Riding off the success of Longlegs, its director already has a new film on the way based on a Stephen King short story about a killer toy monkey

Blue Manchu’s Void Bastards, published back in the day by Humble Games, was a ‘strategy-shooter’ roguelike I enjoyed enough to grab twice, one DRM-free and another on Steam. More than five years later after its launch, Wild Bastards is taking things in a new direction I haven’t been vibing with. I was really excited to…

We already know Helldivers 2‘s upcoming patch will be bringing with it some pretty beefy buffs to the weapons you can wield as a diver, but Arrowhead’s also taking on the task of makinbg certain enemies easier to fight. With that in mind, rocket devastators and gunships are having some extra limits put on their…

In case you haven’t heard, the PS5 Pro’s a bit expensive. As was slapped across a barrage of rightly flabbergasted tweets and articles in the aftermath of the console being revealed on Tuesday, it’ll set you back at least $699.99/£699.99. So, a lot of peopole have been asking, is it a no brainer to just…

Great news for all you Concord players out there, official merch is now avialable for sale or pre-order. Listed on the US version of the PlayStation Gear store, you can pick up a Concord mug, t-shirt, hoodie or beanie to show your love for Sony’s hottest live service release. If they’re anything like the game,…

All 25 members of staff on the gaming team at Annapurna Interactive – publisher of acclaimed indies like Outer Wilds, Stray and Neon White – have reportedly resigned after talks to spin-off the division as an “independent entity” broke down. According to a report from Bloomberg, corroborated by IGN, Annapurna president of interactive and new…

Space Marine 2 appears to be the current hotness. It’s popped off on Steam, hitting an impressive player count entirely with early adopters before smashing that figure once again as soon as the gates were thrown open by the game’s public release. The result is multifaceted. Not only do 40K fans get a loving send-up…

Remember Tony Hawk, skateboarder and star of a bunch of video games that served as foundational experiences for you and your mates – assuming you grew up with dreams of competing at the X Games and having Rage Against The Machine play at your medal winning afterparty? Well, he’s just teased plans to commemorate the…

Helldivers 2 developer Arrwhead has revealed the next Warbond that’ll be arriving in the game. It’s called Chemical Agents, and will live up to that name by letting you douse enemies in horrible gas and unleash some similarly toxic odours on your teammates through a fart emote. The news of this Warbond comes as studio…

To the surprise of absolutely no one, Hollywood appears to have taken the wrong lesson from Barbie’s success (it only worked because there was an interesting creative vision behind it), and now we’re facing an even deeper sea of slop built around brands. Up next: Cola Wars, from acclaimed producer Steven Spielberg and with comedy…

If you’re expecting The Grand Tour: One for the Road to be a sombre, sedate affair compared to the trio’s previous work, think again: if anything, it proves that advancing age hasn’t blunted their capacity for causing mayhem, or embarrassment to the foreign office. Zimbabwe, the gloriously filmed final location for their beloved format, is…

The highlight of the first Venom: The Last Dance trailer was the symbiote taking over a horse, which… isn’t exactly high praise. In the just-released second preview, however, things are looking more intriguing and unexpectedly high-stakes. We already knew that the third Venom movie was meant to be the ‘end of the line’ for Tom…

The Grand Tour’s final special, One for the Road, is a poignant farewell to one of television’s most successful, and endearing, male friendships. And it’s not hard to understand why it might be time to say goodbye to the format that presenter Jeremy Clarkson and producer Andy Wilman invented all those years ago: they’re old…

Earlier this year, we learned a new Jurassic World game was in active development at Frontier. While the press release didn’t 100% confirm the project is Evolution 3, it was the most likely possibility. Now, new details on the company’s portfolio strategy for the next year and beyond have illuminated the matter a bit more….

As though it’s sensed that Space Marine 2 has dragged us back to the 360 era vibes-wise, Xbox has announced that , as part of what it’s dubbed “an updated friends and followers experience”, it’s bringing back a traditional friend request system reminiscent of the one it had it had back in the day. Yes,…

Microsoft is reportedly laying off 650 staff from its gaming division, according to an internal memo sent by Xbox CEO Phil Spencer to to staff, which has been published by both IGN and Game File. This latest round of cuts would follow the company laying off 1,900 staff from its video game division back in…

Obi-Wan Kenobi, an okay show that was carried by Ewan McGregor’s strong lead performance, was meant to be a limited Disney Plus series. To this day, Lucasfilm still hasn’t announced plans to do more, but that isn’t stopping both McGregor and Hayden Christensen from campaigning to return to a galaxy far, far away. Ewan McGregor…

Warning: Major Spoilers for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt lie ahead. Which ending to the base version of The Witcher 3 you get depends on a lot of things. There are the big obvious choices, along with a heap of smaller ones, and it’s the former that really shapes the final proper cutscene you get…

The Penguin finally premieres on Max in exactly one week, on September 19. We’re now learning more and more about the process of shooting the long-anticipated series, and it appears that Colin Farrell didn’t have a super great time under all the prosthetics and makeup. As part of Total Film’s new issue, the actor explained…

My first console was the SEGA Master System. It was awesome. My second console was the SEGA Mega Drive. It was awesome. My sort-of third console was the SEGA Mega CD. It was awesome (to me). My fourth console was the Sony PlayStation. It was awesome. My fifth console was the Nintendo 64. It was…

Jason Damron, the voice actor behind The Storyteller – the main character of a long-running and popular fan-made Fallout lore video series on YouTube – appears to have died. This is according to a tweet posted earlier today by Damron’s account, which uses his online handle Kankennon and is the same one credited in the…

Neil Gaiman was accused of sexual assault earlier this year, and it’s now being reported that as a result production on Good Omens season 3 is being paused. Back in July, a report was released alleging that Nail Gaiman had committed sexual assault against multiple women, one of which allegedly had signed a non-disclosure agreement…

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is still yet to get its first trailer, but Marvel has announced a prequel comic to coincide with the animated series. Despite the fact that Marvel’s animated take on everyone’s favourite web-slinger, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, is due out in about two months, we haven’t seen all that much of it….

Helldivers 2‘s upcoming patch will be bringing with it some pretty beefy buffs to the RS-422 railgun, with Arrowhead having slid the weapon’s damage numbers upwards in its efforts to deliver the kind of fun that the game’s community has been asking for. The studio is offering little snippets of the notes for Patch 01.001.007…

If anyone’s asked me over the past few years which of the big annual sports franchises generally offered the most bang-for-your-buck on a yearly basis, I’ve probably said NBA 2K. It’s not a hugely ringing endorsement – unless you’re interested in whichever minor tweaks to the formula are on offer, you can generally skip any…

Warning, spoilers for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree lie ahead. Hello. There’s a fresh patch just dropped for Elden Ring, and it’s full of balancing changes that’ll no doubt effect your highly sophisticated build that relies on waiting for the enemy to attack, then dodging and shouting ‘Boo!’ at the top of your lungs….