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Exodus, the upcoming action-adventure RPG from former BioWare veterans, is now also being worked on by a Halo and Call of Duty support studio.

Deadpool & Wolverine’s first trailer dropped at Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday with our first look at Wade Wilson’s journey to becoming an official member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But one thing about the trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine was initially confusing: Wasn’t Deadpool’s fiancée Vanessa killed in the last one? That was a big plot point. And wasn’t X-Force member Shatterstar killed, too? And, yeah, Peter also died!

As with Rocksteady's previous Arkhamverse games, there are plenty of hidden details throughout 's Metropolis. These details reference some of the many heroes and villains to inhabit the DC universe, expand upon the backstory for some characters, and even suggest plotlines for future chapters in the game's story.

The trailer for the Wicked movie is here as it debuts during the Super Bowl, and it sees Cynthia Erivo defying gravity.

Universal Pictures just revealed a first look at the upcoming trailer for Wicked, the live-action adaptation of the long-running musical and prequel to the Wizard of Oz, during the 2024 Super Bowl broadcast Sunday.

The first Deadpool & Wolverine trailer has arrived, and as Marvel diehards predicted, it’s here to shake up the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. The 2024 Super Bowl spot arrives with just enough to tease before the movie’s July 26 release: a premise, loads of tie-ins, and most importantly, multiversal chaos that could leave the MCU in a welcome state of disarray.

Deadpool has finally joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and he’s clearly taking full advantage of the licensing rights and cameos that kind of prestige affords. In the first trailer forDeadpool and Wolverine, which debuted on Sunday during the Super Bowl, Marvel’s favorite mercenary teams up with Wolverine to take on the entire multiverse.

Creating a character is one of the most significant moments of any Elden Ring playthrough. Sure, your character will probably wear a helmet that’s going to cover their faces for 90% of the game, but still, customization matters. One thing I didn’t remember about Elden Ring, however, is how disappointing its selection of hairstyles can be. Both males and females – sorry, Type A and Type B – have access to the same hair options, and they still manage to be lackluster. All that said, this hairy conundrum extends well beyond Elden Ring. For a while, hairstyles have been lacking in video games. From the rugged buzzcuts of every space marine in existence to that borderline stereotypical dreadlock fade developers are now giving to every black character, it’s time for video games to pay a visit to a stylist. Because not everyone can be as stylish as Agent 47.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has a bunch of easter eggs in Batman's Batcave that pay respect to Warner Bros. Montreal's Arkham Origins, providing more evidence that it's canon to the wider Arkham universe.

When was first announced, there was some confusion surrounding how the game was still canon to the Arkhamverse while featuring a different version of Deadshot to the one that appeared in and. While this new version could have been a successor to the mantle, accompanying promotional material confirmed that the master marksman's alter-ego was Floyd Lawton as well. Fortunately, now has been released, the game has provided an answer to this question.

In , both Princess Zelda and Queen Sonia of ancient Hyrule are revealed to possess Time magic. However, they may not be the only characters in the game to have access to this power. Various forms of magic can be seen wielded in the game, from Riju’s ability to conjure lightning to the healing magic possessed by the foreign Zora Yona. Time magic seems to be a particularly rare variety, but at the same time, it is perhaps not as unique as it may first seem.

EXODUS was one of the most interesting game reveals at The Game Awards 2023. It is the debut project of Archetype Entertainment, an Austin-based studio helmed by former BioWare legend James Ohlen (who worked on classics like the first Baldur's Gate games, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Dragon Age: Origins) and owned by Wizards of the Coast. Shortly after its foundation, the studio was joined by another ex BioWare veteran: writer Drew Karpyshyn, known mostly as the lead writer of the acclaimed first two Mass Effect games.

Things have changed a lot between our universe and the one in Helldivers 2 where Super Earth rules the galaxy. Chief among them, aside from the militaristic society you find yourself in, are all the new forms of currency. You may not enjoy making money in real life, but at least in Helldivers 2, you can have a blast running missions with your friends to fill your pockets and start unlocking new cosmetics, weapons, and Boosters.

As the first anniversary of Resident Evil 4 Remake approaches, the game's producer has addressed lingering questions regarding The Darkside Chronicles, clarifying whether or not a certain chapter in the 2009 on-rails shooter is considered canon to the current main story of Resident Evil.

Over the past 15 years, Marvel Studios has used its superhero films to build a cinematic universe. Across 23 movies in the Infinity Saga, Marvel weaved cliffhangers, crossovers, and connecting threads that culminated in a blockbuster two-part Avengers event. It all started with a post-credits tease in Iron Man that introduced Nick Fury to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and started the ball rolling for crossovers, cataclysmic conflicts, and multiversal mayhem.

A Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League player has unearthed a hidden message that looks like a strong hunt at the return of a crucial character.

Recently, we brought news that Embracer Group was laying off staff at Eidos Montreal. This brought to the fore the uncertainty of the Deus Ex franchise, and now some words of thanks have come from the voice of Adam Jensen himself.

The Walt Disney Company has announced it's acquiring a $1.5bn USD stake in Epic Games as it launches a multi-year partnership to create an «expansive and open games and entertainment universe connected to Fortnite».

Although 's story is a continuation of Rocksteady's Arkhamverse, several plot points open the door to an extended DC Multiverse. The main campaign follows A.R.G.U.S. and Task Force X as they are deployed into Metropolis in the midst of an alien invasion led by Brainiac. In this time, Brainiac has captured and brainwashed 99% of Metropolis' citizens, including the majority of the Justice League, creating plenty of additional enemies for Task Force X to overcome on their mission to stop Brainiac's plans to terraform Earth and to create a New Colu.

The Helldivers universe is one of noble soldiers, heroic deeds, and heartfelt, unflinching patriotism in the face of giant acid-spewing bug monsters.

The Walt Disney Company is investing $1.5 billion in Fortnite and Unreal Engine maker Epic Games, the two companies announced Wednesday. Together, they’ll build “an all-new games and entertainment universe that will further expand the reach of beloved Disney stories and experiences,” according to the news release. The partnership is awaiting regulatory approval, but something is expected “soon-ish,” according to an Epic Games video.

Blizzard has released a second Lunar Awakening hotfix, this time increasing the bonus XP for Lunar Shrines and Ancestors Favor sigils.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is getting a lot of bad rep because of a number of promos gone completely wrong, but the game may still prove to be a fun experience for fans of the DC universe and its most infamous band of misfits, the Suicide Squad.

The Cinematic World of Sonic the Hedgehog — yes, Paramount is calling it that — expands in April with the release of Knuckles, the live-action spinoff of Sega and Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog movies. On Thursday, we got our first look at that Paramount Plus-exclusive series, which might just make you think, “Hey, why isn’t this a movie?”

Disney announced a $1.5 billion investment in Epic Games, acquiring an equity stake in the maker of Fortnite and Unreal Engine. It's part of a wider partnership to create a new persistent universe within Fortnite based on Disney's prized franchises.

Rocksteady Studios has been forced to pull Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League offline just one hour into its Deluxe Edition's early access launch due to a bug that automatically completed players' games.

Publisher Bandai Namco has revealed some new details about the roster of the upcoming fighting game Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero alongside the release of a stunning new trailer.

The iconic heroes of the Justice League have gone bad, and now it's up to an unlikely array of villains to save the day in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

The second Mythwind dropped on my table I began creating content for it, and I don’t regret it for a single minute. While not everything is perfect in Mythwind town, the overall experience has been incredibly positive, giving me that “just one more day” feeling I always had when playing Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley.

In Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, you'll meet a young girl called Fariba who sells you hints and maps whenever you run into her across your adventure through Mount Qaf.

Pokemon Concierge was released on Netflix earlier this month, which was a delightful breath of fresh air for the series, and depicted a more calm and zen-like experience in the Pokemon universe. It was a smash hit for Netflix, and one that prompted fans of the series to start asking two questions. One, when are we getting more seasons, and two, when will Game Freak smell the roses and turn this concept into an actual video game?

Rocksteady has revealed 's first post-launch playable character, and his inclusion may not look great for Harley Quinn. It had long been confirmed that the studio would be adding free post-launch content to the game with new storylines, environments, and characters, but it wasn't clear how these would play into the game's main campaign, considering its titular premise and the finality that comes with killing the Justice League.

The best-selling game of 2023, Hogwarts Legacy, has sold over 24 million units to date. The news came from Variety, which also outlined the ambitious plan Warner Bros. Discovery has for growth in the gaming space. The company values Harry Potter (the IP behind Hogwarts Legacy), Mortal Kombat (which has sold three million units since its debut last September), DC, and Game of Thrones franchises $1 billion each for their gaming potential, and it plans to capitalize on them all.

It's official: the rights to Marvel Comics are now owned by the notoriously evil Roxxon Energy Corporation. The rights to the metafictional version of Marvel Comics that actually exists within the Marvel Universe, that is, which, much like the real world Marvel Comics, tells the tales of superheroes such as Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and of course Thor.

