its Free Play Days docket for this weekend, and the standout title here is Diablo 4.

In case you've been living under a rock, Insomniac Games's hotly anticipated sequel has arrived.

The ending of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 leaves us with a lot of questions — and there are two ending teasers to chew on. During (and after) the credits, you’ll get major teasers to see what happens next in the story. One is for Peter Parker and pushes forward the plot of the game, while the other teases a new character entirely. Beware, because we’re going to talk about all the plot points of Spider-Man 2 here. There are going to be massive story spoilers.

Paradox Interactive's space-faring 4X strategy game Stellaris is preparing to fire the expansion cannon once more, blasting its new narrative-focused Astral Planes DLC across alternative dimensions and onto PC «later this year».

Don’t settle for just one look for your Spider-Men. In Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 you’ll earn dozens of new costumes for Peter Parker and Miles Morales. Whether by completing side-quests, leveling up, or completing your collectible hunts, you’ll earn lots of looks from the multimedia world of Spider-Man. Every movie suit is available to unlock — or you can purchase threads from some of the biggest comic storylines. There’s a huge selection and some truly weird outfits here, so if you want to learn what’s available and when you’ll be able to unlock, check out the full list of costumes below.

Black Desert’s Biggest Expansion Land of the Morning Light is now available for Android users! This much-awaitedexpansionpromises many things. Based on Korean folklore with an amazing storyline and visuals, this expansion by the famed studio, Pearl Abyss, is being hailed as the BDM’s biggest update yet. The plot is carried by an assembly of new characters. Additionally, it also offers new locations to explore that are filled with bosses to be vanquished. Another main addition includes the tale of the Woosa Awakening class.

One of the things that made the Insomniac Games titles with Peter Parker and Miles Morales so special was that they decided to not only embrace “their version” of the mythos and tell familiar yet new stories, but they embraced the past of the franchise in a way that everyone could love. For example, they had multiple villains from the comics show up to take on the Spider-Men and focused on the relationships between them for one reason or another. But the thing that many fans have been happy about is the number of spider suits that they can wear that references the other elements of the franchise, which Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will continue.

Who had ‘playable remake of Alan Wake inside Fortnite’ on their 2023 bingo card? Nobody? Well, nevermind: either way, you can now relive the events of Remedy’s battery-powered horror game before its sequel comes out later this month.

The iconic Mortal Kombat franchise is celebrating its 30th anniversary in style with the release of Mortal Kombat: Onslaught. NetherRealm Studios, the masterminds behind the renowned Mortal Kombat series, have taken the gaming world by storm yet again. This time, they invite you to plunge into a strategic team-based collection RPG adventure that will leave you craving for more brutal kombat. This article will provide you with all the exciting details you need to know about this fantastic new mobile game.

Genvid’s interactive streaming series Silent Hill: Ascension will have weekly episodes on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, the Bravia Core app for Bravia TVs, and Xperia app on select Xperia smartphones as part of a deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment.

The cosy postal game Lake will be getting its festive DLC, Season's Greetings, next month on 15th November.

One of Bethesda's senior developers, Will Shen, who served as the lead quest designer on Starfield, has joined studio Something Wicked Games, which was co-founded by former Bethesda project lead Jeff Gardiner.

Diablo IV has been out for a while now, and if you’re enjoying the game, chances are you’re waiting for the second season to drop. Fortunately, the wait is coming to an end as the upcoming season, Season of Blood, will be available for players tomorrow. This will give you a new questline among other in-game content unique for the latest content drop. Fortunately, a new trailer has also been released, giving players a look at some of the gameplay experience you can expect starting tomorrow.

Insomniac Games has been on my radar for a long, long time. From their mascot platformer days, you could consider me a fan, and when they started to shift into more serious narratives with Resistance, I was along for the ride. But it wasn’t until Marvel’s Spider-Man in 2018 that I perked up and realized what they could do. With the standalone Miles Morales game and now the full Spider-Man sequel, they’re really proving that they’re one of the biggest forces in game development right now.

Spider-Man 2 is one of the most confident sequels we’ve played in years. Not only does it address, often mock, and then resolve the issues of the first game, but it also introduces new mechanics to improve the best parts of the original.

Marvel Spider-Man 2 reviews have been published ahead of the PlayStation sequel’s release later this week.

Insomniac Games's Spider-Man 2 is almost here (releasing on 20th October), and we can't wait to carry on with the epic storyline of Peter, Miles and company.

