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It is a 2D pixel art horror where you play as a "forsaken nun" who "walks the long road to absolution."The world you find yourself in in the game's demo is overbearing, crushing. Read more
There has never been a time where the presence of a big Hollywood celeb making an appearance in a video game has drawn me in.And yet here we are with Matthew McConaughey, a man who is happily lending his voice to some AI software, in Exodus, a game that's basically just another Mass Effect from some folks who actually made Mass Effect.Said folks would like you to know that McConaughey's performance is all him, thanks very much.
It's funny to think that RuneScape: Dragonwilds, one of those cosy-ish, survival crafty type of games doesn't have farming just yet, but I suppose that's understandable given it is an early access game.Doesn't matter much either, as farming will be coming to the game next week as part of its Fellhollow update, which just got another look-in through a new gameplay trailer that also shows off all sorts of undead bashing you'll be doing. Read more
Satire is a genre that you find often enough in mediums like film and television, but there is an argument to be made that it doesn't happen as often in games, and that maybe, this is due for a reckoning.This is the argument that Davide Soliani (Mario + Rabbids) and Christian Cantamessa (Red Dead Redemption) are making about the game they're co-directing, Bradley the Badger, a comedic, half-throwback, half-fresh-take platformer revealed at The Geoff Keighley Night this week. Read more
We're looking to crown a Pure Xbox Game of the Year for 2025, and in order to do that, we're going to need you to vote for the best Xbox games of the past 12 months — only the top ten will make the final cut!Last year's winner ended up being Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, closely followed by Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2.Read the full article on purexbox.com
An early look at next month.As we always do around this time of the month, we're taking an early look today at what's ahead for January 2026's Xbox Game Pass selection, with two titles having been confirmed for the service next month already.As the above heading suggests, we have one other title also confirmed ahead of Microsoft revealing more Game Pass additions in the new year.
Who, and what, is Bob Gray, Pennywise's better half? IT: Welcome to Derry producers Andy and Barbara Muschietti explain it all.
Including two former PS5 console exclusives.Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for December 15-19!The releases are slightly slowing down as we head into the Christmas period, but we've still got loads of interesting launches over the next few days including the former PS5 console exclusives Fort Solis and Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic!
Starting to tackle the backlog?Welcome to our latest 'What Are You Playing' discussion! With another weekend upon us, we're starting to think about what games we might play over the next few days - and yes, those Christmas backlog plans are also creeping up!Here's what we're playing this weekend:Read the full article on purexbox.com
In a year where Hades II dominated the roguelite headlines, Evil Empire's The Rogue Prince of Persia slipped by largely unnoticed.This is the second time Supergiant's game overshadowed The Rogue Prince, with both titles entering early access at similar times last year.In fact, the story you may best remember of Evil Empire's game was the frothing criticism of the Prince's art style – a unique blend influenced by Arabic miniatures, Mœbius comics, and the purple-skinned sprites from the 1990 PC CGA port of the first Prince of Persia game.
We're heading into our last full week before Christmas and I can almost hear the hellish jangle of Saint Nick's sled bells in the night air.Not when there are weekends to be had and games to be played.This is what the team will be playing this weekend.
No prior RC chopper experience required.
Gifts ranging from $20 to $500, depending on how much you like the person.
Over the past few days, we've seen quite a few issues with Red Dead Redemption and allowing Xbox 360 owners of the game to upgrade to the new Xbox Series X|S version, but that seems to have been mostly resolved at this point.Unfortunately, a similar issue has cropped up for the new re-releases of Yakuza 0: Director's Cut, Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza Kiwami 2!All three of these games were meant to receive special upgrade discounts for owners of the Xbox One versions, but some players haven't been getting access to them as intended.
Leaving his current position after 10 years.It's being reported today that Xbox is undergoing some leadership changes — with Microsoft Gaming Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Tim Stuart moving over to Bethesda's parent company, ZeniMax Media, as a Chief Operating Officer.In Stuart's place will be Xavier Pokorzynsk, who's currently the corporate vice president of Microsoft Gaming and will be taking on the Chief Financial Officer role instead.
We build LEGO Ideas: The Goonies, a near-perfect set. It's big, it's fun to assemble, and it contains minifigures of the entire main cast and accounts of all the major set pieces from the film.
These are the best dedicated gaming earbuds of 2025.
After a surge of popularity across streaming and social platforms, Canadian streaming service Crave and HBO Max announced the renewal of Heated Rivalry, the blockbuster hockey romance drama for a second season.
From a price to performance standpoint, it's obvious which deal to choose.
New to Expedition 33? Get a rundown of what to expect in this article.
The upcoming FPS — which is out on Xbox next month — fell victim to strange TGA scheduling;where it was the final reveal in the hopes of being the 2025 show's big surprise.First off, if you look behind the somewhat derivative art style in the trailer up above, Highguard's gameplay looks really slick.
Still the best standalone VR gaming headset.
Nobody Wants This fans, Kristen Bell is about to do you one better than season 2. Netflix is adding Bell’s best-known role to their platform very soon — none other than Veronica Mars. However, there’s an interesting caveat to the whole situation.
"Experience the brutal fusion of galactic strategy and visceral real-time battles".Last night at The Game Awards, we saw the reveal of Total War: Warhammer 40,000 — and even though it didn't seem to have any confirmed platforms at the time, it's now been confirmed to be coming to Xbox Series X and Series S.This will mark the franchise's debut on Xbox, 25 years since it first began back in 2000 with Shogun: Total War.
If you, like me, still have visions of last night's grotesque trailer for a new Divinity game from Larian Studios burned into your head, then you'll be delighted to know there's already a whirl of fan theories as to what it all meant. Specifically, some fans think they've worked out who the man burned alive inside the wicker man is, or at least, who he's supposed to represent.
With Amazon and Crystal Dynamics announcing two Tomb Raider titles in one fell swoop this week, 2026's Legacy of Atlantis is getting most of the attention right now - but we want to focus on Catalyst for a minute here, which "delivers the largest Tomb Raider world yet" in 2027.Yep, while we're getting that Tomb Raider Remake next year, Crystal Dynamics is going back to the drawing board once again with Catalyst in 2027, and it sounds like an ambitious entry in the legendary action-adventure series.Read the full article on purexbox.com
Xbox's new Fallout Pip-Boy Edition controller is now available to preorder from Amazon and the Microsoft Store. It's currently listed for $82.97 at each, with a release date of December 16 at Microsoft and January 7, 2026, at Amazon.
"This is a game made by adults for adults," is a line that features in a recent interview with Ryan Hill, creative strategist at CI Games, talking of Lords of the Fallen 2 in tandem with its Geoff's Night of Pretending to Like Video Games gameplay reveal trailer.The reason this line comes up is because the upcoming sequel is a violent one, one that hopes to be bloodier and gorier than its predecessor, to the point that you can, if you like, chop off any limb you can see in the game. Read more
Last night saw the Peacock theatre in LA fill up with prominent game industry folk all eager to be blasted with trailers for four hours straight.We weren't in the room for The Game Awards 2025, but half of the team stayed up to be to be assaulted with announcements in real-time via livestream, while the other half caught up on the barrage this morning.Having now had some sleep, we decided to collect our thoughts on Geoff-fest 2025 and not at all use it as a way to point out who is looking the most tired.
If you go back a few years to The Game Awards 2021, it felt like Hazelight Studios' It Takes Two was the "chosen one" of that event in many ways, racking up Game of the Year alongside a bunch of other awards.It was a deserved win for a fantastic co-op game that built upon the success of A Way Out a few years prior, and it wasn't until early 2025 that we'd see a follow-up in the form of Split Fiction.However, considering how incredible this year has been for new releases, Split Fiction ended up getting essentially ignored at The Game Awards.
Frankenstein director Guillermo del Toro has discussed his now-cancelled plans for the DC universe, which included two years of work on a Justice League Dark screenplay, and the suggestion he could have helmed Superman movie Man of Steel.
It’s hard to believe at this point but it’s true: Euphoria is coming back for Season 3, and HBO Max has released the first footage from the upcoming return.
Including a Five Nights at Freddy's title!We've got a couple of PS5 console exclusives jumping over to Xbox next week!The game arrives for Xbox on December 19th following its PS5 release all the way back in August of 2023.
Available to claim ahead of release.While Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis didn't get a proper release date at The Game Awards aside from a broad 2026 window, the game does seem pretty far along - and publisher Amazon Games is offering the chance for fans to grab a little Tomb Raider Remake bonus for linking accounts ahead of launch.As shared by both the Xbox and PlayStation blog posts on this whole Tomb Raider reveal, if you link your Xbox / PSN account to an Amazon Games ID, you can claim the 'Exclusive Mediterranean Wetsuit Outfit' in Legacy of Atlantis on release next year.
What was previously referred to as Control 2 now has its own name, and its own protagonist, Dylan Faden, the tongues-speaking brother of the first game's heroine Jesse.Gone is her shapeshifting gun too, replaced with a shapeshifting bit of metal instead.Interesting enough a setup, but I am bothered by one thing: Remedy say you don't need to play the first game to play this one.
Gainax, the animation studio behind influential anime including Neon Genesis Evangelion, FLCL, and Gurren Lagann, officially shut down on December 10, 2025. This was revealed by Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno in a statement published on the website of his company Studio Khara, in which the anime director shared his personal thoughts on what he described as a “truly disappointing end” to Gainax’s “nearly 42 years’ of history.”
Then maybe treat yourself to a bath if you can.Capcom formally confirmed last night that, as leaked, it contains Leon Kennedy.Some of their devs have now offered a bit more detail as to how it'll feel to play as both him and co-lead Grace Ashcroft.
Announced yesterday by Xbox!Yesterday, in and amongst all of The Game Awards madness, Microsoft's Matt Booty came out and quietly announced Xbox Developer Direct 2026 - featuring Fable and Forza Horizon 6 developer Playground Games.We certainly expected this event to go ahead next month, but the way it was revealed yesterday was definitely a bit of a surprise.
Our first glimpse at footage from DC Studios series Lanterns has arrived, featuring Friday Night Lights' Kyle Chandler and Krypton's Aaron Pierre as members of the intergalactic Green Lantern Corps.
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it was ditching a planned price increase for The Outer Worlds 2 and other "full priced holiday releases", presumably in response to poor sales and negative feedback.Now, Xbox Game Studios boss Matt Booty has been discussing this in an interview with Variety, explaining that Xbox wants to achieve "player satisfaction and deliver "player value" whilst also "needing to run the healthy business", and therefore it's a balancing act that they're going to continue working on.Read the full article on purexbox.com
Doom and Quake studio id Software are now home to a "wall-to-wall" union according to the Communications Workers of America (CWA).The organisation have announced that a group of 165 id workers have just voted to unionise, adding to the ranks of the 300 ZeniMax quality assurance staff who unionised back in 2023.Read more
165 workers at id Software, the studio behind the Doom and Quake franchises, have elected to unionize with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) in yet another wall-to-wall developer union within Microsoft.
Update: Now live on the main version of the app.For ages now, we've been waiting on Xbox to add a version of the Xbox / Microsoft Store to the Android and iOS apps, as until now it's been impossible to actually buy anything on there - you've only been able to remote install games.However, the Xbox Store has officially begin rolling out on the Xbox mobile beta app as of today, and it seems to be pretty much the same thing we get on console, containing the same kinds of categories and sorting features.
Amazon has pulled its AI-powered Fallout Season 1 recap after fans noticed it made significant errors ahead of the launch of Season 2.
The Wizard World of Harry Potter is headed to Fortnite, as Epic Games offers Hogwarts Legacy for free via its PC Store.
"We have officially been robbed!".For those of you who tuned in last night, The Game Awards quickly turned into the Expedition 33-fest as Clair Obscur took home a boatload of awards - and one team that doesn't seem super happy about not getting anything is Warhorse Studios; the dev behind the excellent Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.While the team ultimately congratulated Sandfall Interactive on its TGA sweep with a friendly 'good game, well played', Warhorse seems a little aggrieved by the fact that its big 2025 RPG took home zero awards at the show.
Microsoft exec responds to Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's disappointing launch.
I have to say, it does tickle me that pretty much anyone involved with Left 4 Dead just seem to still want to make Left 4 Dead.The Anacrusis and Back 4 Blood both were made by folks who worked on the original co-op shooter, and now the original lead designer of it Mike Booth is back with yet another incarnation, 4:Loop, revealed at Geoff's Ads and Statues Evening.As part of that reveal, Booth took part in a little interview over on the PlayStation Blog where he touched on the game's roguelike mechanics, and how excited he is for people to break them.
Following official confirmation that Leon S. Kennedy will co-star in Resident Evil: Requiem, the game's developers have confirmed how much we'll be playing as the floppy-hair favorite — and it's good news for his fans.
Terminator 2D: No Fate has finally crash-landed on Xbox after several shipping-related delays, and it sounds as though the team has delivered a solid 2D Terminator game going off the early reviews here.Today is launch day for the new Xbox title, so at the moment, we're not seeing tons of reviews for No Fate just yet.Read the full article on purexbox.com
Fighting game fans react after the cast of the Street Fighter movie joke about Mortal Kombat 2 at The Game Awards 2025.
Deltarune's third and fourth chapters dropping simultaneously this year was my Silksong.Toby Fox only kept me hanging four years for the latest slice of his episodic Undertale successor.Life has passed since I hung out with Deltarune’s adorably awkward protagonist, Kris, their chalk-devouring bestie, Susie, and the duo’s goat mage guide, Ralsie.
Microsoft has confirmed plans for a significant Xbox Developer Direct showcase in January 2026 after a relatively quiet The Game Awards.
When Deus Ex Remastered was revealed back in September, it quickly became apparent how Simply Not Great this thing looked.It even tried to convince us that you'd need an RTX 2080 to run it at the recommended settings!And here we are, almost three months later, with word that the game has been delayed.
"Player count has halved in 12 months".GamesIndustry.biz has shared some new data from Alinea Analytics and Video Game Insights to show that Black Ops 7 is hugely underperforming Black Ops 6 right now, especially on Steam.According to data from Alinea Analytics, "Black Ops 7 sold 401,000 copies on Steam 26 days after launch, compared to Black Ops 6 selling 2.3 million units during the same period last year".
All right, I've definitely got a weakness for Star Wars games which shift the camera away from all the glowy sword fights and space politics, instead zooming in on galactic ne'er-do-wells getting up to mischief.Star Wars Outlaws stuck that chord for me, and Star Wars: Galactic Racer looks like it'll combine similar appeal with the trump card of chaotic off-road racing.
Or, I guess it's around 40,000 years away, but that's still more or less here for the Total War series, which'll be tackling a futuristic setting for the first time in last night's reveal of a Warhammer 40,000 spin-off reveal.It's got most of what you'd expect, like those mean ole Space Marines, and big, dramatic, explosive battles with so much going on on screen you'll get a hernia.But there were a few details shared in a post-reveal blog post that go into some small bits that weren't a part of the big reveal.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s promised free expansion is available to download right now, developers Sandfall Interactive have announced at this evening’s Trial by Keighley, aka the Game Awards. The update includes new enemies and bosses, a new dungeon, enemies, new language support and costumes.The extra environment appears to be toy-themed and accessible later on in the game.
To finish off the night after winning eight awards at The Game Awards 2025, the team behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is rolling out a special "thank you" update containing a bunch of new features and improvements for the game.Some highlights include a new playable environment featuring new enemy encounters and surprises, new boss battles for late-game players, new Luminas and Weapons, a Photo Mode, optimisation for the ROG Xbox Ally and much more!Read the full article on purexbox.com
The Game Awards is done and dusted for another year, and as anticipated by most people, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was the big winner in terms of the "awards" part of the show - taking home "Game of the Year" in the process.Expedition 33 received eight awards in all, including "Best Game Direction" and "Best Narrative".Xbox took home two awards for its first-party titles in DOOM: The Dark Ages and South of Midnight, which won the "Innovation and Accessibility" and "Games for Impact" awards respectively.
We just saw more of the Super Mario Galaxy Movie at The Game Awards, albeit not much more. We were just treated to a whopping 30 seconds of new footage, featuring Luigi smacking Bowser Jr. in the face. Cool!
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 stormed The Game Awards 2025, winning all but one category it was nominated in, including the main prize: Game of the Year.
Weren't able to catch The Game Awards 2025 showcase earlier today?You can always go back and watch the on-demand version for yourself, which you'll find elsewhere on Pure Xbox.Read the full article on purexbox.com
And it's out next month!!We've got a big surprise coming out of TGA today as new studio Wildlight Entertainment announced Highguard; a new free-to-play shooter coming to Xbox next month.This new Xbox Series X|S shooter comes out on January 26th, 2026 - yes, Highguard is out in less than two months!
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 just swept The Game Awards, winning a whopping 11 out of 12 of its nominations, including Game of the Year. In celebration, Sandfall Interactive took the stage to announce that its previously-announced DLC for the game is out...now. Right now!
The dust is now beginning to settle on The Game Awards 2025 showcase!If you haven't had a chance to watch it yet, you can catch the full thing over at our live coverage page, and we've also provided a separate recap of everything that happened as part of the show.Read the full article on purexbox.com
He's back!It was announced today as part of The Game Awards 2025 that Mega Man will be returning in 2027 with Mega Man Dual Override, currently set to launch across a wide array of platforms including Xbox One, Series X and Series S.A small teaser trailer was also shared as part of the event, which you can watch up above.
As revealed at The Game Awards 2025, Capcom is bringing the Blue Bomber back with a new video game called Mega Man: Dual Override.
Creative Assembly are making Total War: Warhammer 40,000, a new era for Twar that looks to take the Total War strategy map/battle map format and apply it to whole solar systems.They got David Harbour to announce the game at the Geoffies just now.Catch a cinematic intro and just a tiny bit of footage in the announcement trailer, below.
Two and a half years after its reveal at a PlayStation showcase, Phantom Blade Zero now has a release date. It's September 9, 2026.
Being created by devs from Burnout and Need for Speed.In addition to the Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic announcement that kicked off The Game Awards 2025, it was later revealed that Star Wars Galactic Racer is coming to Xbox Series X and S in 2026, and we reckon it's gonna be great!This is the third podracing-style game after the original Star Wars Episode 1: Racer and the PS2's Star Wars Racer Revenge, with Galactic Racer being developed by the team at Fuse Games - a studio that's made up of developers that have worked on the likes of Burnout and Need for Speed.
Bandai Namco sped into The Game Awards 2025 to finally reveal Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve as the next entry in the long-running flight simulator series.
A brand new Star Wars racing game has been announced, from the makers of Burnout and Need for Speed.
Creative Assembly has finally confirmed one of the worst-kept secrets in video games: Total War: Warhammer 40,000.
The developer of well-received top-down action game The Ascent has revealed its next game and a shift in perspective to first-person.
The "future of Tomb Raider" has been dutifully revealed at this year's Geoff Awards, and it turns out the future is half-future, half-past.Amazon Game Studios and Crystal Dynamics have announced a pair of Tomb Raider games - Tomb Raider: Catalyst, the next major new instalment in Lara Croft's adventures, and the previously leaked Tomb Raider: Legacy Of Atlantis, "a fully reimagined version" of Core Design's original Tomb Raider from 1996.Read more
IGN interviews Neon Giant on No Law, fresh from The Game Awards.
"Fight or sneak, shape the city with your choices".Today's Game Awards showcase gave us our first look at No Law, an open world shooter RPG coming to Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S at some point in the future (no release date yet).Developed by Swedish team Neon Giant, the game sounds pretty ambitious as a "AAA" title that's "built entirely around player agency and freedom".
As promised, Housemarque brought a new trailer for its Returnal follow-up, Saros, to The Game Awards today, and it included a release date of April 30, 2026.
Today's Gamescom Opening Night Live event has brought us a first look at Lords of the Fallen 2, which will be coming to Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S at some point in 2026.You can check out the debut trailer for the game above.You can actually wishlist it on Xbox right now if you want to as well!
Marvel Rivals is halfway through Season 5, but that isn’t stopping NetEase Games from revealing Deadpool as the first playable hero for Season 6 at The Game Awards 2025.
Lords of the Fallen II publisher CI Games has shown gameplay footage of its Soulslike sequel during The Game Awards 2025, featuring new character Omeuras and enemy limbs flying everywhere.
Blizzard has fully unveiled Diablo 4 expansion Lord of Hatred, confirming that it includes not one but two new classes — and the Paladin is playable now if you pre-purchase.
Endnight Games showed up for The Game Awards 2025 with what may be one of the most unexpected announcements of the night: Forest 3 is coming.