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In the year that Greta Gerwig and the Mattel corporation got a postmodern comedy movie about Barbie dolls nominated for Best Picture, here’s another tribute to a famous Mattel toy line that’s maybe a little less sophisticated but, in its own way, no less genuine or self-aware. Masters of the Universe: Revolution, a five-part animated special on Netflix, is an enjoyably over-the-top celebration of the kitschy 1980s action figures.

When Universal Pictures acquired the rights to Lego in 2020, the logical assumption was that another sequel to or reboot of The Lego Movie might be in the works. The Lego Movie and The Lego Batman Movie were big hits for Warner Bros. Pictures, and with unlimited brick-building possibilities, the IP was a potential goldmine if a studio could crack the code again. But the first project to come out of the deal won’t resemble anything like the animated movies of the past. It may not resemble any movie at all.

Despite being a gamer my entire life, I’m still relatively new to the fighting game genre. I put countless hours into Super Smash Bros. Melee and Soulcalibur II as a kid, but I’ve otherwise only played series like Street Fighter casually. That means that I’ve missed decades worth of storytelling from a genre that regularly cooks up the wildest soap opera dramas available in gaming.

Hey gamers! Guess what’s about to spice up your gaming life? Summoners War: Sky Arena is dropping a bombshell on January 31st with a mind-blowing collaboration – and it’s none other than The Witcher! Com2uS just teased us with a killer clip, and I’m here to spill the tea on The Witcher Collab with Summoners War. Get ready because Sky Island is turning into a Witcher wonderland!

Following the huge layoffs (over 1,900 employees) announced yesterday by Microsoft across teams at Blizzard and Xbox, it was also revealed that Blizzard's survival game Odyssey had been canceled.

Nine years after Batman: Arkham Knight, Rocksteady’s jumping back into the DC universe with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. The same universe, but totally different gameplay; Suicide Squad is an open-world co-op looter-shooter. For those on the fence about Rocksteady’s latest, or for those who want to absorb every bit of information about the world, characters, and how it all works, here’s everything we know about Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

In the electrifying build-up to the release of Grand Theft Auto 6, eager fans are scouring every frame of the GTA 6 trailer for potential clues and connections to the iconic Vice City. Given the game's setting, fans are especially curious about any references to Tommy Vercetti, the legendary character from GTA: Vice City. While Rockstar has yet to confirm anything officially, a building spotted in the trailer has ignited a new wave of speculation among the GTA community.

A Harvard College graduate trying to win a seat on a prestigious alumni council won backing from one of the school's most famous dropouts: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Sam Lessin, a venture capitalist who once worked at Zuckerberg's social media giant, began campaigning last month for the Board of Overseers — a group that counsels university leadership on plans, priorities and strategic initiatives. Lessin said Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, would join him on a Zoom call Friday to discuss his effort to get on the overseers ballot as a write-in candidate. 

A hastily deleted video posted to a Universal Studios Instagram account for employees shows Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma overseeing some sort of construction at the park, prompting a whole lot of speculation that the long-rumored Zelda expansion to Super Nintendo World is finally underway.

Blizzard Entertainment’s untitled survival game set in an original universe is no more. In the wake of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and amid sweeping layoffs across various Xbox gaming teams, the company has canceled the project, according to a report from the Verge.

Alongside the announcement of 1,900 layoffs and the departure of Blizzard President Mike Ybarra and Co-founder Allen Adham, Blizzard's unannounced survival game has been cancelled. Revealed shortly after news of the Microsoft acquisition in January of 2022, little information about the game was ever released to the public aside from vague recruitment posts, though the abandonment of unfinished projects is not unheard of, as the cancellation of the ambitious MMO Titan famously led to the development and release of Overwatch in 2016. As reported by the Verge, Microsoft Game Content and Studios President Booty says Microsoft will be “shifting some of the people working on it to one of several promising new projects Blizzard has in the early stages of development.”

The Earth of the Energon Universe is in turmoil. The Transformers have crashed and the forces of the Autobots and Decepticons have immediately started waging war on each other. Meanwhile, Conrad "Duke" Hauser is trying to find out the truth about these strange machines, and the mysterious Cobra Commander is gathering his forces while studying an alien prisoner - Megatron! And now a new faction is about to enter the fray...

Dune: Awakening, the upcoming survival MMO based on Frank Herbert's sci-fi masterpiece, has shown off its base-building systems for the first time.

