Fan-Favorite Star Trek FPS Had To Change Its Plot After 9/11: ‘We Actually Had A Shuttle Fly Into a Building’
Star Trek: Elite Force 2 was one of many games and movies that were affected in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks
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The 12 Biggest Video Game Flops of All Time
No one sets out to build a flop. Game development costs too much to justify anything but a genuine effort, sometimes at the cost of creative freedom. Even the industry’s true auteurs must eventually answer for their bold decisions. With so many safeguards in place, most games…
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The Week In Games: A Co-Op RPG Inspired By Morrowind
And Steins;Gate Re:Boot is here to commit more heinous punctuation crimes
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MTG Hobbit Secret Lair Bonus Sheet: Diabolic Intent gets the perfect LOTR art
Early on in The Hobbit, Thorin's Company narrowly avoids getting eaten by a trio of trolls by allowing them to argue so long that they turn to stone in the sunlight. Then they raid the trolls' treasure. That's when Bilbo Baggins gets Sting, the shortsword that glows when orcs…
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Star Citizen Dev Hosts Disastrous Livestream To Show How A Mission Works And Is Told To Pull The Plug: ‘It’s Your Show, Wrap It Up’
The Star Citizen Live stream featuring the Siege of Orison mission doesn't go well at all
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Kingdom Hearts’ Kairi Actor Pays Tribute To Hayden Panettiere: ‘From One Kairi To Another, I Just Wanted To Acknowledge The Tremendous Loss’
Alyson Stoner has played the character since 2008’s Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories
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One Army Battalion Reportedly Offering Time Off To Play GTA 6 As Re-Enlistment Bonus
Sign a contract to serve more time and you can play GTA 6 for a few days in November
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‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Season 2 Officially Confirmed by HBO
It’s been a pretty great year to be a horror fan. Obsession became one of 2026’s biggest surprise hits, Backrooms turned an internet nightmare into a box-office smash, and even smaller releases like Hokum found an audience. And now, one of the most iconic stories from horror…
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9 Major Mutants Marvel Still Needs to Cast for the MCU X-Men Reboot
This past weekend at Disney’s fan event D23, Marvel Studios announced a sizable portion of its upcoming X-Men lineup, which will debut in 2028. Along with Sadie Sink reprising her role as Jean Grey, which she debuted in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Kit Connor will be playing Scott…
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Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ Now Streaming Free on Two Platforms
The Christopher Nolan-palooza continues. As the director's latest, The Odyssey, climbs the box office, his 2023 movie is now easier to access than ever. Oppenheimer is back on several streaming platforms for free (with ads).
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Pokopia Fan Figures Out How To Get Limited-TIme Pokémon Without Messing With Switch 2 Settings
It turns out it’s possible to recruit limited-time Pokémon within the bounds of the game
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2024’s Greatest Roguelike Is a Must-Play on Xbox Game Pass
In the original Star Wars, Han Solo says of the Millennium Falcon, “She might not look like much, kid. But she’s got it where it counts.” The same is also true of Balatro, the roguelike from solo developer LocalThunk that took the gaming world by storm back in 2024. It was…
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Fan-favorite Star Wars The Clone Wars Character Officially Confirmed for New Game
Star Wars Zero Company is the next big-ticket video game set in a galaxy far, far away. It's out next week, and on Monday publisher EA shared a new, final trailer for the turn-based tactics game ahead of its release. The trailer includes shots from cutscenes and of its XCOM-like…
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Everything we know about PS6, Sony’s next-gen PlayStation console
If it doesn’t feel like it’s time to start thinking about the PlayStation 6 yet, it’s because lengthening game development times have slowed the pace of new releases for PS5, because initial take-up of the console was slowed by supply issues, and because the COVID-19 pandemic…
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Update: Krispy Kreme Pokémon Doughnuts Are A Little Tricky To Come By
Why would I have assumed I could buy cute Pikachu-themed doughnuts on the day they came out?
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Netflix's Sydney Sweeney Gundam Movie is a 'Big Action-Romance Space' Epic
The live-action Gundam film has been in the works in some form or another since 2018. A director and cast have been announced, including high-profile names like Sydney Sweeney joining the project. Still, hard details on exactly what the adaptation of the legendary mech anime…
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Supreme Reveals 24K Gold Analogue Pocket Handhelds
The Analogue Pocket is already one of the slickest ways to revisit Nintendo's Game Boy era without digging a scratched-up handheld out of a closet.
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