Amnesia developers Frictional have finally done the decent thing and confirmed their much-teased follow-up to Soma, the much-beloved/dreaded underwater sci-fi horror game from 2015.Revealed just now at the Geoffrey Awards, the new game is called Ontos, which appears to be the Greek word for "Being".It's set in some kind of creepy lunar mad science resort called Samsara, and it honestly reminds me more of Bioshock at a glance than Soma, even though it's set in outer space.
Remake and a new entry confirmed!Crystal Dynamics has brought its a-game to The Game Awards tonight by revealing two new Tomb Raider titles - and one is coming to Xbox as early as next year!That 2026 title is known as Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, and it's a full-on remake of the original Tomb Raider title from 1996.
Invincible VS has a character never before seen in Robert Kirkman’s superhero universe: Ella Mental. We interviewed Kirkman himself and the developers to find out how she fits into the overall universe.
Update: We've got a release date!A new fighting game was announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2025 today!It's called Invincible VS, and it's a "brutal, bloody, and frenetic 3v3 tag fighter" that we'll be playing on our Xbox consoles in 2026.
The next-gen, Unreal Engine 5-built Tomb Raider that developer Crystal Dynamics announced three years ago now has an official name and release window. Lara Croft’s new adventure for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S is titled Tomb Raider: Catalyst, and it will be released in 2027 and published by Amazon Game Studios.
"With Xbox Game Pass, play your way...".Although it's been long assumed that Gears of War: E-Day was set to launch next year, the game hadn't gotten an official release window from Xbox - until now.Yep, a new Game Pass ad that premiered during The Game Awards has confirmed that Gears: E-Day is indeed coming out in 2026.
LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight emerged from the shadows this evening at The Game Awards with a new trailer, revealing the anticipated adventure's release date.
TT Games is back with a brand-new LEGO game coming to Xbox Series X|S next year - as 'Legacy of the Dark Night' evidently focuses on Batman's The Dark Knight trilogy this time around.The above trailer showcases the game in action of course, with the Batmobile taking centre stage alongside some of The Dark Knight trilogy's most iconic villains.Here's a bit more about what to expect from LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight:Read the full article on purexbox.com
In another victory for trademark paperwork diggers, weird fiction action-RPG sequel Control 2 is in fact Control Resonsant, as confirmed by an announcement and trailer at The Game Awards 2025.It’s out in 2026 and swaps Control’s telekinesis-aided shooting for melee thwacking.Said thwacking takes place across a Manhattan that’s suffering from more than a dash of catastrophic reality breakdown, as teased - this time intentionally by developers Remedy - in Alan Wake 2 DLC The Lake House.
We just got our first look at the debut game from Nagoshi Studio, the studio formed by Toshihiro Nagoshi under NetEase after he departed Ryu Ga Gotoku in 2021. It's called Gang of Dragon, and it sure looks an awful lot like Yakuza!
"Explore a warped Manhattan on the brink...".Following a recent trademark for this exact name, Control Resonant is indeed real and is the next big game coming from Remedy Entertainment - due for PC and consoles in 2026.Remedy says that you can wishlist this one right away, as it works to bring the next instalment in the Control series to players next year.
Capcom have confirmed the return of Leon Kennedy in a new trailer for Resident Evil Requiem at this year's Geoff Awards, ahead of the horror game's release on February 27th, 2026.The trailer in question gives us a quick look at his capabilities compared to Requiem's new protagonist Grace.Read more
Bruce Straley, game director of The Last of Us and Uncharted 4, has announced a new project, Coven of the Chicken Foot.
The Game Awards 2025 had a big Hollywood surprise: the debut trailer for the Street Fighter movie.
Remedy Entertainment has announced Control: Resonant, the follow-up to IGN’s 2019 Game of the Year, Control at the 2025 Game Awards. It’s due out in 2026 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X and S, and it aims to be anything but a straightforward sequel.
Following a leak earlier this week, Capcom has revealed that Leon Kennedy is indeed starring in Resident Evil Requiem - as both them and previously-announced lead Grace Ashcroft swap protagonist duties in the upcoming RE title.Leon's campaign is set to be much more action-packed than Grace's equivalent - and you can get an idea of what to expect from that via the new trailer up above.Here's how Capcom sets up Resident Evil Requiem now that Leon has been confirmed and revealed:Read the full article on purexbox.com
Check out the new Game Awards trailer.Today's Game Awards showcase gave us a lengthy look at the new sci-fi action-adventure RPG Exodus that's being developed by Archetype Entertainment (Wizards of the Coast), and we're impressed by what we're seeing here!It's no surprise we're getting Mass Effect vibes considering the dev studio is made up of Mass Effect, Baldur’s Gate, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic veterans, so Exodus is definitely a game we'll be keeping an eye on.
Anyway, the folks behind Baldur's Gate 3 have revealed a new RPG called...No, not Divinity: Original Sin 3.Beware that it contains footage of some drunk Orcs and one naked human guy in a crown getting roasted alive.
Review: Carol and Manousos hit some real lows in Pluribus Episode 7, “The Gap,” which is a beautifully shot and acted episode.
After months of speculation and a revealing leak earlier this week, Capcom has finally, officially confirmed what we all knew: Leon S. Kennedy is in Resident Evil Requiem, and he's here to kick butt.
The Dungeons & Dragons franchise has been steadily making more attempts to expand into video games, and we're seeing that next effort with Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons, a new open-world single-player action-RPG that's all about wielding dark magic to battle foes.
Even after two years since its reveal at The Game Awards 2023, Archetype Entertainment's sci-fi action-RPG Exodus is still something of a mystery.Set in an original sci-fi universe from Wizards of the Coast – of Dungeons & Dragons fame – Exodus focuses on the accelerated evolution of human and alien civilizations, with players deciding the fate of different factions and humanity within the warring galaxy.Also, Matthew McConaughey will play a pivotal character who will guide players on that journey.
Order of the Sinking Star is an upcoming puzzle game that features 1,000 puzzles that can take up to 500 hours to complete, and we saw it in a live demo.
Left 4 Dead creator Mike Booth's passion for that special number between three and five continues with 4:Loop, a new co-op sci-fi shooter he's working on in collaboration with Bad Robot Games, the studio founded by nu-Star Trek and nu-Star Wars director JJ Abrams.PlayStation are publishing this one. Read more
Update: We have a launch date!It's been a while since we last heard anything about John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, but it's back today as part of Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025, and we know it's definitely coming to Xbox in early 2026.It's described as an "infectious co-op shooter" powered by the same engine behind the likes of Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 and World War Z: Aftermath, so we've got high hopes for this one when it launches next year!
Who needs Baldur's Gate 3 anyway?The extremely talented folks over at Larian Studios have revealed their next project today in the form of Divinity, which is described as being "an RPG with greater breadth & depth than ever before".Those are extremely ambitious words considering Larian previously worked on Baldur's Gate 3 - not only one of the biggest RPGs ever made, but also one of the best video games we've ever seen!
J.J. Abrams and Left 4 Dead creator Mike Booth took to The Game Awards 2025 to announce that their mysterious new co-op video game is a sci-fi third-person shooter called 4:Loop.
An old witch and the strange feathered creature which keeps her company have an oath to keep in Coven of the Chicken Foot, the fantasy puzzle-platformer Wildflower Interactive have just revealed at the Geoff Awards.Wildflower are the new studio formed by ex-The Last of Us game director Bruce Straley, and they say their debut game's calling card is the relationship between its protagonist, Gertie, and her mate.Read more
It’s Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic.It’s a single player action RPG created by a team led by Casey Hudson - the project director for Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic, and a veteran of the Mass Effect series.They’re calling it a “spiritual successor” to KOTOR.
After some unusual teases and a trademark inadvertently showing Larian Studios' hand, the Baldur's Gate 3 developer's next game has been officially revealed at The Game Awards with one heck of a disturbing trailer. It's Divinity. Just Divinity.
Led by the game director of the OG Star Wars: KOTOR.The Game Awards 2025 was kicked off today with the reveal of Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, developed by the little-known Arcanaut Studios and currently in development for "PC and consoles".It's described as a spiritual successor to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and it's being led by the game designer on that title (in addition to the Mass Effect trilogy), Casey Hudson.
The Game Awards 2025 kicked off with a huge announcement: Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic.
Xbox Game Studios' debut on Nintendo!Xbox's next multiplatform port has been announced today; as Compulsion Games' deep-south adventure South of Midnight is being crafted for PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2.Going off the art posted below, South of Midnight heads to these two extra console platforms in Spring 2026.
Playground Games will definitely be part of Dev Direct.In the midst of everything happening at The Game Awards this evening, Variety has suddenly come out with a Matt Booty interview that reveals the Xbox Developer Direct showcase will officially be returning in January of 2026.Booty says there's way too much to fit into one show, but confirms Playground Games (the developer behind Fable and Forza Horizon) will be involved in the event.
As part of The Game Awards pre-show today, Capcom has finally revealed an official release date for its sci-fi action game Pragmata!The upcoming title will launch for Xbox Series X|S on April 24th, 2026 - and there's a free demo on the way as well.That free demo is live today on Steam, but unfortunately, console players (including those on Xbox) will have to wait a little longer for that demo.
Capcom's upcoming space adventure Pragmata was back at The Game Awards today with some pretty significant news after years of delays. It has a release date at last: April 24, 2026.
Davide Soliani, the lead creator behind Mario + Rabbids games, has revealed Bradley the Badger — his first new project since leaving Ubisoft and forming a new studio.
Earlier tonight, The Game Awards 2025 briefly ceased funnelling trophies into Sandfall Interactive’s pockets on a heavily sponsored conveyor belt to reveal Decrepit: a horror-flavoured, dungeon-dwelling soulslike that’s the debut project of solo dev outfit Jämmerdal Games.It’s being published by Three Friends, they of Romestead and ex-Mojang/Ghost Ship Games note, and aims to be out in 2026.Read more
The Game Awards don't start for another half hour, but video game announcements are still finding a way to sneak in anyway. Compulsion Games just revealed that South of Midnight is coming to PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2 in spring of 2026.
Best deal I've seen despite the recent price hike on all SteelSeries headsets.
Well here's a nice surprise from the September 2025 State of Play event!Aspyr has announced that it's remastering the original Deus Ex from 2000 in the form of Deus Ex Remastered, and it's bringing a bunch of visual improvements including new lighting, dynamic shadows, upscaled textures and more.Read the full article on purexbox.com
The final major gaming event of the year.It's time for The Game Awards 2025, which marks the final major gaming showcase of the year."Celebrate the best and see what's next in video games at The Game Awards 2025, live from Peacock Theater in Los Angeles."
The Zone 4: Apophis Content Update for Deadzone: Rogue is launching on December 17
All the nominees and a running list of winners from the gaming Oscars.
The Game Awards 2025 is here and, while we don't know all the surprises in store for us this year, this article will be gathering all the biggest moments and reveals in one place to ensure you don't miss a thing.
The novelist behind the blockbuster series of young adult books breaks down what he can't wait for fans to see in the new episodes on Disney+.
The lowest price I've ever seen for a 34" OLED monitor from any store and any brand.
A great gift idea for both Xbox and PC gamers.
Today only, you can get two of the year's biggest games, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Assassin's Creed Shadows, on sale for under $40 each.
Battlefield Studios have issued a lengthy statement after the Battlefield 6 Winter Offensive 1.1.3.0 update resulted in widespread issues related to UI, gameplay stuttering, Breakthrough, and much, much more.
Have you had a chance to try it yet?It's been just over a week now since Lost Records: Bloom & Rage arrived on Xbox Game Pass following its initial release back in February of this year, and we're keen to hear how you've been getting on with it so far.Read the full article on purexbox.com
Native 8K content may be lacking, but 8K-upscaled 4K content looks amazing.
Lords of the Fallen publisher CI Games has just announced and released a surprise final update to its 2023 game — mere hours ahead of its sequel getting a fresh airing at tonight's Game Awards.
It's been a PS5 console exclusive for over two years.Back in August of 2023, horror adventure game Fort Solis made its debut on PS5 and PC as an ambitious Unreal Engine 5 title starring voice actors Roger Clark (Red Dead Redemption) and Troy Baker (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle), but it unfortunately released to some pretty lukewarm reviews with an average of 60 on Metacritic.Now, we're finally getting an Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S version on December 19th, and even though the reviews might not be that amazing for it, we're definitely intrigued by what we're seeing.
Rockstar has claimed the employees it recently fired were dismissed because they leaked game features for upcoming and unannounced titles in Discord, not because they were trying to unionize.
The Bambu Lab P1S Black Friday deal is back, and refurbished Sonos gear and Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones are heavily discounted. Plus bonus Alienware and power station bargains.
Time is ticking down until Geoff Keighley once again emerges from his fleshy cocoon, brushes the Garibaldi crumbs from his suit, and strides onto the stage to bellow his customary challenge of "Who wants some?".We're pulling together a quick rundown of everything announced at The Game Awards 2025 so you don't need to risk life and limb by straying too close to Geoff's grasping fingers.Read more
DC Studios has released the debut Supergirl movie, which has big Guardians of the Galaxy vibes and offers a very brief look at Jason Momoa’s Lobo.
From Supergirl herself to Lobo, Krem, and Ruthye Marye Knoll, let's break down every DC character who appears in the new Supergirl trailer.
We sit down with Squanch Games Chief Creative Officer Mikey Spano and Chief Design Officer Erich Meyr to discuss the art of making a comedy game sequel as they put the finishing touches on High on Life 2, which will be released on February 13, 2026 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S – including launching on day one into Xbox Game Pass.
Three games to play for free this weekend!As expected, Xbox Free Play Days has returned for the next few days!We've got three games in the mix this week, one of which requires a Game Pass membership (The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos) with the other two being completely free for everyone on Xbox to try.
Around this time last year, Helldivers 2 was being filled with squishy squids.Also being squished in late 2024 were some players' positive perceptions of Arrowhead's gear pricing, as a Killzone crossover arrived and was so throughly panned for being expensive that the studio ended up giving the last bit of it away for free as a make-good.Read more
You know that weird chime that plays when you find a secret in the classic Tomb Raider games?Great, now we’re ready to talk about the leaked images of Tomb Raider: Legacy Of Atlantis, which appears to be the new Tomb Raider game due to be announced at G-Star K-Dog’s Game Awards show tonight.Or at least, one of them.
World of Warcraft players have discovered a trick that makes their houses float in the air, which a number of people have used to make wild flying creations. Better yet, instead of patching it out, Blizzard has surprisingly given its blessing for airborne abodes.
The Last of Us TV show is getting a few Funko Pop figures. Joel, Ellie, Tommy, and clicker figures are available to preorder and set to be released on February 4.
"Because it is dangerous to drive like this in real life, never imitate."Prompting me to give TubezGames' small lorry game a go was the fact it's just emerged from early access, having been in the oven since July 2023.Now, though, it's hit 1.0, and I'm seriously considering seeing what the rest of its now-complete story has to offer.
South Park manages to tie together a number of bizarre storylines in its Season 28 finale, in the process giving us another in a long line of great Christmas episodes.
Perfect if you're not a subscriber already.It's no secret that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is getting more and more expensive as the years roll on, but today we've seen the return of the $1 offer that's proved so popular in the past — an entire month of access for less than a coffee!You can get this by going to the "Join Xbox Game Pass" page on the Xbox website, where if you're eligible, every tier including Game Pass Ultimate will have a "first month for $1" (or your local currency) option.
Everything you need to know to preorder the upcoming Genshin Impact Limited Edition PS5 DualSense controller, including how much it costs, where to buy it, and what makes it special.
IGN recently chatted with Justin Theroux about Fallout: Season 2, his particular interpretation of Robert House, and the choices he made in bringing this iconic video game character to life: "He thinks that what he's probably doing is good for humanity writ large, to shake the Etch A Sketch and start the world over again."
Disney has agreed to license 200 of its most beloved characters for use in Sora's generative AI videos, alongside a $1 billion investment in OpenAI.
Big news for zombieheads: Sony is moving forward with a third installment of the 28 Years Later films, with the decision coming over a month before the release of the second installment, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
HUGE discounts for great games!Looking for some cheap Xbox games during the Xbox Game Awards Sale 2025?This brand-new sale went live on the Xbox Store earlier today, and in addition to a bunch of recent releases that are only slightly discounted, there are so many other great games that are reduced by up to 95%.
I want to get away, just like a dragonfly, Mr Bond.I want a Milky Way, Mr Bond.Oh, and the official James Bond account appears to have leaked a trailer showing Lenny Kravitz as a007: First Light, villain, Mr Bond.
We therefore invite you to join us for our liveblog coverage, which if you don’t have tickets yourself, promises to be the most up-to-the-minute source of game reveals and announcements that you can get without standing up against the theatre doors with a big cup to your ears.And Geoff hates it when people do that.Read more
G-Kay, the awarder of golden PDF badges to videogames, best pal to every celebrity less tasteful than Edward Norton.Gentleman Keighley, with his mindflaying footwear and his hands all lubed up to wangle fresh announcements from the games industry's chapped orifices.He's got something stuffed down them, something that honks and rumbles like an elephant seal, something that yearns to raise the banner of victory over 10 million planets.
We're already stoked for Free Comic Book Day 2026, as Oni Press reveals a tantalizing new special spotlighting Matt Kindt's Flux House imprint.
"According to two sources familiar with this year’s show".With The Game Awards taking place later today, an interesting report has come out of Kotaku detailing the inner workings of the event, with a couple of sources even highlighting how much trailers apparently cost for the show.The outlet says that according to "two sources familiar with this year’s show", a three-minute slot could cost over $1 million USD for a developer / publisher, while a one-minute trailer could cost up to $450,000 USD.
As the wait for The Elder Scrolls 6 goes on, some fans believe developer Bethesda teased its release year in a live-action Skyrim trailer.
Kim Kardashian is joining Fortnite, and you'll be able to play as the TV and fashion icon beginning this weekend.
Of all the games we expected to see winning a "Game of the Year" award for 2025, Halo 3 wasn't one of them!Nevertheless, the classic 2007 Xbox shooter has just been awarded that title by none other than GameStop.In a six-minute video, it's revealed that Battlefield 6, Donkey Kong Bonanza, Ghost of Yotei and Halo 3 were up for GameStop's "Game of the Year", with Halo 3 crowned as "the best game of the year for the 18th year in a row".
The culprit behind the recent viral but very much fake Shenmue 4 trailer has apologized for creating false footage of the franchise's fictional fourth game.
Xbox dev Obsidian has just dropped an absolutely gargantuan patch for The Outer Worlds 2, bringing with it brand-new features, quest changes, bug fixes and lots more besides.As noted in our headline here, new field-of-view options for third-person mode are a welcome addition - as are the fixes for quests, combat tweaks, animation improvements and more.Read the full article on purexbox.com
Monster Hunter Wilds Title Update 4, which addresses a number of stability and performance issues, arrives on December 16, Capcom has announced.
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead is working on a roguelite mode, the studio’s boss has revealed, although there's no guarantee it will actually come out.
While I'm not going to argue that Obsidian's fantasy RPG matches the depth of the genre’s topline measuring sticks, your Baldur’s Gates, your Witchers, your New Vegases, it did provide me a good time in 2025.I found the world of Eora - with its mushrooms, sprawling coastlines, dense forests, arid deserts, and more mushrooms - colourful and varied enough to whet my appetite for exploration.Combat was satisfying enough that I looked forward to each opportunity to whip out my trusty blunderbuss and characters were engaging enough that hanging out with them in camp was a pleasant way to while away evenings.
My last couple of reviews were of a laidback farming sim and a showcase of nostalgic hardware.Let's cleanse our palates of sugar with a post about stinking murderous zealots.For you see, there is now a demo available for Band Of Crusaders, the new tactics RPG from Polish developers Virtual Alchemy and publishers NCSoft.
Red Dead Redemption for Xbox Series X|S is finally here, and now that most of you should have gotten your free upgrade if you were eligible, we're sure plenty of Xbox fans have been enjoying this Rockstar classic at 60FPS.DF tackles the Xbox versions last, at roughly 11 minutes 30 in the clip.The long and short of it is that the new versions match the old backwards compatible enhanced editions in terms of resolution (1440p on Series S, 4K on Series X), but the boost to LOD and frame rate are big wins for this new native port.
Just a day after Bethesda announced and launched The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on Nintendo Switch 2, the publisher has acknowledged the game has performance issues.
Jim Ward, the voice of Ratchet & Clank's Captain Qwark, has died aged 66.
Yet another leak ahead of tonight's The Game Awards 2025 has revealed a legendary music star as a new James Bond villain in 007 First Light.
Creative Assembly has confirmed it has a new Total War video game set to be announced at The Game Awards. But what is it? Warhammer 40,000 fans think they know — and one eagle-eyed viewer even spotted what looks like concrete evidence.