New tools are being created for WoW every day, and while Warcraft Logs is still the premier tool for collecting and analyzing gameplay, there are now several websites dedicated to parsing its information in new and expressive ways, giving players more options to help improve their gameplay! Lorrgs.IO does this visually, filtering the top 50 parses of each class and specialization, showing where important cooldowns are used and how they overlap with encounter mechanics, without all the effort of manually digging through individual logs! We previously highlighted Lorrgs ability to automatically import cooldown timers, though that's far from the only way to use the tool. More analytically inclined players may appreciate going through Lorrgs manually in order to get them a better sense of where and why cooldowns are commonly used throughout an encounter, planning out in advance rather than just waiting for an imported raid warning to tell them when to use it. Mythic Tindral is a great example of this, as cooldown usage will vary considerably between classes and specializations. While the typical approach to using cooldowns is «early and often» to get as many uses as possible, many classes will delay their cooldowns for each set of Mass Entanglement, though this isn't universal as they can quite easily be overkilled if everyone tries to focus on them, resulting in a lack of boss damage. Even deciding when to use Heroism/Bloodlust can be made easier using Lorrgs to generate a quick visual overview of where other successful groups use group cooldowns. While not necessarily universal between each of the different logs, it can give players a good idea of different successful approaches. Smolderon is another example of a place where many players will purposefully delay their cooldowns to align with the Ignited Essence buff, though it make take more specific log diving to see how certain classes bait orb spawns in order to affect better alignment. Remember, Lorrgs.IO uses Warcraft Logs to pull the top 50 logs for each class/specialization of every encounter, so the same information can be found on both sites — navigating to an individual log is as easy as clicking on the player name/parse! Warriors commonly leap away from Smolderon in order to delay orb collection for their cooldowns, though this isn't something easily seen on Lorrgs.

Metallic Rouge, the latest original anime from director Motonobu Hori (Carole & Tuesday) and studio Bones, is as difficult to describe as it is impressive to behold. A “tech noir” mystery thriller that combines a futuristic cyberpunk setting with tokusatsu-inspired action, the series burns as slow as it does bright, doling out its story and universe at a deliberate pace. It’s an anime that asks its audience to take stock of every dazzling detail on display as they attempt to grasp the totality of its whole.

Nier Reincarnation, the story-driven mobile RPG set in the popular Nier universe, will have its services ended this April. While the game will continue to receive support until then, its final story campaign will serve as its last big hurrah. 

Guess what? It’s that time again – the Girls Frontline universe is buzzing with fresh updates, and I’m here to spill the tactical tea. So, grab a seat, buckle up, and dive straight into the latest happenings of the Girls Frontline Update. Ready? Let’s roll!

After teasing it last month, Backbone has officially announced today that it has collaborated with Kojima Productions to create a new, limited edition controller inspired by Death Stranding: Director's Cut.

The ISEKAI Memories X Overlord Collaboration is set to drop, with the game and the iconic anime joining forces for a limited time.

After missing its initial release window last year, publisher 505 Games announced today that Death Stranding is coming to Apple devices on January 30.

After 31 years on television, World Wrestling Entertainment Raw’s run as TV champion is coming to an end, but only so its reign on streaming can begin. WWE has signed a new deal with Netflix that will make the streaming service the exclusive home of WWE’s flagship series, Raw, in the United States. The deal was announced on Tuesday and will also move many of WWE’s other series over to Netflix, particularly outside the United States.

With the sun setting on Dragonflight and The War Within on the horizon, our Affliction Warlock Writer, Kalamazi, offers a retrospective highlighting Affliction's journey in Dragonflight and shares their hopes for the spec's next evolution with a War Within Wishlist.

For years now, pundits have been declaring that movie stardom is dead. Everyone from Jennifer Aniston to The New York Times seems to have agreed that we simply don’t make ’em like we used to.

The free-to-play mobile spinoff Nier Reincarnation, which is set in the same universe as the hugely popular Nier: Automata, is set to end after two and a half years.

Remedy Entertainment's creative director Sam Lake has teased what fans can expect from Alan Wake 2's upcoming (downloadable content) DLC in regards to its ties to Control 2.

Remember how Control's AWE expansion served as a follow-up to Alan Wake and a prelude to the recent survival horror sequel, Alan Wake 2? Remedy says it isn't looking to replicate that with Alan Wake 2's two confirmed expansions and Control 2, although they will contain hints to the sequel.

Developer Rocksteady Studios has pulled back the curtains on the free seasonal content coming to Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League after the game's launch on February 2. Season 1 will kick off in March and includes the most famous villain in the DC roster: The Joker. Not only is The Joker joining the game, but he'll be a new playable member of the Suicide Squad. 