The next instalment in D3Publisher's long-running Earth Defense Force series has been available in Japan for well over a year, but Western fans of the bug-blasting shooter can finally look forward to checking it out too. The company has at last revealed when we can expect it to head our way — Earth Defense Force 6 is launching on PS5 and PS4 in the west in Spring 2024.

In the latest PTR build, we datamined the name of a new in-game cinematic coming in Patch 10.2 that might provide some hints at the Guardians of the Dream story campaign finale and potentially the future of the Night Elves. Unfortunately, the in-game cinematic is encrypted and only the first 5 of the 7 campaign chapters are currently testable on the PTR including the 10.1.7 Shandris Feathermoon Questline and the first 4 storylines of the Defenders of the Dream achievement. Therefore, we don't have a ton of context for what the title 'New Moon' could mean, but let's speculate anyway...

Your next epic journey awaits in the new dark fantasy action-RPG, Lords of the Fallen. A spiritual successor to the original, this game takes place 1,000 years later in a world five times larger than the original, and perhaps 1,000 times more sinister. 

Sega’s plans for Sonic in 2024 seem to have leaked early.

Dead Island 2's first story expansion, called Haus, will let player explore a billionaire's secret techno death cult when it launches November 2.

Dead Island 2 is getting its first story expansion dubbed Haus. The adventure whisks players to new locations to take on a mysterious cult while surviving that pesky zombie apocalypse. 

Dead Island 2 was one of those games that most of us thought would be left in development hell. The game was first revealed during E3 2014, where we would go through a new zombie FPS, this time developed under Yager Development after Techland opted to work on Dying Light after they finished Dead Island. However, as you all know, the game swapped development studios and was consistently delayed. It wouldn’t be until earlier this year that the game finished development and was released into the marketplace. 

Alongside Dungeons & Dragons’ surge in popularity plenty of smaller publishers have also found success, including well-known brands like Paizo and Free League. Meanwhile, founder Chris Birch and the team at Modiphius Entertainment have been plugging away at multiple projects — including novel TTRPGs Cohors Cthulhuand Dreams & Machines. But the British company also has a stable of popular licensed games, and some of its best are on sale for October Prime Day — Star Trek Adventures and Dune: Adventures in the Imperium.

Players have been blessed this last decade by the tremendous resurgence of tabletop gaming. Not just board games, mind you, which have been humming along for the better part of 15 years or more. No, we’re experiencing a renaissance of tabletop role-playing as well. Lead by the pop-culture phenomenon that is 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons, the global marketplace is full to bursting with independent creators who have been inspired to drop incredible experiences seemingly every other week. None stands taller among its peers than Mörk Borg, a rules-light TTRPG from Free League Publishing. For this October’s Prime Day, it’s on sale.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 might be missing a popular feature fans are definitely going to be looking for, at launch time.

The Gotham War crossover event has turned Batman against Catwoman and most of the Bat Family, with the Dark Knight resorting to increasingly questionable tactics in his fight against crime.

Who gave the puppygirl a gun? Trickcal announces its first-ever event “Butter Meltdown” after 2 years of being launched! After one of the worst launches in gacha history, this comeback is all but deserved for this rather whimsical gacha.

What are the filler episodes and arcs that you can skip in? When it comes to anime that have ongoing manga, sometimes the anime needs to create filler episodes while waiting for the manga’s storyline to develop. There are many shows that have filler episodes or arcs, and One Piece is part of that. Although compared to other shows, One Piece doesn’t have a lot of filler episodes. Here is a guide on the One Piece filler list and which episodes you can safely miss.

Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise has come a long way in 16 years, as the video games evolved from stealth-based action adventures to the more RPG-based fare as seen in 2020’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Evolution is a crucial part of any creative process, and change is necessary, but it’s still essential to stay true to what something is at its core, which is exactly what Assassin’s Creed Mirage does. This isn’t a soft reboot, though, as it slides right into canon, centring on Basim Ibn Ishaq, a character introduced in Valhalla.

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A new rumor has come up for a new God of War game.

The Cyberpunk 2077 video game franchise stumbled out of the gate. There were several problems that the studio needed to take control of. This open-world RPG was so poorly received at launch for certain platforms that even PlayStation removed it from their digital storefront for some time. Since then, the game has turned itself around and has become more praised by fans. It took the developers quite a bit of time, but they didn’t give up on the video game installment, and they are certainly not giving up on the franchise as a whole. A new project is underway, which will see a live-action adaptation set within the universe of Cyberpunk 2077.