AAA titles galore!With The Game Awards 2025 officially taking place later today, Xbox has unveiled its special "The Game Awards Sale" on the Xbox Store featuring discounts for over 150 major games, available for the next week.There's some seriously big stuff in here like Split Fiction, Monster Hunter Wilds, EA Sports FC 26 and South of Midnight, along with plenty of classics that often appear in sales like these, but nevertheless have been reduced heavily.
Jonathan Blow has just "announced an announcement," teasing he just may be getting on a plane today to join a "gaming industry event coming up." All roads lead to The Game Awards!
Publishers and studios who want to show off their games during the main show at a Keighleyfest usually have to pay a not small chunk of change for the privilege.According to a fresh report from Kotaku which aims to deliver the latest figures for a couple of different trailer lengths at this year's Game Awards, those handing over the cash are now looking at paying seven figures for a three-minute showing of their game.Read more
The Elder Scrolls 6 may be the next big brand new video game announced by Bethesda to be in the works, but Fallout is the franchise the studio is doing the most in right now, Todd Howard has told IGN.
The Times of War DLC would for the first time give you an authored story and set of missions for each faction.Originally announced for release in "Fall 2025", there are players of the series who have waited nearly 20 years for this, and they're still waiting because there's no sign of the DLC yet.Nor Harbinger, the expansion bringing a fourth playable race to Sins of a Solar Empire 2.
Another day, another leak ahead of The Game Awards 2025 — which is set to feature a look at what's next for Tomb Raider heroine Lara Croft.
The next Hunger Games prequel arrives on November 20, 2026.
Sold and shipped from Ecoflow's official AliExpress storefront.
Certified refurbished with 2-year warranty.
Every retailer insists the big sales are done for the year. Yet every time I blink, another discount swan-dives into my feed like it never got the memo
Buoyed by stand-out performances by the lead cast, Season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians continues to prove why a television series is the best possible format for adapting Rick Riordan's popular novels.

You don't need to spend over $2,000 to play the newest games in glorious 4K.
Xbox has announced today that Call of Duty is the #1 franchise on Xbox Game Pass for total players and hours in 2025, in addition to being #1 in November (for the Black Ops 7 launch).It obviously makes sense that one of the world's biggest gaming IPs would command so much attention on Xbox's service, especially considering there are multiple titles under the COD banner across various Game Pass tiers.Read the full article on purexbox.com
I think there is a very compelling case for Twitter not being the place that information about, well, honestly anything, should be casually shared in a matter of fact manner.It is a site for, if we must use it, posting things like "just downloaded some MP3s to my iPod Touch," not sharing that Arrowhead are currently testing a roguelite mode in Helldivers 2, which is exactly what the game's creative director Johan Pilestedt did today. Read more
Matches the previously expired Black Friday deal.
DreamWorks Animation’s talking-animal movie classic, Madagascar, is coming back to theaters to celebrate its 20th anniversary next month.
Includes the Automatic Material System (AMS) for multi-color printing.
With trends and trendy games passing by these days, I'd understand if you'd already forgotten about Suika Game.I am not here to remind you of its existence to talk about it, more so use it as genre context for Dogpile, a new game that is essentially the question "what if Suika Game actually had a bunch of dogs and was also a roguelike deckbuilder?" Read more
Jeff Garcia, who played Sheen in Jimmy Neutron and Pip in Barnyard, has died at the age of 50.
These would make affordable, and extremely practical, holiday gifts.
Milano's Odd Job Collection is the English version of a PS1 game that released exclusively in Japan back in 1999, and it just so happens to be making its Xbox debut in the process as well.The fan translators at Hilltop Works have teamed up with publisher XSEED Games to bring Milano's Odd Job Collection to a new audience here in 2025, featuring English text and voiceovers along with improved load times, save states and a rewind feature.It's only £12.79 / $14.99 for Xbox Series X and Series S, and it's available right now.
A super handy kit that includes everything you need to get into your PC, Switch, controllers, and more.
I am most certainly the kind of sucker that has few complaints about Final Fantasy 7 Remake being split into multiple parts.I love my grumpy idiot all too realistic looking Cloud, I think Midgar being so well realised helps to justify the splitting of the game, and as maximalist as Rebirth is, there's a quality to it I can't help but admire, even with its many flaws.Keeping things fresh is still something necessary in dividing the game up though, and in a recent interview, director Naoki Hamaguchi spoke of how he's trying to do that with the as-of-yet untitled third part.
West Coast fast-food chain In-N-Out will no longer call for order “67” after the nearly inescapable viral 6-7 trend became overwhelmingly popular in its stores.
Live for the next week.Xbox has just set a new edition of its Buy One, Get One Free sales live on the Microsoft Store today - with this particular promotion revolving around a pretty slim selection of indie titles all-told.Yep, as these deals usually go, this isn't the most inspired list from Xbox here, but there are some standouts such as the three Monument Valley titles, TOEM, Beacon Pines, Cat Quest and more.
Even with a liquid cooled Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU and 64GB of RAM, it's still the cheapest 5090 prebuilt.
Sure, it can be a helpful tool, but sometimes you need to pick up a sledgehammer, go back to your hometown that is filled with robots, and smash it all down.Or, at least that's the argument that Virtue and a Sledgehammer makes, the latest game from The Red Strings Club and The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood developer Deconstructeam. Read more
As part of the new AMD Redstone technology.AMD has today unveiled its new "AMD FSR Redstone" technology, which combines the company's upscaling technology with "new machine learning (ML)-powered advancements" in FSR Frame Generation, FSR Ray Regeneration, and FSR Radiance Caching.The video above goes into detail on all of these features, such as how FSR Frame Generation is becoming smoother and more seamless, FSR Radiance Caching is helping to reduce the demand of ray-tracing on a game, and FSR Ray Regeneration is working to restore detail in ray-traced effects.
Games Workshop has revived the Siege of Terra: End of Ruin special edition book after scalpers descended upon its pre-orders, forcing Warhammer.com itself offline. And now fans are hoping this marks the end of Warhammer 40,000 book scalpers.
Pirates of the Caribbean actor Johnny Depp is set to produce and potentially star in an English-language adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita.
"We're thoughtful about how we approach that".In a new interview leading up to Season 2 of the TV show, Bethesda legend Todd Howard was pressed about the likelihood of fans getting some Fallout remakes and remasters - and while somewhat reserved, the Bethesda Game Studios boss did have some interesting things to say about the team's plans.When asked about this particular subject, Todd says that BGS is "working on a whole bunch of stuff", going on to explain how he prefers waiting until closer to the release to actually talk about these projects.
Save $15 on Pokémon Legends Z-A and its Mega Dimension DLC, plus huge discounts on first-party Nintendo Switch games, Cyberpunk 2077 gear, plushies, and more
Someone has calculated exactly how many hours of recorded dialogue there are in Baldur's Gate 3, a task so unnecessarily large that even Larian Studios hadn't done it before.
All these massive, multi-billion dollar acquisitions are getting a bit scary, aren't they?The one on everyone's minds at the moment is of course Netflix's proposed takeover of movie studio giant Warner Bros, offering up a cool $82.7 billion in exchange.This, of course, has an indescribably massive potential to ruin mainstream cinema, but we won't get into that right this second, because there's another concern: how much the streamer does not seem to care about the games side of Warner Bros.
McDonald's has pulled a new ad created entirely with generative AI following a major backlash online.
A new trademark suggests Larian Studios is returning to its Divinity series - here's what Baldur's Gate 3 fans need to know about the developer's rumoured new RPG.
The Game Awards is upon us, with the 2025 edition of the event going ahead on Thursday, December 11th.TGA is always a big celebration of the industry, both in terms of what's come out over the past year and what's to come in future - and this week, host Geoff Keighley has been talking about that very balancing act in a lengthy interview with The Game Business.We've thrown the full version of this chat up above, where Keighley discusses a whole range of topics relating to both The Game Awards and the industry at large.
Rockstar Games' firing of more than 30 workers just over a month ago has once again been brought up by UK politicians, with prime minister Keir Starmer calling it a "deeply concerning case" which will be looked into by government ministers.Rockstar have been accused of union busting by the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain over the firings, with the union having filed legal claims against the company.Read more
We've got another new Xbox controller variant today in the form of the "Fallout Pip-Boy Edition", and there are three different versions in all - available to purchase today on the Microsoft Store.The standalone one features the same basic design as the other two, but with a bright green d-pad, black thumbsticks and triggers, and a bright green back case.Both the standard and Elite versions can then be customised via Xbox Design Lab if you're willing to spend the money, but be warned that even the regular version of the controller retails at $98.97, discounted down to $82.97 at launch.
Redstone deals exclusively in more sophisticated machine-learning tools that specifically require the latest Radeon graphics hardware to function.This lack of support for older Radeons is a major strategic shift, but AMD insist that the image quality and stability improvements will be worth it.And, with apologies to anyone who bought an RX 7900 XTX: AMD might have a point.
"Is this a hint?".Last week, we mentioned how GTA 5's Michael De Santa would be returning in a new update for GTA Online called "A Safehouse in the Hills", and that update has gone live today on Xbox - you can go and check it out right now.As you can see from the "Michael Returns" video, De Santa and his wife Amanda make a fairly lengthy appearance when buying a mansion in the new update, welcoming you to the neighbourhood.
Romero Games, the studio founded by Doom co-creator John Romero and Brenda Romero, are marching on despite losing staff after Microsoft suddenly pulling funding for their next shooter amid mass layoffs this summer.Romero says the project isn't living on in its previous guise, but is instead having elements pulled from it as part of a near-total redesign into a smaller game.Read more
We've got an exclusive preview of Mike Mignola and Jesse Lonergan's Miss Truesdale and the Rise of Man #1, as the new series reveals the origins of the Hellboy universe.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #13 introduces a major new villain named Ujigami, and you'll never guess who's secretly behind the mask. We've got all the spoiler-y details.
As players got their teeth in Sins of a Solar Empire 2 at launch last year, they began to report odd behaviour from the galaxy's computer-controlled factions.It wasn't that the NPC commanders resisted human expansion, but it was as though they hated humans.Read more
"We have a lot of stuff we can put in the game".Since Microsoft pulled funding for its unannounced game back in the summer, Romero Games has been trying to salvage the project for a future release - and now it sounds as though the DOOM co-creator has managed that feat, but not in the way you might expect.Talking in a new poll at an event in Spain (via Eurogamer), John Romero revealed that this cancelled Xbox project has "survived", but that it's "been basically completely redesigned" - even though it still "incorporates a lot of the elements" that were present in the old version of the game.
Netflix has released the debut trailer for Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2 alongside first look photos, confirming a 2026 release window.
Rockstar's controversial recent firing of 31 Grand Theft Auto 6 staff has now reached the UK's Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who has described the matter as "deeply concerning" and pledged that ministers would invesigate.
PlayStation has their Wrap-Up already.We're getting to that time of the year where people want to look back on their Xbox habits from the past 12 months and see how many games they've played, how many achievements they've unlocked, how many Microsoft Rewards points they've earned and a whole bunch of other statistics from 2025!In fact, we're seeing a lot of people searching for information on the "Xbox Wrapped 2025" right now, especially since PlayStation unveiled their "Wrap-Up" for 2025 earlier this week.
Outward 2 doesn’t hold your hand, and I admire that. Exploring its gorgeous world is a lot of fun. I wish it was a little less buggy, and I wish that there was a bit more to do in a world that can sometimes feel big and empty, but I did enjoying just picking a direction, setting off into the world, and seeing what I could see.
Another day, another Skyrim port — this time The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Anniversary Edition is out on Nintendo Switch 2 after a shadowdrop — and even Bethesda can see the funny side.
RGG Studio is looking into it.Unfortunately, a similar issue has cropped up for the new re-releases of Yakuza 0: Director's Cut, Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza Kiwami 2!All three of these games were meant to receive special upgrade discounts for owners of the Xbox One versions, but some players haven't been getting access to them as intended.
A six-minute prologue for next year's Christopher Nolan epic The Odyssey will air in select IMAX theaters this weekend, and again next week before screenings of Avatar: Fire and Ash.
From Spider-Man 2 to Alien Isolation, these are the best licensed games based on movies.
Doom co-creator John Romero has revealed that while his previous shooter was canceled, "elements" of it live on in his latest secret project.
PlayStation has just dropped an overview trailer for what's coming to PS5 in 2026, and while we certainly wouldn't normally cover that here at Pure Xbox, one certain big green inclusion has made us reconsider.Sony is directly advertising Halo: Campaign Evolved as one of its "must-play games coming soon to PS5".Regardless, it's still weird to see PlayStation advertise the game - especially as one of its most-anticipated titles of the 2026 gaming calendar.
Fans believe we're just days away from our first proper peek at Avengers: Doomsday, as Marvel reportedly readies the movie's debut trailer.
South Park looks set to bring Season 28 to a close with the long-awaited(?) delivery of Satan and Donald Trump’s ‘butt baby.’ Here's when Episode 5 comes out.
The clunk of a gear change.All sensations that are, presumably, enjoyed by cyclists worldwide, and can be felt for yourself in the game behind door number ten: Wheel World!Read more
Arc Raiders' winter update's now got got a proper release date.Snow will be coming to the shooter on December 16th, and judging by the way Embark have revealed that, it looks like there could be a temperature-based twist coming to the usual murder-deathing and trying to sneak into places you shouldn't.Read more
Netflix has admitted it did not attribute any value to Warner Bros.’ video game business in its $82.7 billion acquisition deal, sparking concern for the future of everything from Mortal Kombat to Hogwarts Legacy.
"They're relatively minor compared to the grand scheme of things".Last week, we heard how Netflix was attempting to purchase Warner Bros. in a stunning $82.7 billion deal, before Paramount ended up fighting back with a deal of their own — we'll see how this all unfolds in the coming months.One of the big questions at the time of the Netflix announcement was whether Warner Bros. Games would be impacted by the takeover, which eventually ended up being confirmed, but no specifics were provided.
With Call of Duty Black Ops 7 now out in the wild and having earned a largely mixed reception, Activision have said right, that's it, time to do a thing.Said thing is committing to no longer releasing entries in the same sub-series, be that Modern Warfare or Black Ops, in back-to-back years going forwards.Read more
2026 is upon us!Today, NetherRealm's Mortal Kombat 1 joins the XGP library - playable for Series X|S, PC and Cloud players across the PC Game Pass, Premium and Ultimate tiers.We also have one more addition for tomorrow at the time of writing; that being Bratz: Rhythm & Style.
Two more titles headed to the PlayStation Plus catalog for Extra and Premium members have reportedly been revealed, and are due to become available next week.
Arc Raiders has a "cold snap" on the way, and it's set to arrive on December 16.
An HBO Max subscriber has filed a class-action lawsuit over Netflix’s proposed $72 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. seeking to block the deal.
Today's release of Pokémon Legends: Z-A DLC Mega Dimension has seen the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 adventure receive its version 2.0.0 update — and a list of all-new Mega Pokémon evolutions.
Three new trademarks which very much look to be related to Larian's Divinity RPG series have been unearthed, with one closely mirroring the design of a desert monolith Geoff Keighley's posted a picture of in advance of The Geoff Awards.That monolith teaser, which Keoff captioned "regal.inspiring.thickness" has been the subject of much chatter for the past week or so, as the big showcase hype machine churns.Read more
Restory sets you up as the manager of a small Tokyo electronics maintenance shop at the turn of the millennium.Customers bring you broken devices to painstakingly disassemble, clean, and replace their broken parts, restoring them to working order.Though you can also order broken devices and spare parts online using your delightfully dated PC.
Can't get much better for this price.
Call of Duty will no longer release multiple Black Ops or Modern Warfare games back-to-back, after two Modern Warfare releases in 2022 and 2023, and two Black Ops releases in 2024 and 2025, respectively, and negative feedback and concerning sales reports for the most recent release, Black Ops 7.
After what sounds like a disappointing launch for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Xbox's Activision team has put out a frank and surprisingly open message about the future of the franchise moving forward.In an address to series fans, Activision has announced that it will no longer release back-to-back Black Ops or Modern Warfare games - "to ensure we provide an absolutely unique experience each and every year".The team admitted that it knows "for some of you, the franchise has not met your expectations fully" this year.
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From karting chaos to murderous Vikings, strategy disasters to horror that’ll haunt your sleep, this idle Wednesday's deals are going off.
The mobile version of the PC game, coming to PCGP.The teams behind the Age of Empires and Age of Mythology series' have been sharing their plans for 2026 today, which includes a new PC release for Age of Empires Mobile - a game that's proved a hit on Android and iOS.This version will be available on PC Game Pass at launch, as well as purchasable via the Xbox PC app and on Steam.

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Sigourney Weaver may soon swing into the world of Prime Video’s next video game adaptation, as the Alien star is reportedly in talks to join the cast of the new Tomb Raider show.
The world's ended, but doesn't it look pretty?That seems to be the central premise of Verdant, a game in which a young bloke dirt bikes around the plant-filled remains of post-apocalyptic 1980s Germany, figuring out the conundrums all young dirt bikers face.Read more
Sorry, I've been sent on behalf of The Yolf, a giant horned cat creature who sits on a branch demanding payment in Mandrake.This folklore-infused gardening sim from Sunless Sea and Fallen London devs Failbetter games has just had a fresh outing at today's Wholesome Snack showcase, putting centre-stage the The Yolf's need for you to get your affairs in order.Read more
The mystery of the weird desert statue may have been solved in advance of The Game Awards on Thursday, as some newly registered trademarks reveal a game and a logo from a familiar franchise that looks essentially identical to a symbol on the monolith.
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Russell Crowe is ready to talk about Gladiator 2, and he’s not exactly happy with how Ridley Scott’s sequel ties in with the original.
Update: More titles revealed, all live until December 31st.The Xbox Winter Demo Fest for 2025 (otherwise known as the Indie Selects Demo Fest) has now kicked off, allowing you to play over 20 games for free.It's not officially being promoted at the time of writing, but we've done some sleuthing and discovered these 20+ titles that are part of it — with 30+ set to be announced in total.
Ahead of the real thing next week.Last week, we mentioned how ESPN and Microsoft had joined forces to host the first ever "Xbox Bowl" in Texas on December 18th, and now it's actually been added to EA Sports College Football 26 across all platforms including PS5!You can access the Xbox Bowl through Exhibition mode, and it includes some pretty neat branding such as a giant Xbox controller logo in the middle of the field, as well as a "This is an Xbox Bowl" slogan on the advertising boards.
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Notorious Battlefield 6 skin Wicked Grin has had its colors toned down once again, but this time, players are celebrating the removal of, well, its Wicked Grin.
A game where music is illegal and you do crimes. It’s the perfect tone-setting tagline for Unbeatable, a rhythm game about a bunch of young adults (and one child) rebelling against an oppressive regime by playing raucous garage rock. Read more
This is just the Longlist.BAFTA has revealed its official Longlists for the BAFTA Games Awards 2026 today, which includes one Xbox title in the "Best Game" category - that being Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.These Longlists have been compiled by over 1,700 BAFTA members (made up of "experienced games professionals working in the industry") for games that were released between November 16th, 2024 and November 14th, 2025 - hence why Indiana Jones managed to sneak into the "Best Game" list.
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Introducing High on Life 2's newest weapon: Travis, voiced by Ken Marino.
Wrong, current-gen Nintendo players are being treated to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim once again.Yep, Xbox's Bethesda team has today shadow dropped Skyrim Anniversary Edition on Switch 2 (that means a surprise release for those of you who aren't down with the lingo).You can have a look at this new new new version of Skyrim via the trailer up above - a version that Bethesda says features "enhanced resolution, improved load times, and optimized performance".
My dear Watson, Prime Video just released first-look images for their upcoming series Young Sherlock, which will star Hero Fiennes Tiffin as Holmes himself.
Not a lot of games have "runbacks" or significant treks you have to repeatedly do when you lose to a boss. But FromSoftware and Hollow Knight games have some heinous ones. How heinous? Truly heinous. But we wanted to know, which one is the worst?
"There is an effort being made".Well, it sounds like Team Xbox "hopes" to bring those classic original Xbox and Xbox 360 titles over from console to PC at some point in the future.This is according to the often-cited leaker NateTheHate (otherwise known as NateDrake) on ResetEra, who advised that Xbox is making an effort to try and turn it into a reality.
Also, I'm distantly related to Ronald Reagan and spend summers in an underwater chateau.These aren't just very true facts about the author of this article, they're things you can tell the reprehensible billionaires of the future in Better Than Us.It's the latest work of Vampire Therapist developers Little Bat Games, and it's set to arrive in 2026.
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Epic Games has announced the next era of LEGO Fortnite, via its huge Ninjago: Rise of the Ninja update which lands later this week.