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a live service game, there’s no escaping that, but details surrounding what you’ll actually do after you complete the main campaign have remained sketchy. Obviously, endgame content is key to keeping a live-service alive and kicking, so while we’ve got a few scattered details, players are looking for more. Thankfully, today Rocksteady detailed their “Elseworlds” approach to post launch content in a new Suicide Squad Insider video, which you can check out below.

The central mystery in True Detective: Night Country seems easy when the credits roll on episode 1. It’s not that viewers already have the answer, but it at least feels like we can see all the puzzle pieces in front of us. That is, until episode 2. The second, even better episode of Night Country deepens the season’s central mystery with clever world-building and the most disgusting and disturbing ice sculpture on television.

In the aftermath of its stellar debut at CES '24, Rabbit's pocket-sized AI gem, the Rabbit R1, is forging new frontiers through a strategic collaboration with Perplexity AI. This alliance promises to elevate the R1's capabilities, marking a significant leap in the realm of AI-driven personal assistants.

Batteries are doing such a great job replacing petroleum in car engines that it's natural to think they might do the same in the skies. Efforts to make a working airplane prototype, however, perennially come up short. Kitty Hawk, the startup backed by Google co-founder Larry Page that hoped to make an electric flying car, quietly abandoned the project after five years in 2020. Last year, two separate proposed battery planes being developed by ventures including Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc and Nasa were dropped within a month of each other.

DC: Dark Legion, the highly anticipated strategy game set in the DC universe, has kicked off its beta testing phase. Right now, the beta is exclusive to Android only, and there’s no word yet on whether progress will carry over to the official launch. Keep reading to know If your region qualifies for the beta test!

CD Projekt Red may be teasing the location for 's sequel — currently codenamed Project Orion — and potentially the year it's set in. If so, the sequel could take place in a futuristic version of a real-world location, being a departure from 's completely fictional Night City.

Saturday is here, which means it's time for a new roundup of the best deals you can find this weekend! From video games to home security solutions, there is no shortage of deals you don't want to miss out on. The best deals for Saturday, January 20, include the LG 48" A2 Series 4K OLED TV, Borderlands 3 Ultimate Edition, the ARZOPA 15.6" Portable Monitor, and more.

The philosophy behind Mewtwo’s creation was to make the world’s strongest Pokémon. Since Mewtwo is a clone of Mew, there seemed to be only one Pokémon that could match him at the time of his original creation. However, has vastly expanded its universe since Gen 1 to include more powerful Legendaries, Mythicals, and even Ultra Beasts. Some of these are even deities that can stand toe-to-toe with the lab-created powerhouse. Despite the power of Mewtwo, however, there are other Pokémon who are more powerful.

Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.

Marvel's Black, White, & Blood series brings different characters and franchises to the comic book page in a simplified black, white, and red color scheme. But February's Alien: Black, White, & Blood #1 mixes things up by adding a splash of slimy Xenomorph acid green to the equation.

OpenAI and Arizona State University forge partnership to boost AI in education; Israel invests $2.7 mn in AI to enhance traffic safety; WHO issues ethics guidelines for advanced AI models in healthcare; Amazon's AWS to invest $15 billion in Japan for cloud computing expansion- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.

In a recent investigation conducted by researchers from Leipzig University, Bauhaus-University Weimar, and the Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, Google's search experience is under scrutiny due to a surge in low-quality content and SEO spam, notably in product-related searches. The study sheds light on the ongoing battle between search engines and spam sites, revealing the challenges search engines face in keeping up with evolving SEO strategies.

When the first half of Masters of the Universe: Revelation premiered in July 2021, some fans were not pleased. He-Man, it turns out, was barely in it, while sorceress Teela took over as the series' central character. Now, in the run-up to new outing Revolution, the Netflix show's bosses have promised fans the character will feature much more in the fresh batch of episodes.

Another year, another annual 30+ hour Chapter to further expand the already mind-bogglingly expansive RPG universe of The Elder Scrolls Online, which is now steadily approaching its 10th anniversary (coming up on April 4). This special occasion calls for a long-awaited classic TES feature to finally make its way into Zenimax Online Studios’ massively multiplayer online spinoff when the newly announced Gold Road expansion becomes available later this year. And for what it’s worth, that classic feature is indeed spell crafting in the form of Gold Road’s new Scribing system, as some theorized on Reddit following an unintentional leak of Gold Road’s introductory videos on YouTube via Zenimax itself.

Life is Strange's director says he would've loved to have developed the universe further, but that Square Enix decides where the series goes from here.