In an exclusive interview with GamesRadar+ ahead of the release of VHS85, director Scott Derrickson shared that the biggest inspiration behind his VHS segment Dreamkill was his past movies, "I didn't draw inspiration from any other films except for Sinister and The Black Phone." The Doctor Strange director explained that he used Super 8 footage to add a layer of evocative erieness to the piece just as he had done in Sinister, but in terms of the storyline, Derrickson was majorly influenced by his latest feature film The Black Phone.

It’s interesting how much information is coming out about Final Fantasy VII Rebirth in recent weeks, given that the title won’t launch until early next year. It’s possible that Square Enix doesn’t want you to forget about the game and thus build up the hype for many months until it’s at a “fever pitch.” Or they just think that right now is the best time to do the reveals! Either way works in the minds of gamers. The good news is that today was one of those “reveal days” because plenty of information was dropped about the title.

Fusing the management systems of Rimworld and the expansive, forested world of Valheim, Bellwright is a survival experience with a Dishonored style storyline. If that sounds right up your street, I have good news for you: Bellwright’s early access release date is finally here.

Assassin's Creed Mirage's focus on social stealth and detective work makes for a compelling dive into ninth-century Baghdad.

Take a journey with Aznana in this stunning new game by Caramel Column Inc. With an alluring style reminiscent of the sketchy-styled Don’t Starve, Aznana brings something entirely refreshing to the Play Store. 

In 2009, I parkoured through Italian Renaissance rooftops with my Cheetoh-orange-stained hands. Since then, I’ve been eagerly watching Ubisoft in the rearview mirror, hoping they could recreate that magic for 14 years. They’ve churned out ten main games and seventeen spin-offs at the moment of writing.

Assassin’s Creed is a long-running video game franchise, and we’re soon about to add a new installment to the collection. This week, we’ll soon get our hands on Assassin’s Creed Mirage. While the games all span across different periods and locations, the heart of the series remains the same. It’s a battle between the Assassin Brotherhood and the Templar Order. What helps make this game series so thrilling is the different characters, cultures, and storylines. When you finally get your hands on Assassin’s Creed Mirage, you will want to note that the game development was very collaborative, especially regarding the characters.

Just before Starfield came out, the game’s reviews were dropped, and a consistent theme was seen within them. Specifically, these game reviewers kept talking about the amount of hours they put into the game overall, not just with the main storyline but within the whole game. Some of the reviewers had put in dozens of hours, and a few had put in over a hundred to two hundred hours into Bethesda’s new title! What that showed was that no matter what kind of gamer you were, you would have quite the adventure ahead of you. As we know now, that was by design.

Mortal Kombat 1 is the latest mainline installment to the long-running fighting franchise. However, you might be keen on jumping on this game if you’re unfamiliar with past installments. That’s because Mortal Kombat 1 is a reboot, providing a great jumping point for the IP if you haven’t followed the narratives. This game should also be supported for a good while with the Invasions mode. Surprisingly, it looks like the next four Invasions seasons have been leaked online. 

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The new physical editions come with a download code for the two-part Hidden Treasure of Area Zero DLC and release on November 3 for Nintendo Switch.

The Boys spin-off Gen V might be following a completely different story to the main series as we meet a bunch of college-age Supes navigating frat parties and superpowers, but there’s plenty of nods to the main season.

Gen V introduces a brand new crop of superheroes to The Boys universe, but do you need to watch The Boys in order to understand the plot?

It’s no secret that fans are eager to see if a new installment is coming to The Last of Us. With two mainline installments, the only other confirmed production is a multiplayer-focused game. That project is currently underway at Naughty Dog. However, it’s been a while since we saw anything regarding that project. Fortunately, there are always rumors to hype up potential projects, and one of the recent rumors to spark interest in The Last of Us 3 came from a motion capture image.

Cyberpunk 2077 didn’t have the grand launch that CD Projekt Red had hoped for. It was a rough game at its release, with some platforms being unplayable. That resulted in a massive back peddle from CD Projekt Red. It was all hands on deck when the studio worked through the countless bugs and technical issues that plagued the game. Fortunately, the game had turned itself around, leaving some fans eager to dive into its expansion. However, if you were hopeful that more big updates would be coming to the game at this point, you would be disappointed. 

Cyberpunk 2077's first (and last) expansion is out now on PS5. Phantom Liberty adds a whole new storyline and district to CD Projekt Red's open world RPG, and the initial reception has been incredibly positive. Of course, it helps that the base game has been significantly improved with Update 2.0 — which dropped just five days ago at the time of writing.