The 4K steelbook, standard 4K release, and Blu-ray of Tron: Ares is now available to preorder at various retailers. It's set to be released on January 6, 2026.
"I didn’t leave Playground to build another Horizon".In a new interview with Traxion, former Forza Horizon developer Gavin Raeburn has talked about their new racing game being built over at Lighthouse Games, whilst also touching on 2021's Forza Horizon 5 and how the Xbox title was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.Raeburn says that the team at Playground Games was just starting to turn its attention towards Fable before the pandemic hit, which forced the team to go all-hands-on-deck with Horizon 5 as the team adapted to work from home.
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced PEGI rating ahoy.The fair winds have seemed to be blowing our sails towards Ubisoft's long-rumoured remake or remaster of the fourth mainline Assassin's Creed, the one that's all piratey, for years at this point.At last, it seems, we may be on track to slide our hull into its port.
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is the full name of Ubisoft's piratical remake that's had more leaks than a sunken ship.
Bethesda has released The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on pretty much every platform since it came out in 2011, but now it’s found another: the Nintendo Switch 2. And it's out today.
Here comes the remake / remaster!No specific platforms are mentioned in the process, but it's said the game will feature "violence", "bad language" and "in-game purchases".It's also got the official title of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced.
This year's big new LEGO set for Black Friday is the ship from Star Trek: The Next Generation. It's available on backorder now, with shipping pushed to December 21 at the time of this writing.
Creator Genndy Tartakovsky returns with a whole new take on Spear for Primal Season 3. But it almost didn't happen.
The team behind the Cyberpunk TCG reveals how the game is being built, showcasing early art, character choices, and insight into the collaboration with CD Projekt Red.
"Finally got the RDR free upgrade...".Yesterday, we posted an article about folks still not receiving their free upgrades for Red Dead Redemption on Xbox, and it looks as though Rockstar has seen the outcry and implemented a new fix.<related ids="194925">Read the full article on purexbox.com
Dhurandhar review: Bollywood’s latest hit is a grounded, grisly gangster-action saga with ugly underpinnings.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are finally getting a first-person video game, and it's a VR game. Both novel approaches to the Heroes in a Half-Shell seem to work quite well for TMNT: Empire City, though, based on our initial first impressions.
Ever since Resident Evil Requiem was revealed earlier this year, it's been rumoured that series stalwart Leon S. Kennedy would star in some role - despite Grace Ashcroft being the centre of attention in marketing materials so far.Yep, ahead of The Game Awards later this week, new artwork for the latest Resi title has appeared on PSN.this being the first time we've had proper confirmation of Kennedy's existence in Requiem thus far.
A day after GameStop celebrated its Trade Anything Day event, the retailer's staff have shared their experiences of handling everything customers brought in — including numerous items deliberately designed to shock or gross out employees at the cash register.
The same source has now revealed that two of the game's lead developers are spinning up a new 2K studio instead, with one of them confirming their involvement shortly afterwards.Yep, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier has given us an update on the whole Take-Two, Perfect Dark situation.The renowned journalist now says that studio head Darrell Gallagher and director Brian Horton are starting a "brand-new studio within 2K", and Gallagher has gone on to announce their involvement with this project via LinkedIn.
A major investor in Final Fantasy maker Square Enix has published a 100-page document criticizing the company's performance and calling for a "fundamental reassessment" of its business, citing perceived "sluggish" revenue and profits.
Break out your finest middle-parted hairdo, as Leon Kennedy's in Resident Evil Requiem.The Resi 2 and Resi 4 protagonist's presence has been leaked by the evil resident that is cover art being pushed out too early on the PlayStation Store, which is like Steam, but a bit more blue.Read more
Love to see older titles getting the treatment!It's always great to see brand-new releases being included as part of the Xbox Play Anywhere program, but it's even more exciting when older titles suddenly join it as well, especially when they're major AAA favourites.That's exactly what's happened today, with both Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater and Mortal Kombat 1 both becoming part of Xbox Play Anywhere, meaning if you buy them on console, you get a free version via the Xbox PC app.
This month's Civ 7 update, 1.3.1, will rock up today, December 9th.Following on from the beefy 1.3.0 update, which added in a bunch of new navally-themed bits and revamped battling at sea, this update's comparatively compact, but still packs a new map type and some civ balancing tweaks which are well worth being aware of if you're gonna be Civving over the holidays.Read more
Infinite Wealth did just that, jetting off to Hawaii for a vast swath of its plot.I'd not have put money on RGG Studio following that game up with a pirate adventure literally called Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, but that's exactly what they did this year.Series regular Goro Majima’s swashbuckling sojourn is pitched firmly towards those who revel in the surreal side of the Japanese crime series.
The first official The Boys video game is a virtual reality exclusive for Meta Quest 3 and PlayStation VR2.
"I can't confirm or deny what you're asking".We've already heard about how Xbox is planning to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the brand in a big way next year, and Xbox architect Jason Ronald has been discussing this more in a new interview with the BBC in the UK.Ronald's interview was mainly about the ROG Xbox Ally and why now was a good time to create a handheld in partnership with ASUS, but the host couldn't resist asking a separate question about whether more original Xbox games would arrive on Xbox Game Pass in the future.
At long last, Leon S. Kennedy has been confirmed to appear in Resident Evil Requiem — via a leaked image on the PlayStation Store.
Thieves keen to steal Pokémon cards have struck again in Southern California, turning over a Burbank store and taking more than $100,000 of stock.
One of the biggest drops of the month!Today, we have four titles joining the main Game Pass Ultimate library - three across console and PC, and one PC-only addition.Here's all the info you need on today's Xbox Game Pass titles (December 9):Read the full article on purexbox.com
Final Fantasy's Cloud has one of the most recognizable weapons in gaming history, but the Final Fantasy 7 Remake team actually considered resizing his iconic Buster Sword to make it more realistic before deciding to stick with the original design.
Pokémon Go now finally lets players trade creatures from afar — a feature that fans have wanted for almost a decade.
Star Wars' Daisy Ridley has reacted to Adam Driver's The Hunt for Ben Solo movie and the fan campaign trying to save it, saying: "I like when people join forces."
A full-on remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 was "technically on the road map" to follow the original Knights of the Old Republic remake which has been in development for the past few years.Well, that's at least the plan LucasFilm Games and co had as of March this year, with the KOTOR 2 remake's current status looking to be up in the air.Read more
Nintendo has released its latest system software update for the Switch and Switch 2, bringing both consoles' firmware up to Version 21.1.0.
Sorry, puzzle geeks. Don't expect a Blue Prince 2 any time soon. Or, ever, really.
I spoke to Blue Prince creator Tonda Ros last month, who told me that for him personally, Blue Prince has not yet ended. But it will, eventually. And he has many more, very different adventures ahead of him.
Somehow we blinked and the so called big sales period has come and gone, yet the bargain bins refuse to take the hint.
Saber Interactive’s troubled Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake is reportedly still in development – and a KOTOR 2 remake may be on the way, too.
I am sure the words "new" and "Ace Attorney game" have functioned as a sleeper agent's activation words for some of you, and these are words that Capcom themselves have sort of put together, but let's slow down before we get carried away.As spotted by Mega Man fansite Rockman Corner, Capcom have released their integrated report for 2025, which for the most part is boring, corporate nonsense.It also appears to suggest that the developer is thinking about new ways it can further develop series like Ace Attorney, as well as Mega Man and Devil May Cry.
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Following the cancelation of Perfect Dark and the dissolution of its dedicated studio, The Initiative, two of the project's leads have reportedly found a new home at Take-Two Interactive, and more specifically at 2K.
Save $100 on Microsoft and ASUS' handheld PC collaboration at Amazon right now, letting you take your Xbox Game Pass games on the go.
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Cassette Boy is a game that looks to follow in the footsteps of perspective puzzlers like Fez and Tunic, two games I bring up because of their explicit use of space to hide more, tantalizingly secret space.Out of the two, it's much closer to Fez, being a 2D world you can rotate to gain new, three dimensional perspectives.Where Fez is a platformer that switches between different, still 2D planes, Cassette Boy lets you switch between front on and more isometric views, and in its world, anything that can't be seen, doesn't exist.
December is packed with romance, thrills, and action, with some fantastic books to end 2025. Here are our favorites.

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Tomb Raider will be at The Game Awards this week. Which Tomb Raider, you ask? The game or the show? We don't know! Maybe both!
Riot Games revealed a whole host of new cards and mechanics for Riftbound's second set, Spiritforged, arriving in 2026.
Riot Games' new card game is off to a promising start. I took to a local game store to talk to Riftbound players about its potential.
The Alters update!Get your The Alters update!Fresh, hot and ready to download, it's got some quality of life bits, some new features and base things like a "gamer's den", distressingly, a photo mode, and a number of other things.
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Who is Homelander punching? Where are the Gen V characters? We break down the biggest questions from the first teaser trailer for The Boys Season 5.
Today marked the first ever 11 Bit Studios Digital Showcase, which was only a small event highlighting a few titles from the Polish developer / publisher's portfolio including the likes of Frostpunk and The Alters.There were no brand-new game announcements here, but some titles have received DLC and/or free updates.Read the full article on purexbox.com
Earlier this week you may have seen what was framed as a leaked trailer for Shenmue 4.Now, as confirmed by Shenmue developer Ys Net, it turns out that that footage has nothing to do with them, and may even lead to legal action. Read more
Fortnite is thawing out the Infinity Blade, arguably the game's most controversial weapon ever, for an appearance in the next season of its OG battle royale mode.
Daniel Kaluuya recently teased his upcoming Spider-Punk animated feature, revealing where he and cowriter Ajon Singh are in their development alongside Sony Pictures.
Last week, it was announced by Netflix that the company was buying Warner Bros. in a deal worth over $82 billion, but now Paramount has launched an all-cash tender offer to acquire all of Warner Bros. Discovery's outstanding shares for $30 per-share (in cash).In a statement released today, Paramount chairman David Ellison insisted the deal would provide "superior value" compared to Netflix's offer, along with "a more certain and quicker path to completion".The company is taking it directly to WBD shareholders "over concerns they were not presented most compelling and superior transaction".
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In an ideal world, none of us would have to be bound by the rope called copyright, we could produce all the media we want about our favourite things, like that Sukuna from Jujutsu Kaisend and Cinderella ship I have now likely made many of you aware of.Alas, this is not the world we live in, and because of that fact the team by the upcoming mod Team Fortress 2 Classic is having to rename it after a bit of a prompting from the original game's creators, Valve. Read more
The Assassin's Creed series' dual protagonists have sometimes been "divisive", Shadows' associate game director has said — acknowledging that the choice between nimble shinobi Naoe and hulking samurai Yasuke had been a particularly notable example of this.
With major updates done, what's your final verdict?Xbox has reminded us that Halo Infinite launched four years ago today (the full campaign version anyway), so we want to check in with the Pure Xbox community on your feelings about this particular series entry almost half a decade later, especially with the game's major updates now wrapping up.The road to Halo Infinite was a long and winding one back in the late Xbox One, early Series X|S days;
The complete list of games, movies, and TV shows nominated for the IGN Awards 2025.
For the past five years, the team at RPS have got together to pick what we consider to be the best 100 games you can play on PC.We've just finished revealing what we currently consider to be the Best PC Games of All Time and now it's your turn.Read more
They might not have committed to making any New Vegas ending the canon one, but the folks behind Amazon's Fallout TV show have been quick to decide they'd like to get started on filming a third series as soon as they can.Summer 2026, if all goes well, so the radioactive glow of the imminent second series hasn't totally faded to background levels by the time a follow-up drops.Read more
As part of its Deal of the Day, Best Buy has knocked $30 off the price of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater for PS5 and Xbox Series X, dropping it down to $39.99.
The 2024 edition hits PlayStation today.Speaking with XDA, Microsoft's Flight Sim lead dev Jorg Neumann talked about the upcoming port and how it all started.Neumann says that he suggested moving the series over to PS5 after 2020's Microsoft Flight Simulator (an idea that MS shot down), before a Sony dev came back to him a little while later.
The modders behind Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil, the massive modding project aiming to add a post-Oblivion-crisis version of the Imperial province to the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim's map, have given a lengthy tour of the latest city they've whipped into shape.As teased the other week, that city is Anvil, and it's certainly home to some quirky folks.Just in case of confusion, what makes Beyond Skyrim different to both Bethesda's Oblivion Remastered and recently delayed Oblivion remake mod Skyblivion is that it'll be introducing a fresh cast of characters and stories to familiar locations from the fourth Elder Scrolls game.
Woot’s Video Game Mega Sale features a wide variety of Switch games that have been discounted, including The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Pokémon Legends: Z-A, and more.
The Xbox Winter Demo Fest for 2025 (otherwise known as the Indie Selects Demo Fest) has now kicked off, allowing you to play over 20 games for free.It's not officially being promoted at the time of writing, but we've done some sleuthing and discovered these 20+ titles that are part of it — with 30+ set to be announced in total.With that in mind, we'll be updating this list as more demos become available over the next 24 hours.
10 years after back compat was first announced!And, once again it struck me that backwards compatibility is just so important to me when it comes to Xbox these days, particularly the fairly chunky 360 library.One of those older titles I'm going to get back to soon is Gears of War 2 following a recent playthrough of Gears Reloaded - and playing through the sequel at 4K/60FPS on modern Xbox consoles is just a much better experience than on native hardware.
Paramount Skydance has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, in a dramatic new effort to block Netflix from buying the company.
The last big showcase of the year.Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards always provides a nice opportunity for publishers and developers to show off what's coming next, alongside giving the games and the talent behind them their due praise of course.With that being said, here's exactly when The Game Awards 2025 goes down - and some of what we can expect to see from this year's event.

The Golden Globe nominations for 2026 were announced today as part of a live presentation. Here's the list in full.
Update: The OG Yakuza 0 is disappearing as well.As the final month of 2025 draws closer, it's time to take a quick look at what's being removed from the Xbox Store before the year is out, with six games currently set to be delisted in December 2025.Four of these are from publisher Outright Games, although only the Steam versions are confirmed to be getting delisted at the time of writing.
As we get closer and closer to the voting for Pure Xbox's Game of the Year 2025 (look out for it this Saturday!), we've got more "Best Of" roundups to highlight from across the internet, with this latest one coming from GamesRadar.Those folks have picked out their top 25 games of the year, with four Xbox first-party titles included in the mix.The highest placed one is Indiana Jones and the Great Circle at #5, which is only here because it missed the cut-off for 2024's version of their list.
The team behind Amazon's hit Fallout TV show are gearing up to film Season 3 "next summer," with the hope that there won't be a huge gap between the end of Season 2 and what's next.
GameStop says it accepted more than 80,000 items during this weekend's 'Trade Anything Day' event — and shared images with IGN of the weirdest items it accepted, including a bobcat, a goose, and a physical Netflix disc for the Nintendo Wii.
James Gunn has announced that Supergirl will get its debut trailer this week, while offering a tease of what’s to come.
Only feed The Maw using a standard issue six foot news pole.All teeth cleaning must be performed by a qualified animal dentist with a certificate in eldritch care.We believe he will climb out of the creature's gullet in time to cover The Game Awards on Thursday.
Well, the team fixed the issue for lots of players pretty quickly, but now a week later, some owners are still not getting their free upgrades.These responses come from multiple regions as well, as fans voice their frustrations over still not being able to access the Xbox Series X|S version at no extra cost;as promised by Rockstar.
Shenmue developer Ys Net has threatened legal action over a widely-circulated video designed to look like leaked footage of Shenmue 4.
In 2012, the Ninja Gaiden series went dormant and other developers took up the precise action crown that Tecmo had once forged.Aside from a forgettable 2014 spinoff dubbed Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z, fans were starved and left wondering what a modern Ninja Gaiden would resemble.This year, at last, we found out.
Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley has publicly stated that the TV series will not feature a crossover with Predator, ruling out an appearance from the Yautja in Season 2 and beyond.
Also says it's going to be a "challenging" game to make.Back in September, Kojima & co. finally showcased a gameplay teaser for OD — their upcoming Xbox title — and despite the trailer being typically cryptic, the legendary game maker says that it was "full of hints" as to how the game will actually play.Speaking with anaweb and translated by Automaton, Kojima talked a little bit about how OD is "changing the service model from the ground up" and that while this approach will be "challenging", the recent reveal trailer is already "full of hints" as to what the team is going for.
Harada's opted to step away as the fighting series turns 30, though he does have one more guest appearance at the Tekken World Tour finals lined up early next year.He's also released an hour-long DJ mix on Soundcloud to commemorate the occasion, making up for the fact he never got around to DJing live at a Tekken tournament.Read more
Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding developer Hideo Kojima says his upcoming horror game, OD, is "challenging" to develop because, unlike his prior games, this one required a change in how he makes games "from the ground up."
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 has secured a box office win despite a critical mauling that sees one of the biggest Rotten Tomatoes critic-audience score divides ever.
Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp has been given a custom piece of artwork showing his fan-favorite character Captain Jack Sparrow in the style of One Piece, drawn by the anime's creator Eiichiro Oda.
Struggled in the UK too.There's been an unfortunate narrative doing the rounds on social media this weekend about Xbox consoles, and it's all to do with some new Black Friday 2025 data that suggests the Series X and Series S sold poorly during BF week.Specifically, Mat Piscatella of the analysis group "Circana" took to Bluesky on Sunday to share how the PlayStation 5 dominated Black Friday week with 47% of gaming hardware sales in the US, followed by the Switch 2 at 24% and the little-known NEX Playground at 14%.
Ah, it's as I suspected, you've eaten the original Hades!You were only hungry, and the modders controlling your great maw were keen to see how Melinoë would cope with taking on the roguelike run through the underworld which Zagreus blazes through in the first game.Read more
A GameStop listing for Resident Evil Requiem has stated that the game's Deluxe Edition will include costumes for a shock second character — and no, it's not who you might think.
Katsuhiro Harada has announced his departure from Bandai Namco having worked on the Tekken series for 30 years.
“The Black Spot” features some of the best performances of the season, and takes off flying with a stellar, Pennywise-focused prologue. Though the Augery is intense as hell, the aftermath and laughable motives of the military leave Welcome to Derry’s penultimate episode feeling like it’s running out of steam as it goes along.
There is real temptation across every platform today and it's time to make out like a bandit before the bargains get gone.
The actor breaks down some new info from the hit Prime Video show.
Available until late December or while stocks last.Xbox has officially reduced its price by $100 in the US until December 20th, although only at certain retailers.This brings the price of the standard ROG Xbox Ally down from $599 to $499 USD (or actually slightly lower in some cases) in time for Christmas, although keep in mind that supplies are limited and may not last until that Dec. 20 date.
Paul Giamatti, who plays Star Trek’s latest villain Nus Braka on the upcoming Starfleet Academy, just proved his Trek fandom to us.
Today marks the sad and glorious return of Booked for the Week, our reliably irregular Sunday column in which games people talk about books.It’s sad because the original creator of this column, arch word baron Nic Reuben, is no longer full time at RPS.It’s glorious because this is one of the best columns I’ve ever read, and I’m delighted Nic has given permission to keep it rolling.
Today’s advent calendar hails, in both setting and make, from the RPS homeland of the United Kingdom.Which means, like most of RPS, it’ll probably spend Christmas predominantly unconscious, driven into a coma by a combination of tiredness, pigs in blankets overreach, and acute exposure to King Charles.It’s Atomfall!
Sundays are for realising that he's coming.That, in a way, he's already here.Adrian Edmondson?
The Boys Season 5 finally has a release date as well as the long-awaited teaser trailer for the fifth and final season.
Scream and Five Nights at Freddy's star Matthew Lillard has admitted it "it f***ing sucks" to be on the receiving end of an insult from Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill director Quentin Tarantino.
A super challenging one-button rhythm game with great music and a moving story.
The eternal problem with online shooters of any flavour that has some variation on a levelling system, is that eventually you run out of room, and can't progress any more.That's why so many of them essentially allow you to reset your levels, or to prestige as it's often colloquially known.Arc Raiders is one such game that will feature such a system, and in a new blog post, developer Embark have outlined what you get when you prestige.
Netflix has sent subscribers an email of reassurance following the news of its $82.7 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros., amid concern over potential price rises.
That's why I love a fishing minigame.It is a test of patience that you cannot win by brute forcing anything, the fish must come to you, and you must wait for the right time.About Fishing, the next release from Arctic Eggs developer The Water Museum, does ask for your patience… as well as for your willingness to embark into strange, murky waters.
CCXP in Brazil has grown into a significant event that showcases some of the most exciting news and moments in the entertainment industry. As CCXP 2025 approaches, we’re thrilled to bring you all the must-see reveals in one convenient place.
Percy Jackson: Siege of Monsters will allow players to relive major moments from the novels and second season of the Disney+ series.
Hulu's second season of Paradise now has a release date and a first-look teaser trailer.
This weekend at the CCXP convention in Brazil, Disney+ showed off new footage from their Marvel shows Wonder Man and Daredevil: Born Again, including a first look at Matthew Lillard's villain and the return of Krysten Ritter's Jessica Jones.
A new trailer for the next Path of Exile 2 update, The Last of the Druids, was shared earlier this week, showing off all the cool things you can do in it!And with that trailer also came a release date for the update. Read more
Imagine a second, alternate version of our world.Ah, there it is - Slay the Spire 2 is not a game that even remotely exists.As it turns out, this world, our world, where the roguelike called Slay the Spire 2 does, or rather will, exist, is only the world we exist in thanks to the flip of a coin.
I can see it now… in the near future, the review embargo for Suda51's next game Romeo is a Dead Man, and as far as the eye can see the digital realm is scorched with 7/10s.However, as I said, this vision I have is in the near future, because the hyper-violent action game now has a release date. Read more
Our latest day one Game Pass release has been out for a few days now in the form of sci-fi horror game Routine, after what was a rather lengthy development period for the Lunar Software title.We introduced this one as an Xbox Game Pass title back in 2022, before it again went dark for three years prior to making a reappearance this past summer.Thankfully, its Game Pass nature survived those three years, and the game is now live for PC and Ultimate subscribers.
What's leaving Xbox Game Pass in January 2026?Well, Microsoft hasn't confirmed anything just yet, but based on some games that were added to the service this time last year, we can at least make a few predictions ahead of time.We know that a lot of Xbox users want more advance notice of games leaving Xbox Game Pass, but Microsoft usually gives us around two weeks right now - and don't forget, publishers sometimes secure late deals with Microsoft to keep their games on Game Pass, even after they've been announced to be leaving!
Including five Game Pass titles!Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for December 8-12!Even though it's getting close to Christmas, there's still a lot to talk about in terms of new releases right now, with the likes of Terminator 2D: No Fate, Thank Goodness You're Here!, three new Yakuza re-releases and five Xbox Game Pass titles all arriving over the next few days!
Kicking back with some Marvel Cosmic Invasion?We've seen some fairly steady Xbox activity this past week as we approach our first December weekend - with plenty to play over the next few days such as Marvel Cosmic Invasion, Octopath Traveler 0, Routine and more on the platform.Here's what we're playing this weekend:Read the full article on purexbox.com
Part turn-based RPG, part-survival horror, with a sprinkling of metroidvania goodness, Look Outside was always going to be my jam.But where it sank its grotty little hooks into me was how gleefully punishing it was.My first playthrough quickly became a cacophony of mistakes, but each one moulded my adventure in ways I never expected.
After the huge success of the Amazon Fallout TV show, some have wondered whether The Elder Scrolls, Bethesda’s fantasy video game franchise, might be next in line for an adaptation. But what does Bethesda boss Todd Howard think?
The Lord of the Rings movies are coming back to theaters next year to celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Fellowship of the Ring — but be prepared to strap yourself in for the long haul, as they’re all the Extended Editions.
I burst from the covers, ran weeping to my PC (this happens most mornings, to be fair) and discovered that I had forgotten to finish the intro for our latest What Are We All Playing This Weekend article.So, what are you all playing this weekend?Read more
Timothée Chalamet visited CCXP in Brazil today to promote Marty Supreme, his new movie, and while he was there he name-dropped some of the actors who inspired him to pursue his craft.
The cast of Fallout Season 2 hit CCXP today, where they revealed a clip from an upcoming episode that includes Novac and Dinky the T-Rex from the games.
The last sale of the year on IGN's best rated gaming chairs.
Battlefield Studios has published the Battlefield 6 update 1.1.3.0 patch notes ahead of next week’s Winter Offensive update.
Direct from the showroom floor of CCXP 2025 in Brazil, we've got a close-up look at Supergirl's costume from the 2026 DC movie.
Earlier this year, Disney announced it would bring the original Star Wars film, later dubbed Episode IV: A New Hope, back to theaters for the film's 50th anniversary in 2027. But it looks like we'll be seeing it a little earlier than we originally thought, on February 19, 2027.
Versatile tool for all of your precision electronics work.
No better time to upgrade your PC for the next generation of games.
Superhero blockbuster and MCU Infinity Saga bookend Avengers: Endgame will return to theaters for the first time since 2019 next year.
It’s after 5pm on a Friday, but no force on this Earth can stop me hurrying back to my desk to report on a large financial transaction. Also, we should have written this up earlier, but we were busy deciding which are the objectively correct 100 best PC games. I’m not… sure we put any Warn...
Following the "Mumbomania" project in Dreams for PS5.Alright, so you probably saw the news about this "Banjo-Kazooie: Mumbomania" project that was cross-posted to Pure Xbox by our friends at Push Square yesterday - a game made in Dreams for PS5 that's gone viral this week.The g...
After a rough past decade, here's why the very last thing DC needs right now is for Netflix to swoop in and make more changes.
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair review: Quentin Tarantino’s two-parter finally gets the single epic release it deserves. It is the most fun four-and-a-half hours you’ll spend at the movies this year.
How's your luck?Since the release of the ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X a couple of months ago, it's been hard to find any kind of discounts or giveaways for the two devices, but we've just come across something via the Bloodlines 2 team on social media.As you can see below, they're giving away a free ROG Xbox Ally X, which is pretty crazy considering how expensive (£799.9...
Significant story spoilers for Horses follow. Also, here is some possibly appropriate music. Read more
The Humble Choice December lineup is live, featuring eight games including Nine Sols, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, Streets of Rage 4, and more.
Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren has called on the Justice Department to examine Netflix's $82.7 billion buyout of Warner Bros., and branded the deal as "like an anti-monopoly nightmare."
The earliest two of 2026 so far.We've been kind of waiting for Xbox to give us some release dates for early 2026 when it comes to Xbox Game Pass — until this week, we only had two of them — and now we've finally got our first couple of next month.These two games are MIO: Memories in Orbit, which was revealed at the PC Gaming Show...
Jessica Alba got real about her least favorite scene to shoot as Sue Storm in the 2005 film Fantastic Four 20 years later — a “humiliating” one where her character reappeared completely naked over a bridge.
He's back. Tim Cain, co-creator of the original Interplay Fallouts and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines programmer has emerged from semi-retirement, returning to Obsidian to work on a game he can't t...
"Don’t bother guessing, you’re not going to guess right.".In a new update on their personal YouTube channel, long-time game developer and Fallout creator Tim Cain has announced that they've returned to Obsidian Entertainment; the Xbox studio responsible for Avowed, Fallout N...
The studio behind the Postal franchise just announced that it will be publishing a brand new Postal game, to be developed by Goonswarm Games. Unfortunately, it even more recently announced it would be cancelling said game, due to accusations that Goonswarm had used generative AI in its development.
The studio behind the Postal franchise just announced that it will be publishing a brand new Postal game, to be developed by Goonswarm Games. Unfortunately, it even more recently announced it would be cancelling said game, due to accusations that Goonswarm had used generative AI in its development.
GTA fans finally have their first look at Grand Theft Auto 5 character Michael in the Grand Theft Auto universe since the game launched back in 2013, as part of a GTA Online update that settles any lingering canon ending questions.
Netflix's $85.2 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. will unlock a vast vault of content — which, according to a new report, the streaming service is eyeing up as a potential "AI trove."
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man has a theatrical release date as well as a release date on Netflix.
"This is a nice neighborhood!".We don't often talk about GTA Online updates these days at Pure Xbox, but this one's extra special! A Safehouse in the Hills in the name of the new update that's coming on December 10th, and it features a very familiar face.Yes, GTA 5's Michael De Santa — one of the main three characters in the single-player campaign — is ...
Noah Schnapp, one of the stars of the beloved Netflix hit Stranger Things, seemingly accidentally revealed two crucial spoilers during a recent episode of the Hot Ones YouTube show, which were promptly edited out.
Postal developers Running With Scissors have revealed... and now cancelled Postal: Bullet Paradise, a spin-off shooter created by Goonswarm Studios. It seems Bullet Paradise may have featured some AI-generated material, which has prompted an evidently massive backlash among the Postal faithful in the literal two whole days since the project's announcement. Gosh.
Changing the game.After months of waiting since its initial announcement, third-person mode is now live in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - and the folks over at IGN have shared some extended gameplay of the new mode which you can take a look at above.&...
Our predictions for what new game reveals and announcements we might see on December 11 at The Game Awards 2025.
Tim Cain, one of the creators of the original Fallout video game, has rejoined Xbox studio Obsidian Entertainment to work on a mystery project.
"Lots of former 343 devs on this".Apparently, something is happening over in Nintendo land this week. There's some kind of long-awaited sequel that's been in the works for 18 years? "Metroid"..."Prime"... they call it? That's a new one to us!Seriously though, the new release of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond actually has a connection to Xbox, and specifically the Halo series. When the reviews and latest gameplay footage started doing the rounds this we...
As Netflix confirms plans to buy Warner Bros. for $82.7 billion, the streaming service has said it expects shorter theatrical runs for movies in future "to meet the audience where they are, quicker."
Seemingly just the film & streaming portion of WB, too.In an announcement that's sending shockwaves throughout the entertainment world, streaming giant Netflix has announced its intentions to buy Warner Bros. - for a whopping $72 billion (or $82.7 billion as a "total enterprise value").Going off Netflix's statement on this, the move doesn't mention Warner Bro...
Introducing Silent Road, a first-person psychological horror game where you play a taxi driver working the night shift in a forested region of Japan known for an unusually high suicide rate and sights of supernatural phenomena. The further you get into the night, the scarier it gets.
Skyblivion, the massive modding project reinterpreting The Elder Scrolls 4 via Skyrim's engine, had its release officially
The game's first major update!Since Keeper released back in October we've not really heard much from its developer Double Fine, but to close out the year, the team is here this week with a brand-new update for the Xbox title.Live now on Xbox, PC and Game Pass, Keeper's December update introduces Noir Mode for that black-and-white look, High Contrast Mode for increased accessibility and Ultrawide s...
Here's a sneak peek.We've got a new Xbox Demo Fest taking place next week! This is the annual winter version of the event, which is officially known as the "Indie Selects Demo Fest" - featuring over 30 games that are free to try from December 9th.We'll obviously have a full roundup of all the demos for you ASAP, but they're being kept under wraps for now:Read the
Netflix has confirmed it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO, and HBO Max, in a deal worth $82.7 billion.
Fallout TV series star Walton Goggins has said he's not played the franchise's video games and is "not interested" in doing so — because it would upset his method for playing The Ghoul.
Crack open Kaizen like a disposable camera, and you'll find the parts inside are very similar to a subgenre of puzzle game called Sokoban.These sliding puzzles in which you push objects around a space appear throughout gaming.Whenever you're shoving a great stone block in Tomb Raider, you owe a small salute to Sokoban's creator Hiroyuki Imabayashi.
Reeks of knock-off Resident Evil territory, I thought.And, odd, considering I was locking eyes with hellspawn rather than shuffling corpses.Then I got into my first fight.
"This is the most complex game I've ever worked on".Clockwork Revolution has a bit of hype behind it within the Xbox fanbase - heck, even boss Phil Spencer sounds pretty excited about what inXile is cooking up. And, while info on the title remains scarce, the t...
Nintendo fans are unhappy about a $30 Metroid Prime 4: Beyond amiibo figurine that lets you turn on your motorbike's radio.
It's all about cloud streaming.Back in the middle of 2023, Microsoft was still in a difficult position in regards to acquiring Activision Blizzard. The UK Competition and Markets Authority had made it clear that changes needed to be made before they'd approve the deal going through, and one of those changes ended up being a surprise agreement with Ubisoft.As part of the agreement,
Amazon has revealed fresh details about the upcoming Prime Video Spider-Man spinoff series, Spider-Noir, and released new posters for the show.
If you're a fan of gruff blokes punching goons and putting the pedal to the metal in muscle cars, Samson looks like it'll be up your alley. It's the debut game of Liquid Swords, the Swedish studio founded by former Just Cause and Mad Max dev...
Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who played Shang Tsung in the original Mortal Kombat movie as well as video game Mortal Kombat 11, has died aged 75.
As Nintendo finally looks set to acknowledge a certain secret character's presence in Donkey Kong: Bananza, fans are taking the moment as further evidence of upcoming, unannounced Mario Kart World DLC.
Netflix is reportedly just days away from buying Harry Potter, DC Universe, and HBO Max owner Warner Bros., after entering exclusive deal talks for the company’s studio and streaming assets.
Review: Pluribus Episode 6, “HDP,” hits a season high with more surprises and world-building, and a great cameo appearance for good measure.
Should you start building a Disney collection?
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms star Peter Claffey, who plays Ser Duncan the Tall, aka Dunk, just revealed what George R. R. Martin's favorite Game of Thrones story is.
Peter Claffey explained how Ser Duncan the Tall and Brienne of Tarth share both lineage and common traits.
World of Warcraft's housing feature launched this week for everyone who purchased the upcoming Midnight expansion early. And Horde players in particular are really struggling to contend with one major issue: their house exteriors are ugly.
Over 15 of them!We're not done with showcases in 2025 yet! The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted 2025 showcase has just concluded this evening, and it included a few Xbox reveals as part of the event.Everything that featured an Xbox logo can be found down below, which includes some brand-new announcements for the likes of Starshi...
Matches Black Friday pricing, but it will probably expire soon.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 has confirmed the addition of something no video game has ever had before: a playable Primarch.
There's a new game from Fullbright on the way, revealed tonight at the PC Gaming Show, called Springs, Eternal. The studio's obviously best known for narrative focused games like Gone Home and Tacoma, and Springs, Eternal unsurprisingly looks like more of that, albeit ...
"PRAISE NEATH", cry the developers of Rogue Legacy. "What's Neath?", I ask politely. It's their new game, they say, a roguelike RPG with some tactical combat about an upside-down tower constantly shifting because a god can't make up his mind. It's out next year, they add, before their fingers lose grip on the ceiling and they crash ...
Enter Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4, with yet another trailer showing off Warhammery folks being slapped, smashed, and many other plosives. This one introduces the Dark Angels, who'll be a playable Space Marine faction alongside the Blood Ravens. It also teases letting you into the battleboot...
There are two gods in Dreamfall's third-person survival story Hello Sunshine. One is the enormous robot who saves your life in the game's first and only cutscene - a flaking, orange-hooped juggernaut who promptly turns away from you and trudges eastward, its back emblazoned with a command to "follow". The other god is the sun. <...
Gregorios Kythreotis, the creative director of sci-fi hoverbike adventure Sable, has a new thing. He's heading up a fresh studio dubbed Eteo, who'll be aiming to release their first game in 2027. Until then, the studio plan to start putting out a newsletter called Archetypes, which'll debut in January and ...
Bask in the sun… and risk getting the meanest sunburn of your life. Hello Sunshine is an impressive step up from the usual post-apocalypse survival RPG formula, playing with some clever ideas around scorching sunlight, blissful shade, and the cycle of day and night.
Fullbright has announced its next game will be a lo-fi narrative experience with branching dialogue named Springs, Eternal, as the company's founder Steve Gaynor continues on as a solo developer.
IGN interviews Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 developer King Art Games to find out everything you need to know about playable Primarch, Lion El'Jonson.
Today, 1047 Games revealed that Splitgate 2 is relaunching as Splitgate: Arena Reloaded on December 17, 2025. It will be available as a free-to-play game across PC, Xbox, and PlayStation.
Looking for a gift for the adult LEGO builder in your life? Look no further – we've gathered all the best sets for adults from 2025 all in one place.
Series S is cutback, but "retains enough of its character".Silent Hill 2 finally came to Xbox last month after a year-long wait, and its release was quickly followed up with some brief Xbox Series X|S comparisons. Now though, the tech experts over at
If you were Senior Floor Manager of Earth, and a weird planet innocently appeared on the fringe of our solar system, what would you do? I would probably not zip out there and plant a factory on that planet, in much the same way that I wouldn’t high-five a bear-shaped shadow on the edge of a campsite. But I am not the modder behind beloved
Crank up the pounding metal riffs and make sure you're covered in spikes. Carmageddon: Rogue Shift, a roguelite-infused take on the old school automotive murder-battler from Redout devs 34BigThings, has just been revealed and is set to smash onto the scene ...
So far this Star Wars-flavored expansion is a bit cringey, but works surprisingly well.
The Z95A uses the same panel as LG's highest-end Gallery Series TV.
"We’re proud to welcome Xbox as the title sponsor".It's been announced today that Xbox has joined forces with ESPN to become the title sponsor of December 18th's college football bowl game between Missouri State and Arkansas State.The entire event is getting some major Xbox branding as a result, with the logo being a big Xbox controller as seen above, and it's all going to be broadcast on ESPN2 from 9pm ET on Thursday the 18th.Read the
The holiday season is a time where we typically expect to see a serious surge in video game and console sales. Normally, that means lots of PlayStations, Switches, and Xboxes. But recently, there's another gaming system that's giving the other console offerings a run for their sales. Have you heard of...the NEX Playground?
"The reality we now face is stark".Earlier this year, we highlighted the then-upcoming launch of Wreckreation - an open world driving and building game made by Three Fields Entertainment, which itself is made up of various former Burnout and Need for Speed developers.Unfortunately, the release seems to have gone terribl...
This price beats out the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals.
Charges your Switch even while you're playing.
Despite some randomness and uneven difficulty, Warhammer Quest: Darkwater is fast and approachable, with amazing miniatures, meaningful choices, and plenty of exciting moments.
Black Friday is over, but the sales continue!As if Xbox hadn't given us enough deals to take advantage of over the past few weeks via Black Friday 2025, we've now got another four huge new sales that have just begun on the Xbox Store - and most are lasting for two weeks.Specifically, these are the Beyond Black Friday Sale (which is DLC-focused), the Games to Gift Sale, a Publisher Spotlight Series Sale and an
The Corsair Sabre V2 Pro makes plenty of compromises to keep slim, including a smaller battery and a few flimsy parts – but it's a responsive, comfortable, and super lightweight mouse.
Review: Five Nights at Freddy's 2 gives sequels, video game adaptations, and gateway horror movies a bad name.
Total War: Medieval 3 is in early pre-production, Creative Assembly have revealed during Total War's 25th anniversary showcase, with release still years away. It's to be the "rebirth of historical Total War", and CA are unveiling it earlier than they've ever announced a Total War game before, so tha...
Fortnite fans believe developer Epic Games has indeed relaxed its rules around the depiction of male nudity, as the game's first fully detailed areola have now been spotted.
New free trials now live on Xbox!Xbox Free Play Days is here for the next few days! We've got six games playable as part of the program this week - with one of those in Destiny 2 bringing loads of premium expansions to the program as well.Here's your full Free Play Days rundown this week:Read the
Three Fields Entertainment, developers of Burnout with sky roads racer Wreckreation, have announced that their entire team have been put on notice of redundancy. According to the announcement from CEO and former Criterion studio director Fiona Sperry, this comes as Three Fields...
Developer Bad Robot Games signs deal with Sony.Bad Robot Games has today announced a new "four-player co-operative shooter" being led by Left 4 Dead's original creator Mike Booth - but there's a chance this attempt to rekindle that L4D flame may not see the light of day on Xbox.Although this development studio has been working away for a number of years now, it's today announced this ne...
Creative Assembly’s Total War 25th anniversary showcase featured a number of major announcements in the strategy series, including a brand new game, a significant update to an existing game, and the tease of a new game announcement at The Game Awards. Here's everything announced, and all the trailers.
Watch a new High on Life 2 boss battle reveal, showing off a fight against Kreg Button, a pirate-themed bounty hunter, as our IGN First month of exclusive coverage continues.
If you can make use of cutting-edge PCIe 5 performance, the Samsung 9100 Pro will deliver it in spades, but its performance may not be as uniform as we’d like.
Creative Assembly has announced Total War: Medieval 3, the next mainline game in its strategy series.
Amazon has the best Switch 2 deal right now, with the Mario Kart World bundle for Nintendo's console discounted.
It looks as though the live-action Tomb Raider Amazon series, which will star Game of Thrones alum Sophie Turner, will revamp the beloved video game franchise, so get ready for an all-new Lara Croft.
The Fallout: New Vegas: 15th Anniversary Bundle for PC is now available to preorder from Amazon for $154.99. It's set to be released next year on June 30.
The Season 01 patch notes reveal all.With Season 01's launch arriving today for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, developer Treyarch has dropped the new season's
Metroid Prime actor confirms identity of mysterious cut intro voice, and it isn't who you think.
It's an Xbox console exclusive at launch too.We've been talking for a very long time here at Pure Xbox about Replaced — a narrative-driven 2.5D platformer that we've been eager to play for years — and now it's finally got a release date of March 12th, 2026!For those who haven't heard of it before, Replaced will see you attempt to "expose the sinister secrets of ...
It looks like comedian and action star Tig Notaro has officially decided what project she wants to do next with Batman v. Superman director Zack Snyder — and it’s an action movie where “everyone’s a hot lesbian.”
Mattson Tomlin, co-writer of The Batman 2 alongside director Matt Reeves, has defended actor Paul Dano following high-profile criticism from Quentin Tarantino.
Part of the PlayStation China Hero Project.A few hours ago, we were treated to the reveal of a new open world RPG from Pathea Games (My Time At Sandrock, Let's School) called The God Slayer, and it's got a particularly interesting connection to the fol...
A look at the long line of bad, and occasionally good, Terminator tie-ins.
Robert Downey Jr. has discussed his Marvel co-star Gwyneth Paltrow's difficulty keeping track of the MCU's many characters — including a moment when she forgot Peter Parker's real-life identity. (It's Tom Holland.)
Avowed & Grounded 2 set for big 2026 updates.Obsidian is back again with another update on one of its 2025 titles, as the team prepares even more content for 2026. This time, Grounded 2's December patch has now arrived for Xbox, PC and
PlayStation will publish a new four-player co-operative shooter directed by former Left 4 Dead designer Mike Booth, which will be the first internally-developed game released by J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Games studio.
"Seeking a permit to expand production in Vietnam".As the Xbox Series X|S generation continues and another one is on the horizon, it's being reported this week that a subsidiary of manufacturing company Foxconn is planning to expand its Xbox production over in Vietnam.This report comes from Reuters, which mentions that Fushan Tec...
The creators of the Fallout TV show have confirmed Season 2 avoids making any New Vegas ending canon by taking what they call "the fog of war approach."
Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin is a surprise addition to the Fallout Season 2 cast, but it turns out he was big into Fallout lore before he got the call — and everything he knows about the video game franchise comes from watching YouTube videos.
Skybound has revealed a new Creepshow anthology series dubbed Super Creepshow, one that adds a dose of superhero fun to the iconic horror franchise.
"Sorry to disappoint...".Last month, Ubisoft confirmed that its Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake was set to launch before April 2026, which led to rumours of the game potentially showing up at The Game Awards next week ahead of a repo...
Greedfall 2: The Dying World takes cues from the early-2000s era of roleplaying games. It's more like Dragon Age: Origins or Knights of the Old Republic than anything released recently, for better and for worse. I distinctly got the feeling that Greedfall 2 is specifically harkening back to this era of games for a reason: This is a style of game that the developers at Spiders want to emulate and keep alive because they prefer it—at least for their own games. We took it for one last test drive ah...
Traitors are everywhere in Arc Raiders, so stay safe from betrayal by looking out for these seven signs.
"Here's an Xbox Gift Card on us!".Anyone fancy a free Xbox gift card for the holidays?! Well, we've spotted Xbox giving these away to some lucky users for the month of December, and they're being received across console, PC and even Xbox Cloud Gaming.At first glance this does seem to be quite rare, although there are multiple examples online of people who have received theirs already. Here's some of the proof we've come across so far:Read the
Xbox might not be making a new Banjo-Kazooie, but there's a brand new game featuring everyone's favorite bird and bear available now via Dreams on PlayStation 4 and PS5.
Revived Minecrafty survivabuilder Hytale got a fresh early access release date of January 1...
The ongoing chaos in RAM production, with mass shortages jacking up street prices to are-you-joking levels, now has a major manufacturer casualty.
Hold up all your fingers. Count them from right to left. When you get to four, stop. That is today's Advent calender number. You will not need the rest of your fingers. Please dispose of them as you see fit. What game could prompt such a sinister overture? It can only be... Eclipsium!
Rolling out now in beta form.For ages now, we've been waiting on Xbox to add a version of the Xbox / Microsoft Store to the Android and iOS apps, as until now it's been impossible to actually buy anything on there - you've only been able to remote install games.However, the Xbox Store has officially begin rolling out on the Xbox mobile beta app as of today, and it seems to be pretty much the same thing we get on console, containing the same kinds of categories a...
From a discount on console bundles to Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, here's everything coming to Nintendo Switch 2 in December 2025.
Duke it out as Aang or Zuko, and learn to play Magic: The Gathering at the same time with this Beginner Box deal.
Access to Roblox has been blocked in Russia, with federal censorship and media oversight agency Roskomnadzor accusing the platform of distributing content "justifying terrorism" and spreading "LGBT propaganda". According to Russian media reports, the state body said Roblox has become rife with content that can "negatively impact the spiritual ...
Including a brand-new day one launch!Welcome to your latest Xbox Game Pass roundup! Today, we've got three games coming to the service; one that's brand-new to Ultimate subscribers and two that are moving over to the Premium tier.So, we'll gather up these new XGP additions for December 4th down below:Read the
Access to Roblox has been banned in Russia, as the country's authorities have deemed it a host of "LGBT propaganda."
Hi-Fi Rush is ditching its Denuvo anti-tamper software as part of developers' Tango Gameworks transition to working under new owners Krafton. A fresh patch has been released swapping logos to reflect that switch...
I'll forgive you if you've not clocked The God Slayer. While it's always been vaguely curious in an Inside Baseball sort of way, its action-RPGness being a stark departure for My Time at Sandrock/My Time at Portia lifesim devs Pathea Games,...
Say goodbye to buying compressed air canisters in bulk.
As I said yesterday, Black Friday is cactus, Cyber Monday has come and gone, and yet the shelves are still groaning under the weight of tasty discounts.
There are two Brendan Greene's (or PlayerUnknown's, however you prefer to refer to the game dev). There is the Brendan Greene who wants to listen to the feedback offered up by those partaking in the early access period of his current game, Prologue: Go Wayback. And there is the Brendan Greene who doesn't, ...
Horror visionaries James Wan and Jason Blum are working with Paramount Pictures to summon a new Paranormal Activity movie into theaters.
I think games are generally quite bad at acknowledging that they are things that are made by people. These people tend to have conversations about ideas, which turn into implementing those ideas, and sometimes these ideas are abandoned. We've all enjoyed a deleted scene in the extras of a DVD, yet the cutting room floor does not seem to be a thing for most games, at least not publicly. Which is ...
Bose's best headphone is $20 cheaper now than on Black Friday.
Valve’s gaming PC is behind on specs and maybe price, too – but a big enough Steam library could make it the best choice.
The Series S version wins out.Just like September's interesting analysis of Star Wars Outlaws on Switch 2 and Series S, Digital Foundry returns with a fresh look at another Ubisoft title that's been ported over to the Nintendo system this week - and once again, this one uses the Xbox Series S version ...
Truth be told, I have never played a Castlevania game. Just haven't gotten round to one of 'em yet! Symphony of the Night is probably more my speed over the original games, but I do see their importance too of course. However, what I have played, at least a little bit of, is a game that is very derivative of OG platform...
Powerful gaming laptop with excellent build quality and a gorgeous OLED display.
Here's the full list.We recently mentioned how three Xbox first-party games had made the cut in the AP's top 10 releases of 2025, and now we've got another list from Rolling Stone — a top 25 of 2025 roundup — that inclu...
The massive Comic Con in Brazil will feature Timothée Chalamet, The Boys, IT: Welcome to Derry, and more.
This GPU is an excellent choice for 1080p and 1440p gaming.
EA and Battlefield Studios are preparing Battlefield 6 players for Season 1: Winter Offensive with a community letter with a list of changes set to be introduced with the upcoming 1.1.3.0 update.
Stranger Things is taking over as the show approaches its series finale — and now even Google is getting in on the fun by adding an Easter egg to its search engine.
Back in October, three weeks out from its release date, Yacht Club Games' first completely new game since the original Shovel Knight, Mina the Hollower, was
It's the next free update for Total War: Warhammer 3, which launches tomorrow alongside the Tides of Torment DLC.The strategy barons of Creative Assembly have just put up a blog post, and frankly, it's a mess.The Chaos demons of Salaanesh have mastered the foxtrot.
Wicked: For Good's 4K is now available to preorder alongside an Amazon-exclusive giftset, a two-film collection, and a Walmart-exclusive steelbook.
"PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted Powered by Xbox Game Pass".We're still a week away from the last major gaming showcase of 2025 in the form of The Game Awards, but this Thursday's PC Gaming Show sounds well worth watching - even from an Xbox perspective.The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted showcase is said to be "powered by Xbox G...
Skyblivion, the massive mod remake of Oblivion in Skyrim's engine, won't be making its previously announced 2025 release goal, the team behind it have confirmed. Instead, the mod'll be ...
The highly-acclaimed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 just added yet another accolade to its name — as it's now the biggest new third-party game launch on Xbox Game Pass in 2025.
41GB in size on Xbox.A couple of months ago, Bethesda announced that the largest update in years for Fallout 76 would be dropping in December 2025, and that update is now officially available across all platforms as of last night.The update is called "Burning Springs", and it introduces a whole bunch of new content to
Amazon and Best Buy still have a bunch of LEGO sets on sale for up to 40% off, including Animal Crossing, Star Wars, Wednesday, and more.
Yep, we've still got one massive sale to come!The Xbox Black Friday Sale might be almost over for another year, but we've still got one massive sale to come before the month is finished - the Xbox Countdown Sale 2025! This is typically one of the biggest sales of the year for Xbox, with potentially over 1000 games set to be discounted during late December and a bit of early January.The official date of the sale hasn't been announced at the time of writing, but i...
Briana White, the actress who portrays Aerith in Final Fantasy 7, has called on fans to stop tagging voice artists in spicy material featuring their characters.
Bloody waiters. Asking you what you'd like to eat after you waltz into the restaurant at which they're employed. The absolute cheek of it. Why can't they just ingest my money and spit a vaguely edible chocolate bar out of their belly button? This is the central philosophy which serves as the "touchstone" of BioShock c...
Fans seem to be getting very excited to watch the series finale of Stranger Things in theaters soon — but scalpers are clearly just as excited, because they are already selling tickets to the Season 5 ender with a whopping 275% markup.
Geoff Keighley’s mysterious The Game Awards teaser statue has sparked rampant speculation about which video game announcement it relates to, but so far the internet is stumped. Here's what we know so far.
Check out our exclusive preview of Oni Press' Spirit of the Shadows, easily one of the most stylish horror comics to come along in years.
The Soulslike is dead. The age of the Souplike has begun. Indie developer Kite Line has just published Soup Rooms - a sequel of sorts to dong yarhalla's videogame concept album from 2007, in which you visit small square rooms with feverdream aesthetics and a peculiar entity in the middle. What was I doing back in 2007? Alas...
It's Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.It's been a pretty amazing year in terms of the titles that have been added to Xbox Game Pass, with multiple Game of the Year candidates having arrived on the service at launch, but one in particular has dominated the attention.That game is of course Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which has been crowned today as the biggest third-party Xbox Game P...
You can currently score $50 off a Nintendo Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle at Walmart, while stock lasts.
The CEO of Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has responded to fan concern about the choice of Justin Lin as the director of the Helldivers movie, after it emerged he leaned into not being a gamer for his pitch.
The cheapest version of Game Pass grows again!We've already talked today about the two games that have been added to Xbox Game Pass Premium, but we've also got three games joining the Xbox Game Pass Essential lineup - the cheapest version of...
Bethesda and Xbox have teamed up with Amazon and Samsung to mark the long-anticipated arrival of Season 2 of the Fallout show by streaming Season 1 for free on Samsung TV Plus.
New gameplay footage of Resident Evil Requiem has teased a glimpse at a fresh area in the game filled with classic zombies — and it all looks very Resident Evil 1.
Coming February 2026!Back in the summer, Xbox developer Obsidian reassured fans that Avowed's Fall 2025 update was still on track - but plans have since changed, and this update has now morphed into a bigger content drop set to arrive in February 2026.To mark the game's one-year anniversary next Feb., Obs...
No Man's Sky fans have claimed that an asset from the sci-fi sandbox game has been repurposed for sale in Once Human without permission — and now the boss of Hello Games has gotten involved.
Elden Ring: Nightreign update 1.03 is out now ahead of The Forsaken Hollows DLC. Check out the patch notes.
Someone finally actually Escaped from Tarkov, and now more and more players are managing it.
James Cameron has told audiences that no generative AI was used in the making of the upcoming special effects-heavy sci-fi action film, Avatar: Fire and Ash.
Elden Ring Nightreign's Forsaken Hollows expansion arrives tomorrow, December 4th. Ahead of letting folks dive into Limveld's b...
Valve’s quiet bankrolling of open-source emulation tools could make it heaps easier to play your PC games library on a humble smartphone, though it sounds like Gabe-made SteamOS phones are unlikely to be joining the company’s growing ...
"Enjoy ten minutes of exclusive new gameplay from High on Life 2".Looking through our big Xbox Game Pass in 2026 guide, basically everything has a "TBD" release date as things stand apart from two games - the PC-only MENACE and the highly-anticipated sequel
At the PlayStation Partner Awards 2025 Japan Asia held in Tokyo on December 3, Monster Hunter Wilds won the Grand Award and the User's Choice Award. In an interview held before the award ceremony, Ryozo Tsujimoto, the producer of this work, and Yuya Tokuda, the director, answered questions from local media. IGN Japan was in attendance.
To successfully deliver presents to every child on Earth within a single Christmas eve, Santa Claus would need to travel in the region of half the speed of light – enough to vaporise the flesh and disintegrate the sleighs of mere mortals. He’d therefore appreciate the sheer go-fastness of the roguelite running game that’s blasting out of door #3. It&rs...
A few weeks ago, developers Beeswax Games released a "spiritual successor" to 2019 freeware game No Players Online on Steam. If you've not played the old freeware project - still available on Itch - it's one of those haunted software jobbies that a...
Avowed won't be getting the final update devs Obsidian had planned for this year. Instead the studio have opted to save putting out the new game plus mode they'd planned for this autumn for a big update to make the RPG's first birthday in February. To...
It's sounding pretty darn good!The release schedule often dies down when it comes to big launches in the month of December, but 2025 has a few tricks still up its sleeve, including Square Enix's Octopath Tr...
Legendary voice actress Jennifer Hale has been replaced as the voice of Samus in Metroid Prime 4, the new game's credits have revealed.
The $55 billion leveraged buyout which will see Saudi Arabia, Silver Lake and Jared Kushner become the new owners of EA will reportedly lead to the Saudi Public Investment Fund owning a whopping 93.4 percent of the game publishers. That's ...
Two more titles for Premium subscribers!Welcome to your latest Xbox Game Pass roundup! Today's update focuses on Xbox Game Pass Premium, with two titles moving over to Microsoft's mid-tier service today (December 3).Here's a summary of your two new additions to Xbox Game Pass Premium:Read the
The path traveled is a long one, but worthwhile so far.
Fern "Antireal" Hook, the artist who found her own designs and graphics in Bungie's Marathon, has confirmed she has "resolved" the issue with the studio and its parent company Sony.
Grotesque and surreal 'farming simulation' Horses has been banned from the Epic Games Store on the eve of release, a couple of years after a work-in-progress version of the game was rejected by Valve. In an alleged statement to developers Santa Ragione, the Fortnite makers explain that they've found the game to be in contravention of p...
Quentin Tarantino has said There Will Be Blood could have been his favorite film of the 21st century if “weak sauce” actor Paul Dano wasn’t in it.
How's it all shaking out for you right now?It's no secret that today's Red Dead Redemption rollout hasn't exactly gone to plan, at least on Xbox. The game went live at midnight local time as was somewhat expected, but
Nintendo Switch 2 launch title Mario Kart World has just received a meaty update that finally adds custom item rules, and tweaks a long list of course layouts.
A new Warhammer 40,000 novel confirms that what's actually going on inside a black hole is still a mystery in the grim darkness of the far future — even to the Necrons.
Sony is rolling out a minor PlayStation 5 update today, December 3. Here's what it does.
I woke up this morning in that weird post–Cyber Monday haze where you assume all the good bargains have packed their bags and vanished. Turns out they have not.
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The pioneer of the extraction shooter is still compelling, but it's also saddled with plenty of issues.
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Better late than never.The new upgrade for Red Dead Redemption is out today on all platforms, and while the game is now live and playable on Xbox Series X|S, the upgrade path from the old Xbox 360 version isn't working for lots of players - and there's some confus...
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12 games to celebrate the 12th month!Welcome to the final month of the year! With that in mind, we thought we'd put together one final list of exciting indie games to look out for - 12 games to celebrate the 12th month. And to be honest, it's still hard to nail the list down!There's so much good stuff to look forward to here, including the long-awaited
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Save up to $78 on giant 24-inch Pokemon plushies at Amazon and Walmart, with premium characters now priced as low as $20.
Some people are REALLY loving it though.There's been a ton of interest in the long-awaited first-person horror shooter Routine ahead of its launch on Xbox Game Pass this Thursday (December 4th), and the first reviews have just started going live across the web this afternoon.And at first ...
Amazon appears to have removed an English dub track that featured AI voices from the anime series Banana Fish after fans spotted that there was an “AI beta” of an English dub included in the ‘Audio Languages’ option on the streamer.
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Last week, we reported that disturbing horror game Horses had been banned from Steam. Now, at the last possible minute before the game was set to release widely across other PC store fronts, Epic Games Store has also banned Horses.
PlayStation hardware architect Mark Cerny has recalled his time working at Sega in the late 1980s, a period in which he likened conditions at the company behind Sonic the Hedgehog to a "sweatshop."
Arc Raiders developers Embark have shed a bit of light on how their looter-shooter changed after shifting away from the free-to-play business model back in 2024. A...
Woot's 'Video Game Mega Sale!' features a 42% discount on a Carbon Black Xbox wireless controller and USB-C cable, droppings its price from $64.99 to $37.99.
LEGO has revealed three new Star Wars sets that are gearing up to be released on January 1: an AT-AT set, a Venator-Class Attack Cruiser, and a build of BB-8.
How's it all shaking out for you right now?It's no secret that today's Red Dead Redemption rollout hasn't exactly gone to plan, at least on Xbox. The game went live at midnight local time as was somewhat expected, but
Enjoy ten minutes of exclusive new gameplay from High on Life 2, the upcoming comedy first-person shooter sequel. This footage comes from early in the campaign in Pinkline Harbor, one of three in-game hubs you'll explore.
This unsettling horror game banned from Steam tells a harrowing story you won’t soon forget.
Seems it’s a good day to be a Helldivers 2 player: in addition to the buff-happy Into the Unjust 5.0.0 patch that launched earlier, developers A...
One of the hallmarks of Cyberpunk 2077, particularly after its Phantom Liberty update, is its dynamic police chases. But what you might not have caught onto is that when trying to avoid this massive swarm of cops, you're essentially playing a really, really sophisticated version of a very, very old arcade game: Pac-Man.
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has created a “slim” version of its explosive co-op third-person shooter that massively reduces its file size on PC.
To mark the launch of Marvel Cosmic Invasion, we rank the 10 greatest games to come out of the Marvel Universe.
"Soak up 42 pulse-pounding levels dripping with Lovecraftian atmosphere".We've got an Xbox debut 28 years in the making this week! The 1997 first-person shooter Blood, that only released on PC back in the '90s, has been remastered by Nightdive Studios and is heading to Xbox on December 4th, 2025.If you haven't come across it before, <...
The internet is thrilled that our favorite Madison Avenue men (also known as, you guessed it, Mad Men) are back on our TV screens in a big way with HBO Max bringing the new 4K transfer of the entire series to its platform — but it turns out it made a glaring visual error in doing so.
LEGO has just announced what looks to be the ultimate set for Stranger Things fans, a $300 version of The Creel House stuffed full of Easter eggs from each of the show's seasons.
Ric Roman Waugh breaks down why the new film, releasing January 30, is "Jason Statham at his best."
Netflix has confirmed the full list of cities and theater locations for fan screenings of the final episode of Stranger Things Season 5, as well as its run time.
One of the first "moving pictures" ever created is a moving picture of a horse. In the late 1870s, the photographer Eadweard Muybridge produced a series of "chronophotographs" of horses and riders, including the famous 12-frame sequence Sallie Gardner at a Gallop. I know about Muybridge's work thanks to Jordan Peele's film Nope, wh...
Game Pass is done with updates this year.Earlier today, Microsoft dropped its December Xbox Game Pass roundup - with 14 games coming to multiple tiers of the service in the next few weeks. The update stops at December 11th with the addition of
Rumors and hopes regarding a Chrono Trigger remake have been raised again over the past week, driven by recent comments from Dragon quest creator Yuji Horii which do not deny nor confirm the existence of such a project.
Not all of Prime 4’s additions work, but this is still an excellent comeback.
A new trailer for Pokémon Legends: Z-A has revealed a surprise new Mega Evolution for the fan-favorite Lucario, and announced a new side mission that will unlock an encounter with Mewtwo.
You can complete it in a month, right?The rollout of Red Dead Redemption's new Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S version has unfortunately got off to a bad start, with the free upgrade having yet to activate - and there's ultimately...
Mortal Kombat 1 and Routine headline the Xbox Game Pass December 2025 lineup. Here's what to expect for the rest of the year.
Your latest roundup of new titles.Microsoft has today revealed the next roundup of titles coming to Xbox Game Pass, with a batch of new additions arriving here in the first half of December 2025.We've got the day one launch of Routine to look forward to later this week, alongside
Update: The full month has been revealed!Microsoft has revealed the next batch of six games set to leave Xbox Game Pass in early December, with these titles appearing in the "Leaving Soon" section of the Game Pass tab on the official Xbox mobile app.While all of these are disappointing to lose, we've got three big fan favourites leaving the service i...
Here's everything you can play on Game Pass Essential.Back in 2023, Microsoft finally phased out Xbox Live Gold, replacing it with Xbox Game Pass Core as a new entry-level tier to its subscription service. Since then, it's ...
'If you want to torture somebody, first show them your tools' is one of the better horror game design lessons taught by Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I thought of Amnesia's cistern chapter while playing through a later area in Lunar Software's ex...
Retro video game fans are having fun pointing out a Nintendo-related blunder in Stranger Things Season 5.
Marvel got as far as giving Mia Goth a wig to wear for its 1920s Blade movie idea, before the setting was scrapped and the project was placed on hiatus.
Four maps arrive on day one.Ahead of launch later this week, Xbox and Activision have given us a closer look at the multiplayer maps coming to Black Ops 7 Season 01 - with four new levels coming to the Game Pass FPS later this week.The maps in question are Fate, Odyss...
In case you missed it, Hitman's latest celebrity elusive target mission is all about Eminem.The rapper has Agent 47 take down his blonde alter-ego Slim Shady, it's all very meta and a tad less appealing to me than the cameos previously made by the likes of Bruce Lee and Mads Mikkelsen as Bond villain Le Chiffre.That said, a new interview some IO Interactive folks have given to Variety, in which boss Hakan Abrak makes clear there will be a new Hitman coming once the studio have gotten some stuff off their plate, has caught my attention by contrasting Mr Nem with murderbald handler Diana.
Here's the best gaming deals you can still pick after the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales weekend concluded, including discounts on Switch 2 consoles, Xbox Game Pass, PS5 games, and more.
GameStop has highlighted its recent payout of more than $30,000 for a rare Pokémon card as evidence that the chain's trade-in program offers fair value — while simultaneously admitting the card had actually been worth at least $3,000 more.
"Which of these would you be most likely to use?".Whether it's a popular move or not, Microsoft is putting a big focus on the power of AI these days, and we've already seen Microsoft Copilot getting significantly integrated into the Xbox space over the past few months.It's very unlikely they're going to stop there, as suggested i...
Arrowhead has released Helldivers 2 update 5.0.0, which makes big balance changes that actually raise weapon damage — but there’s also an incoming message from High Command that has the community worried.
Hey, Helldivers 2's just gotten a patch with some noteworthy balancing tweaks and fixes ahead of its latest warbond - Python Commandos - dropping. In short, a fair few guns now do more ...
Death Stranding and Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima is well-known for his love of cameos — his games are full of them — but the developer is now making a cameo of his own in a very unexpected place: animated Disney movie Zootopia 2.
Imagine a fantasy version of Ming dynasty China, suffering from a plague that slowly mutates infectees into avian-like creatures. Toss in a femme fatale named after the Chinese gods of death, more hard-as-nails enemies than you can shake a guandao at, and Soulslike vibes imitating the greats, and occasionally even surpassing them. This is Wuchang: Fallen Feat...
Including three big fan favourites.Microsoft has today revealed the next batch of six games set to leave Xbox Game Pass in early December, with these titles appearing in the "Leaving Soon" section of the Game Pass tab on the official Xbox mobile app.While all of these are disappointing to lose, we've got three big fan favourites leaving the service i...
Paramount has announced a Sonic the Hedgehog spin-off movie that's set to launch in 2028, and fans believe the film will finally see Keanu Reeves' Shadow the Hedgehog step up as its star.
In a recent Japanese interview with Real Sound, Metal Gear series producer Noriaki Okamura discussed what’s next for the franchise after the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater.
An online co-op mod for very French and very puppety soulslike Lies of P has been released in alpha form. As of writing, it'll let you take on boss battles with a friend and its creators are hoping to offer full multplayer playthroughs similar to
Rockstar co-founder and former Grand Theft Auto writer Dan Houser has likened AI to mad cow disease, and claimed that humanity is being pulled in a direction “by a certain group of people who maybe aren't fully rounded humans.”
It's not working properly right now.The new upgrade for Red Dead Redemption is out today on all platforms, and while the game is now live and playable on Xbox Series X|S, the upgrade path from the old Xbox 360 version isn't working for lots of players - and there'...
A Fortnite artist has been forced to defend their work after fans suggested numerous images found within the game's new season are AI-generated, including a suspicious-looking poster showing a character in a hammock with an odd number of toes.
As of December 2, Pokémon TCG: Phantasmal Flames booster boxes are down to their best price ever after a brand new price drop at Amazon. Here's how to pick em' up.
Megabonk may have withdrawn itself for consideration for best indie game at next week's The Game Awards 2025, but it's now long-listed as one of 30 fan-favorite games in the running for the Players' Voice category.
Ubisoft's Splinter Cell remake has a new director who's served as its director before. David Grivel has returned to Ubisoft and take up the role he left when he departed the company in 2022, not long after being tapped as the remake's original director following its
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Toye’s previous work includes Shōgun, The Boys, Fallout, and much more.
The Splinter Cell remake lives as its original director rejoins Ubisoft Toronto.
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It is an incredibly difficult thing to sell someone on a game in just one sentence. What are you meant to focus on, genre, specific mechanics, an interesting element of the story? There's not a right answer! I'm not going to figure out a recipe for success right here and now, but what I can do is at least show you a single sentence that sold me on a game called Burden Street Station ...
We've scanned through all the 4K and Blu-ray movie and TV deals for Black Friday 2025, and highlighted some of the best around.
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Time's running out to get these Alienware PCs at the lowest prices of the year.
Around May last year, the one and only Ron Gilbert of Monkey Island fame announced an RPG that was meant to be some kind of mix between classic Zelda, and Diablo, and
The Heart Breaker Special Edition Xbox controller has dropped to its lowest price yet of $49 at Amazon in Cyber Monday sales. This is 39% off its list price of $79.99.

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I can only assume that Halloween's proximity to Christmas is the reason as to why there is so much winter holiday horror media. Perhaps it's even just as simple as the fact that people like it when Christmas is a little bit messed up! Either way, I do actually enjoy some Chrimbo horror, so I'm pleased to see the return...
From a price to performance standpoint, it's obvious which deal to choose.
Amazon is slashing prices on phones.
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"SLEEP AWAKE blurs the boundaries between reality and imagination.".One of the games you probably glossed over in our "games coming to Xbox next week" roundup over the weekend was Sleep Awake, which is a psychedelic horror game that's being developed by a brand-new studio.That studio is called "Eyes Out", and it's led by
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Not only are lots of classic board games old and new in this "Buy 2, Get 1 Free" sale, but many of the prices are already marked down to begin with as well.
TCGPlayer’s Cyber Weekend ends tonight at 11PM ET: Grab Phantasmal Flames sealed products at 10% off, or up to 16% back with a subscription. Booster boxes, ETBs and premium collections are at their best prices of the year.
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Best Buy's offering a free $100 e-gift card to those who purchase an Xbox Series X 1TB console ($649.99) during Cyber Monday sales.
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"Where the hell did that goblin go?" asks a mean knight of some sort whose English accent is of questionable authenticity at the beginning of the latest trailer for Styx: Blades of Greed. This is a reasonable question! When the goblin stealth game was
The version I've always wanted.For whatever reason, I didn't play much Red Dead Redemption for the first decade of its life. It was only really when Red Dead Redemption 2 came out in 2018 that I felt like it was time to go back, and by that point it was playable with backwards compatibility on Xbox One, Series X and Serie...
I sat down with Jesse Kurlancheek, housing lead and principal game designer, and Joanna Giannullis, senior UX designer, to pepper them with questions specifically about housing: how will it work, what features can we expect down the line, and what the future holds.
From Mario, to Splatoon, and even Star Wars and sports games, there's a whole host of Switch 1 and 2 games on sale.
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Remember the 2004 The Punisher film? Yeah, these days, that version of the popular character has mostly been relegated to the sidelines since Jon Bernthal took over in 2016. But it turns out the actor who played Frank Castle in the film, Thomas Jane, doesn’t even think he should’ve played the character in the first place.
God of War Ragnarök has dropped to just $19.99 in Cyber Monday sales at both Best Buy and Target.
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If a CEO says their company is going to do that something sounds ridiculously unrealistic, or borderline unachievable if you actually take a second to think about it, you can probably assume that this is for the ears of shareholders. With that said, CD Projekt Red recently held a
The latest freebies for XGP subscribers.The Xbox Game Pass Perks program is continuing to add a bunch of freebies for Game Pass members throughout December 2025, including for the likes of Fortnite, The Crew Motorfest,
Review: Equal parts fun and stressful, Marty Supreme combines the chaotic directing style of Josh Safdie with the charisma of Timothée Chalamet to make a one-of-a-kind ping pong movie that is, without a doubt, one of the year’s best films.
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Out now on the service!Marvel Cosmic Invasion is kicking off December on Xbox Game Pass in a big way - and the new Marvel brawler is out now, which means early reviews are starting to trickle in for the newly-released Xbox title.So, we're going to gather up some of ...
Since 1873, the team at Rock Paper Shotgun have gathered once a year to select what they believe to be the best PC games of all time. Admittedly, they only started writing the list down in 2021, but try not to hold their spotty recordkeeping against them. Read more
Fortnite's latest skin-shedding has seen the battle royale take on a more Hollywood-ish guise, with the new Pacific Break map parodying the American west coast. Epic have also taken the chance to add in self-revive items you can use to bring yourself back from the brink and an option which makes building simpler. Meanwhile, the update's rollout has seen one of the...
The release of the new KPop Demon Hunters digital art book that accompanies the hit Netflix film has opened fans eyes to some crucial lore that was once just speculation — but now has become canon.
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You can lock in a year's worth of monthly Steam PC games for just $124.99 with this Cyber Monday deal.
IO Interactive is busy working on James Bond video game 007 First Light, but it has said it also has plans to release Hitman 4 at some point.
How the new Xbox versions stack up.The new version of Red Dead Redemption for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S will be with us on Tuesday, December 2nd, and it's already Tuesday in some countries right now, hence why we've got some early footage!It always seems to be Fuzion Xbox Testing on YouTube that gets to this ki...
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For a limited-time only!Rockstar's new current-gen upgrade for Red Dead Redemption is starting to roll out in certain regions, and with the game now live in some parts of the world, we're seeing that this new version has a 50% launch discount on Xbox Series X|S.Available for seemingly the first two weeks after release, Red Dead Redemption ...
Grand Theft Auto 6 work-in-progress development footage appeared online over the weekend before it was scrubbed from the internet. But while Rockstar’s hotly anticipated sequel has suffered substantial and damaging leaks in the past, this latest leak is anything but.
Release dates for every December Xbox launch.Welcome to our roundup of all new Xbox games coming out in December 2025! Below, we've listed every Xbox game with a December 2025 release date, including all confirmed Xbox Game Pass titles for December 2025 so far.Without further ado, here are all the new games coming to Xbox in December 2025:R...
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Here's what's up for grabs now that Nintendo's official Cyber Monday 2025 sale is now live across all major retailers. This could be your last chance to save on consoles, games, accessories, and more.
If you call the number on the “missing” sign in Stranger Things Season 5, it has a message from the “Hawkins Police Dept” looking for Jane Hopper, fans have confirmed.
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Switch 2 bundles are $50 off at Walmart for Cyber Monday, while stock lasts (which it won't).
Masterworks.Halo: The Master Chief Collection has been a pretty steady Steam performer since it was introduced to the platform back in 2019; especially over the last three or four years where it regularly hits about 10k concurrent players at peak times. Over this past weekend though, the collection peaked a little higher than usual; hitting a Steam player count not seen sinc...
I'm still a little burned-out on Carrollian adaptations after Nightingale, but I will not let that tarnish my enjoyment of Wonder of Blue, a fey 2D labyrinth roguelite based on fiction's most famous Alice after Alice Bee (RPS in peace). It features a lovely selection of pixelart colour palettes, and some pleasingly tricksy enemie...
Jennifer Hale has opened up on PlatinumGames' controversial decision to hire her and replace original voice actor Hellena Taylor for Bayonetta 3, admitting, "I definitely got thrown under the bus by that whole thing."
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CD Projekt is sticking to its ambitious plan to release all three video games in the new Ciri-fronted The Witcher trilogy within a six-year period.
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Right, so. There's Oblivion Remastered, the official Oblivion remaster which released earlier this year. There's Skyblivion, the fan-made Oblivion remake mod which still currently looks due out relatively soonish, de...
They're still working on this one!At the end of last week, the developers beyond the critically panned MindsEye released Update 6 for the game, adding "enhanced gameplay" alongside a Free Starter Pack that means anyone can now try it for free on multiple platforms.Specifically, the MindsEye Free Starter Pack features the Robin Hood campaign mission along with 14 ARCADIA missions, and it'll be up...
Here's what's up for grabs now that PlayStation's official Cyber Monday 2025 sale is now live across all major retailers. This could be your last chance to save on consoles, games, accessories, and more.
Over the weekend, Grand Theft Auto 6’s legions of fan weather-watchers spotted a portfolio reel created by former Rockstar animator Benjamin Chue that includes what appears to be some WIP stuff from GTA 6...
Keep Driving captures the dream of a road trip, a coming of age experience where you’re finally able to start motoring around the world in your own set of wheels. Your sense of wonder’s still intact and each place you visit on brings fresh surprises. But the game isn't a schmaltzy dip i...
Where Winds Meet players are taking a novel approach to solving riddles by… simply telling the game's AI-powered chatbot NPCs that they have solved the game's riddles.
"Today I kept a promise my younger self never forgot.".It's been quite an underwhelming Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2025 from a console perspective for Xbox fans, with just a few small discounts scattered around for the two systems, but that's still managed to make some people happy!Over on the Xbox subreddit, there are a few people showing off their new Series X and Series S purchases, although it's unclear what specific deals they've taken advantage of here....
Avatar creator James Cameron has issued strong words on the potential for entire characters to be created with generative AI, saying it’s “horrifying to me.”
November is...done! The tawdry moveable feast that is Videogaming shudders and rolls beyond the canopy, out into the whitening dunes and fathoms of December. Now for revelry! Strike your trumpets! Blow your drums! Possibly the other way round! The folk of game development exit their wagons and sprint weeping amongst the dissipating trees. A bunch of narrative and game designers put on...
So, an ambitious Cyberpunk 2077 multiplayer mod called CyberMP has been in development for a little while now, and the folks behind it have just concluded its "most stable and successful" closed beta test yet. Tweaks to key elements like vehicle and player synchronisation, as well ...
Starting today!Welcome to your latest Xbox Game Pass roundup! So far, we've got three games coming to the library this week, including the recent surprise addition to the lineup in Marvel Cosmic Invasion - which arrives today!Here's a look at this week's Xbox G...
Predator: Badlands is now officially the highest-grossing Predator movie of all-time, including the Alien crossover films.
Amazon just slashed Phantasmal Flames to $254.99, its lowest price yet and $15 under TCGPlayer’s market value. Today’s the final Cyber Monday chance to grab the set while cashback and stock last.
The free-to-play NetEase-published Wuxia adventure, Where Winds Meet, has topped 9 million players in just two weeks.
For the first time this year, this TV isn't obnoxiously priced.
Geoff Keighley has kicked off his annual The Game Awards tease with social media posts that reportedly relate to a Diablo 4 expansion.
The third-largest Marvel-themed LEGO set ever.
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Dastardly December has done it again. Here I was having a nice time with November, joking about the time February tried to explain leap years to August, and the wintry month snuck up in my blindspot. Now December's in the house, kicking back on the sofa with its feet up on the table. At least it's brought a gift:
Mostly a continuation of Black Friday sales, but everything ends today.
This MicroSD Express card is sold exclusively through Best Buy.
It's Black Friday round two.
One of the best LEGO sets under $100.
Grab one of the best reading tablets at a great price.
Still one of the best deals for sports streaming.
Get the most powerful graphics card for your dollar.
“In the Name of the Father” does a good job of re-establishing the stakes going into Welcome to Derry’s fast-approaching Augery, as the fallout of Pennywise’s emergence forces characters to get their priorities in order.
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Get a 75" Mini-LED TV for $399, Asus laptop for $199, $250 off a Steam handheld gaming PC, and more.
Sony's newest and best noise canceling headphones.
It's like playing whack-a-mole.
This laptop is $150 cheaper than Black Friday's best deal.
Disney has a massive hit on its hands with Zootopia 2, which has secured an enormous $556 million global opening at the box office.

If you're seeking the absolute best of the best in PC gaming performance, look no further.
Everything you need to get started.
Your entire Steam library at your fingertips.
The all-metal OMEN MAX gaming laptops have dropped to incredibly low prices.
Take more than half off some excellent displays.
PlayStation's Black Friday sale has officially begun, and shoppers can score a sweet discount on the PlayStation Portal as part of it.
The gift that everyone dreams of receiving.
Save big on trips to the Lands Between with Cyber Monday discounts on Elden Ring and Nightreign.
No better time to upgrade your PC for the next generation of games.
From holiday specials to Taylor Swift, here's what's coming to Disney+ next month.
The Black Friday weekend is almost over (although Cyber Monday is just hours away), and while we’ve covered how you can get an Alienware RTX 5080 build at a discount, Dell’s deals extend to t...
Phantasmal Flames Pokémon TCG products are fully stocked at TCGPlayer and Amazon this Black Friday weekend, with TCGPlayer offering 10% cashback and some of the lowest prices on ETBs, booster bundles, and the Mega Charizard X ex Ultra Premium Collection.
Sundays are for writing your first ever Sunday Papers. Though your excitement, like mine, may slip a little when you realise you've been reading almost anything but gaming articles this week. So, I shall be leaning quite heavily into the "(mostly)" in the column's mission of rounding up "great writing about (mostly) videogames". I hope you'll be able to find as much joy in wr...
Nintendo's Cyber Monday sale on Switch 2 microSD express cards is now live, and you can pick up the official Samsung 256GB memory card for just $39.
Lower than any price I saw during Black Friday.

Discover Your Next Favorite Game. The Most Powerful Gaming Laptop Under $1,300.
With manufacturers looking to raise prices to fuel the AI age we’re sleepwalking blindly towards, Black Friday weekend might offer the last chance to save on PC hardware for a while. Read more
Our favorite TV for 4K HDR streaming and PlayStation 5 gaming.
No other monitor can compare to the Samsung Odyssey Neo G9.
Black Friday weekend may not offer the same deals it once did, but that’s not to say there aren’t savings to be had. Read more
I understand why walking sims aren't really a thing any more. Some of the earliest big names like Gone Home, Dear Esther, and arguably
Cherry picking the best deals from Alienware, HP OMEN, Lenovo Legion, and more.
It's the best time to save money before Christmas.
Crikey, it's been a long time coming, but it looks like The Long Dark is finally coming to a close… next year. Up until earlier this week, the fifth and final episode of The Long Dark's Wintermute DLC was due to be released by the end of the year. As you've probably gathered, the end of the year is very close...
Fortnite developer Epic Games has announced that 10.5 million players just tuned in for Zero Hour, the highly-anticipated live event that featured heroes from the world's biggest franchises turning up Avengers: Endgame-style to save the day.
The Legion Tower 7 RTX 5080 gaming PC just dropped well below $2,000.
Stranger Things arrives, some Tom Hanks classics, and the King of the Monsters - all on Netflix this month.
From controllers to SSDs to headsets, here are some of our favorite PS5 accessory deals for Black Friday 2025.
When I first caught a very quick glimpse at Into the Fire, the kind of glimpse where you more just see a character design amidst a bunch of fire, I thought it was a new simulation game. A fireman sim, that kind of thing, the kind of game I'm sure exists already without needing to Google it. Into the Fire is not that at all....
Spoiler: it's literally every color.
There's a huge Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale on every puzzle from the Magical Puzzle Company that drops the price to $12.49 at Amazon and Target.
All that trouble going on with Monster Hunter Wilds aside, for a good long while now Capcom has been doing quite well for itself. Multiple quite well liked Resident Evil games, fresh new bits like
Right now, Team Cherry's future is pretty unclear. There is some kind of Hollow Knight: Silksong DLC that'll be coming somewhere along the line, but understa...
Have you been playing it this week?We've had a few games arrive on Xbox Game Pass this week, and arguably none bigger than Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden - an action-RPG from 2024 that's proved very popular over the past couple of years.Here at Pure Xbox, we played...
Black Friday weekend has arrived, and Walmart has a great PC build for newcomers to PC gaming at a steep discount. Read more
All the confirmed reveals so far.Looking for a complete list of games coming to Xbox Game Pass in December 2025? It can be pretty difficult to keep track of all the comings and goings in the world of Xbox Game Pass every month, so we've put together this handy guide to provide an overview of what's coming to Xbox Game Pass ...
In advance of Metroid Prime 4, we rank the finest entries in Nintendo's iconic sci-fi series.
South Park Season 28 delivers another underwhelming holiday-themed episode, as "Turkey Trot" fails to realize its true satirical potential.
Including a massive free upgrade for RDR!Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for December 1-5! We've got some big games on the way over the next few days, including the current-gen upgrade for Red Dead Redemption, Octopath Traveler 0 and DLC for
How about a track weekend?Welcome to your final weekend in November! If you're not stuck doing all of your Christmas shopping this weekend, maybe you're passing the time with some Xbox over the next few days?Here's what we're playing this weekend:Read the full article on purexbox.com
After forgetting to change my alarm for the weekend, my Saturday has started far too early. I clearly don't respond well to surprise free time, as I spent the morning writing my will. Disappointingly, Co-op don't let you set challenges and riddles for bequestees. This oversight has dashed the mental image of my brother and sister duelling over my gaming PC, armed with those G...
The least expensive RTX 5080 equipped laptop I've seen today.
The Tomtoc Slim is one of our best reviewed Switch 2 cases.
Well worth the 1% of the cost of your console.
Save up to 40% on super detailed buildable book nooks.
TCGplayer is running a cashback sale for the Black Friday Cyber Weekend, and you can get up to 13% cashback on all purchases. In celebration, here are our top recommendations for what Pokémon cards to pick up.
Woot has a wide variety of Nintendo Switch games on sale right now for Black Friday, including Donkey Kong Bananza, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and more.
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Find flash sales and decent discounts on AndaSeat's range of gaming chairs.
We've scoured the Black Friday deals to bring you the biggest discounts on the best board games you and your friends or family will want to play all year round.
From a price to performance standpoint, it's obvious which deal to choose.
Here's the best Black Friday deals for Star Wars Unlimited trading card game, included booster boxes, decks, starter kits and the best single chase cards.
Entry level bikes for the masses.
We've scanned through all the 4K and Blu-ray movie and TV deals for Black Friday 2025, and highlighted some of the best around.
Mega Venusaur ex Premium Collection is up for preorder and cheapest at TCGPlayer, with up to 16% cashback during Cyber Weekend. Grab the best Black Friday deal before it’s gone.
Save 50% on an annual subscription and get access to Peacock Premium.
It's looking like no one will be able to beat this deal.
Team Cherry has revealed it’s thinking about making a brand new game rather than a Hollow Knight 3 — but admitted that their only time concern is “death.”
Elden Ring for Xbox Series X and PS5 alongside its Shadow of the Erdtree Edition for PS5 have received huge discounts in Black Friday sales, with the former as low as $15 and the latter down to $40.
Perfect for keeping your power hungry handheld gaming PC topped up.
We finally have our first look at Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2’s new class, the Techmarine, as well as an image of its Omnissian Axe.
Sultai Arisen is a fun, graveyard-resurrecting deck with a big dragon Commander, and it's discounted for Black Friday right now.
Say goodbye to buying compressed air canisters in bulk.
Save $81 on a mechanical marvel.
Only one retailer still has the Pokemon: Legends Z-A bundle for Switch 2 buyers still in stock - here's where you can find one on Black Friday.
New price drops just landed today.
The best pro-grade controller for the Playstation 5.
This year's big new LEGO set for Black Friday is the ship from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Unfortunately, it was so sought-after that it went out of stock hours after going live.
TCGplayer is running a cashback sale for the Black Friday Cyber Weekend, and you can get up to 13% cashback on all purchases. In celebration, here's our top recommendations for what Riftbound: League of Legends cards to pick up.
I was precisely whelmed when Fatshark revealed the mohawked, chem-huffing Hive Scum as Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s next class; ...
Save over 30% off at Amazon Resale.
The UK’s best Black Friday deals are finally live. From gaming PCs and OLED monitors to PS5 bundles, Xbox discounts and a 99p Audible trial, here are the top 10 offers you shouldn’t miss.
And it helps that these savings cover not just the budget Ryzen Z2 Go model I originally reviewed, but the top-of-the-line Z1 Extreme version with an upgraded 32GB of RAM – and the same SteamOS, instead of fiddly Windows.That extra memory’s probably worth about four billion quid by itself, though while it lasts, the primo Legion Go S is going for £599 in the UK (a £100 saving) and $650 in the US (a $250 saving).Read more
Save big on games and accessories for Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X, and PlayStation 5 in Woot’s Video Game Mega Sale during Black Friday.
I am the hawk's justice, the quadrapedal crucible of oil and atrocity in which the future is forged.You were getting bored of turrets in war games?Come, surrender yourself to the dieselpunk folds and surprisingly jaunty background music of my ironclad majesty.
While the Nintendo Switch 2 doesn't look likely to see a big price cut this week, there are savings to be had for Black Friday.
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Hollow Knight: Silksong developer Team Cherry has confirmed it’s working on DLC — but it doesn’t know when it will come out.
A Black Friday weekend offer from Microsoft.Yep, live now on the Xbox Store (and indeed PlayStation Network), Black Ops 7 is currently 15% off; the game's first digital discount.The new Call of Duty title is on offer until December 1st, a few days before Xbox's main Black Friday sale ends on December 3rd.
These are the absolute best video game deals for the 2025 Black Friday sale weekend.
Imported Switch 2 Mario Kart World console bundles are listed below $440.
As LEGO celebrates the 30th anniversary of its video games, the world's biggest toy company reveals how it's staying relevant amid seismic changes in how people play.
Marvel's Spider-Man Collector Boosters for Magic: The Gathering are back in stock, and you save some money on a box of 12.
Still fresh off of being bought from Riot and revived by a team lead by Hypixel co-founder Simon Collins-Laflamme, Hytale now has an early access release date. The
Best Buy is taking $200-$250 off both SteamOS models.
Get 20% off the latest Pokemon adventure on Nintendo Switch, with Legends Z-A seeing its first discount since launch.
Xbox's best Black Friday deals include big gaming discounts, such as Borderlands 4 and Battlefield 6 for $35, alongside deals on controllers, Game Pass, and more.
After a long wait, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is finally coming to Switch 1 and Switch 2 on December 4. Nintendo recently revealed exactly what each of its Metroid Prime amiibo figures will allow you to do in the game — ranging from customizing Samus’s new ride to letting you unlock a secret movie without having to 100% the in-game collectables.
If you've been struggling lately with the thought that everybody you interact with online is a closet serial killer, why not fire up Killer Chat, which will remove all uncertainty from your brain and flood it with delicious, sexy fear. Hitherto available on Itch.io, and just released on
Maybe not until 2027, though.Over on LinkedIn, Sledgehammer Games — who most recently developed 2023's Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 — is hiring for a Senior Technical Artist role.What makes this particular job listing different, is that within the finer details, Sledgehammer notes that a bonus for this role would be someone with "AAA Mobile or Switch experience".
The goal is to get the most powerful GPU for your dollar.
Convention tells us that to be a PC gamepad, the gamepad in question must follow the layout – or, at least, match the button glyphs – of the Xbox controller’s ABXY design.One of the best PC controllers right now is the PS5-pattern DualSense, which today's Black Friday deals have brought down to its lowest price in months.Read more
Here's every PS5 game that's already discounted as part of the 2025 Black Friday sales, including some of the best games of the year like Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Borderlands 4, Battlefield 6, and more.
Overclockers UK has launched its Black Friday sale early with massive discounts on RTX 5000 series GPUs, Radeon 9000 series cards, gaming laptops, monitors prebuilt gaming PCs and more.
Prime Video's Fallout TV series has been followed around by a buzzing swarm of canon chatter hornets since the moment its f...
From Commander Decks to Booster Boxes, there are a huge number of Magic: The Gathering products on sale for Black Friday.
Deep discounts on the AirPods Pro 3, Sony WH-1000XM6, Beats Studio Pro, to name a few.
CD Projekt’s PC game storefront GOG is getting behind indie game Horses after Valve banned it from Steam.
Roguish games are everywhere right now.According to SteamDB, 1602 games tagged "roguelike" were published in 2024 out of 18567 total, versus 312 out of 9655 in 2020.Stir in roguelites and the countless games that advertise themselves as having "roguelike mechanics", and I sincerely worry that you're describing the majority of PC releases from the past couple of years.
With next year (and beyond) on Xbox looking pretty darn stacked, Microsoft could be having some trouble knowing where exactly to place its first-party games in its 2026 release calendar.NateTheHate — a well-known gaming leaker — has taken to social media this week to reiterate that Forza Horizon 6 is planned for the first half of 2026.We've heard a similar rumour to this one before, but for now, Xbox and Playground Games have simply attached a broad 2026 window to FH6 in an official capacity.
Save on two of the greatest platformers ever made, with each Super Mario Galaxy title down to $28 each with this Black Friday deal.
If you’ve watched the latest episode of South Park, you might have noticed a surprise appearance from one of the hottest video games on earth: Arc Raiders.
Battlefield 6 is now just $35 on PS5 for Black Friday, and its one of the best deals you can pick up this holiday weekend.
That’s the Ugreen 9-in-1 Steam Deck Dock, aND what it lacks in sexy naming, it makes up for by being just the nicest little stand/port extender combo that a handheld PC could ask for.It’s also a mere £36/$40 on Black Friday, up to a third off its usual price.Read more
Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 1 is out now on Netflix, and with it comes major reveals not just for what’s gone before, but what’s coming next.
Or possibly a TV show?The Game Awards is coming up in just a few weeks here on December 11th, which means we're probably going to start seeing hints at what might crop up at the show in the near future. Earlier this week,
IGN spoke with Iron Man writer Joshua Williamson to learn more about the new series and why Tony Stark, not Iron Man, is the truly dangerous weapon.
The Mega Evolutions Elite Trainer Box is now under market value for Black Friday, with TCGPlayer offering up to 16% cashback during Cyber Weekend bringing final prices as low as $67.71. Grab the best deal before it’s gone.
From Lord of the Rings to Fallout and Magic's own great cards, there are some great options to pick up - and get money back on.
Rejoice, those with nimble wrists or heightened gravity anomalies localised on top of their desks. Logitech’s G Pro X Superlight 2 gaming mouse, which for my money is the finest ultra-lightweight mouse in existence, is getting cut down in the Black Friday sales – so for your money, it&rsquo...
Woot’s Black Friday Mega Sale has slashed The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to just $37.59 when ordering through the Woot app, so the Switch 2 version will only be around $47 with the digital upgrade.
Here's what's up for grabs now that Nintendo's official Black Friday 2025 sale is now live across all major retailers.
Get 10 packs of Magic's Spider-Man set, including a Collector Booster, for 25% off in Amazon's Black Friday deals.
There's a big saving to be had on PlayStation VR 2's Horizon bundle with Amazon's Black Friday savings.
CEO of gaming at Microsoft, Phil Spencer, has revealed that compared to this time last year, Game Pass cloud hours are up 45%.
Digital Foundry takes a look.Last week, Aspyr and Crystal Dynamics rather randomly released the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot on Nintendo Switch & Switch 2, and the results of this port are pretty interesting compared to the existing Xbox and PlayStation versions.One area that the new version excels in, at least on Switch 2, is frame rate. The game is basically locked to 60FPS on the new Nintendo ma...
All the best Black Friday deals on LEGO sets of all sorts, from the new Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise to Pac-Man, and more.
Pre-release builds of Fallout: New Vegas recently unearthed at a shop in Utah contain rare files which could be "incredibly useful" to expanding what modders can do with the RPG. Well, at least they doe in the estimation of the folks who claim to have found them, a group of preservation...
I will begrudgingly accept that Black Friday, bleak as it is to anyone who didn’t grow up with framed spreadsheets above their beds, is at least a good opportunity to pick up dirt-cheap PC storage.Case in point, today’s sales include some nice, sharp slashings on some of the best Steam Deck microSD cards.Read more
Any planned pickups for next month?November 2025 is now coming to a close, and we've seen pretty much all of the month's big releases at this stage - from Football Manager 26 to Black Ops 7 and more.Marvel Cosmic Invasion kicks off December on Xbox Game Pass, while Octopath Traveler 0, Routine and a bunch of Yakuza games quickly follow in a busy first week or so of December.
Speedrunning charity drive Games Done Quick is holding a Disability and Neurodivergence Special this weekend, and is an important step for accessibility in gaming events.
Amazon's Black Friday deals are hiding a huge saving on the Xbox Elite Series 2 controller for console and PC.
The cast of Shrek 5 will include Skyler Gisondo, best known as Jimmy Olsen in this year's Superman, as one of the ogre's two sons, Fergus and Farkle.
Woot’s Black Friday discounts bring the Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con 2 controllers down to just $71.99 when purchased through the Woot app, with Prime members also receiving free shipping.
I’m trying something new for this year’s Black Friday coverage: drastically overestimating how long it would take to put together a guide to its best graphics card deals.Still, I do hope this helps any potential upgrader or from-scratch DIY builder out there – GPUs haven’t been 'cheap' in years, and while RAM is currently doing its best to replace them as the most overpriced component type in PCdom, graphics cards are usually in drastic need of discounts.Read more
The director of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 always believed the turned-based RPG was going to be "cool," but had no idea it would get this "big."
Amazon’s Fallout TV show is canon, so the question of which Fallout New Vegas ending it will rubber stamp as official has been a burning question within the community ever since it was confirmed that Season 2 would take place in what remains of the city. But recent comments from one of the actors on the show suggest Season 2 will dodge the question entirely.
Star Wars: Starfighter director Shawn Levy has revealed the movie's high-profile composer, and said the project would deliberately avoid "remixes" of John Williams' classic themes for the franchise.
James Gunn’s Superman on 4K has just hit a new low price in Amazon's Black Friday sale of $12.49, 64% off its list price of $34.98.
Lots of XGS, Bethesda & Activision offers!Here at Pure Xbox we've done plenty of coverage on Microsoft's Black Friday offers already - from a general roundup of the big Xbox digital sale to discounts on Game Pass and so on.Yep, from Xbox Game Studios to Bethesda and Activision Blizzard, there's a huge Steam Black Friday sale running right now for Microsoft content - so we're going to gather up some of the best offers down below for you to take a look at.
Get packs as low as $33 each, with over $50 off of Collector Booster Boxes for MTG's Avatar set at Amazon.
A trademark for Control Resonant has been applied for in Europe by a law firm who've represented Alan Wake developers Remedy on numerous previous occasions.This application's been lodged not long before The Game Awards and is to permit the phrase to be used in relation to games, but at the moment it's still a mystery what exact sort of Control-related thing it refers to.Read more
The Holiday Ops 2026 Ambassador and MCU mainstay breaks down his appearance in the game.
A wave of speculation among fans of Alan Wake and Control developer Remedy Entertainment has been sparked by the filing of a fresh trademark, just days ahead of The Game Awards.
Black Friday is back...again.
Project Motor Racing feels like an early access game that hasn’t actually been identified as such, and is simply not a better racer than its 2017 ancestor Project CARS 2.
The best Black Friday high-end headphone deal so far.
The best Black Friday high-end headphone deal so far.
These are the best standalone VR gaming headsets (no PC or console required).
1440p or even 4K gaming for about a grand.
Several of these deals use unadvertised coupons you won't find on Lenovo's site.
There's no better time to upgrade your home theater experience.
Lowest prices of the year on gaming handheld PCs, TVs, laptops, and more.
Your entire Steam library at your fingertips.
Prices may go up in the near future, so grab it while it's hot.
This year's Black Friday sale event has offered up some exciting discounts on MacBooks, including on select MacBook Air and Pro models.
A variety of AirPods models have dropped in price as part of Black Friday sales, including AirPods 4 (with and without Active Noise Cancellation), AirPods Pro 3, and AirPods Max.
Huge Pokémon Black Friday 2025 deals are live: Pokémon TCG, Switch games, plushies, Funko Pops, Squishmallows and more, all at massive discounts.
Skip the gym and workout at home instead with its space-saving, multi-functional design.
Check out our top picks across every Black Friday sale.
Take back what those price hikes took from you.
These are the best Switch 2 accessory deals for Black Friday, including discounts on memory cards, screen protectors, carry cases, and more.
Can't escape Disney this time.
In just a few days' time, one of the best games of the Xbox 360 generation will be making a comeback on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S in the form of a free upgrade that's dropping on December 2nd, 2025.That game is of course Red Dead Redemption, which has been playable on Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S for many years now, but only in its original Xbox 360 incarnation.That means it's suffered a few drawbacks including a locked 30FPS frame rate, which will be rectified by the new optimised version for current-gen consoles.

If you're seeking the absolute best of the best in PC gaming performance, look no further.
Xbox had at least some Black Friday juice in the tank for solid controller deals.
Assassin's Creed Shadows probably won't get a second major DLC expansion on the scale of Claws of Awaji, Ubisoft's associate game director Simon Lemay-Comtois has revealed. It's a blow to fans who are accustomed to getting a couple of major expansions per Assassin's Creed, and a boon ...
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We weigh in on why we can't find any Xbox Series X|S console deals for Black Friday 2025.
In fact, the service is more ambitious than ever now.It's been an ambitious year for Xbox Game Pass in 2025, with so many incredible games joining the service over the past 11 months, and it's about to deliver another amazing slate of titles in 2026 as well.In fact,
PlayStation's official Black Friday 2025 sale is now live across all retailers. From Nov. 21 to Dec. 1, you can save $100 off PS5 consoles, $20 off DualSense Controllers, 33% off PS Plus, and more.
Millie Bobbie Brown has discussed her current relationship with Stranger Things co-star David Harbour, after a recent article claimed she had filed a report concerning his behavior ahead of production on the Netflix hit's final season.
These are the absolute best video game deals for Black Friday so far.
Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios released update 1.4.0 this week, and in the patch notes teased a “very hot fix for the locked room exploits.” It turns out they weren’t kidding.
A couple of weeks after arguing that generative AI shouldn't be considered in videogame reviews, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney is calling for Steam and digital storefronts generally to stop requiring generative AI disclosures. Sweeney's argument is broadly that...
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Lowest prices of the year on OMEN MAX and OMEN Transcend models.
Microsoft takes action.There's been a lot of talk about curation and how Microsoft seems to allow anything on the Xbox Store these days, but apparently there's a lot going on in the background that we're never privy to, as evidenced by a few games that have quietly been hard delisted on the Xbox Store.The term "hard delisted" refers to games that not only are unavailable to purchase, but don't even have an Xbox Store page anymore, meaning you technically can't d...
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 hasn't sold as well as publishers Paradox predicted. As such, the company have announced plans to write-down 355 million Swedish Krona (approximately £28 million/$37 million) of the game's development costs - ...
Wizards of the Coast has announced it has gone “back to the drawing board” with its Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair x Monster Hunter collaboration, admitting it wasn’t good enough.
A pristine copy of Fortnite has just been sold for $42,500 — which seems a lot for a free-to-play game.
Borderlands 4 just got its biggest discount yet on PS5 and Xbox, not long after launch. It's just $35 right now in the Black Friday sales.
One of the best Apple deals we've seen so far for Black Friday.
"The largest and most significant update to date".It's been a few months now since Dying Light: The Beast launched on Xbox and other platforms, and the game has just received its biggest update since release today - perfect timing considering it's part of the Xbox Black Frid...
If you're going for image quality, OLED is the natural choice.
Additional savings when you match any combination of Arc Ultra, Era, and Sub 4 speakers.
Earlier this year, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord's War Sails naval expansion had its release pushed back from June 17th to November 2...