A new Lord of the Rings LEGO set featuring the iconic Balrog is raising eyebrows among fans, due to an oddly-posed product photo. The Lord of the Rings: Balrog Book Nook launched this month, and lets fantasy fans decorate their shelves with the franchise’s iconic fire-breathing enemy. It’s available to […]
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Call of Duty Black Ops 7 Developer Accidentally Posts Private Playtest Details to Public COD App
Details of a developer-only Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 playtest have been accidentally released to all fans on the Call of Duty app. This included details of unannounced multiplayer modes, such as a 20v20 wingsuit option. Whoops. “An internal, developer-only Black Ops 7 playtest was set to begin this […]
Call of Duty Black Ops 7 Developer Accidentally Posts Private Playtest Details to Public COD App
Details of a developer-only Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 playtest have been accidentally released to all fans on the Call of Duty app. This included details of unannounced multiplayer modes, such as a 20v20 wingsuit option. Whoops. “An internal, developer-only Black Ops 7 playtest was set to begin this […]
The Simpsons Producer Says Episode Featuring Death of Key Character Is Not Canon, as the Show ‘Doesn’t Even Have Canon’
The Simpsons executive producer Matt Selman has said that a recent episode of the long-running animated series that showcased the aftermath of a key character’s demise should not be considered canon — as the show actually has “no canon”. Indeed, Selman stated that the events of The Simpsons’ Season 36 […]
Control Spin-Off FBC: Firebreak Tops 1m Players As Developer Promises ‘There Is Still a Lot of Work Ahead of Us’
Remedy’s Control spin-off shooter, FBC: Firebreak, has topped one million players. While the game is free-to-play for Xbox Game Pass and PS Plus subscribers, the studio called it a “significant milestone,” despite acknowledging “there is still a lot of work ahead of us.” “As of last night, we have surpassed […]
Control Spin-Off FBC: Firebreak Tops 1m Players As Developer Promises ‘There Is Still a Lot of Work Ahead of Us’
Remedy’s Control spin-off shooter, FBC: Firebreak, has topped one million players. While the game is free-to-play for Xbox Game Pass and PS Plus subscribers, the studio called it a “significant milestone,” despite acknowledging “there is still a lot of work ahead of us.” “As of last night, we have surpassed […]
Capcom Experimented With Open-World and Online Resident Evil: Requiem Ideas, Before Going ‘Back to the Drawing Board’
Capcom has confirmed it experimented with plans to make Resident Evil: Requiem an open-world game, and for it feature online elements, before it ultimately changed course. In a revealing developer diary video, Requiem director Koshi Nakanishi introduced a brief look at this now-cancelled, earlier version of the game, where multiple […]
Capcom Experimented With Open-World and Online Resident Evil: Requiem Ideas, Before Going ‘Back to the Drawing Board’
Capcom has confirmed it experimented with plans to make Resident Evil: Requiem an open-world game, and for it feature online elements, before it ultimately changed course. In a revealing developer diary video, Requiem director Koshi Nakanishi introduced a brief look at this now-cancelled, earlier version of the game, where multiple […]
Super Mario Strikers Is the Next GameCube Title Coming to Nintendo Switch Online’s Retro Library
Super Mario Strikers — or Mario Smash Football, as it’s known in Europe — is joining Nintendo Switch 2‘s Nintendo Switch Online GameCube library next week. It’s the first game to have been added to the library since Switch 2 launched earlier this month. Nintendo Switch Online is a subscription-based […]
Sea of Remnants Preview: Sea of Thieves Piracy Meets Persona 5 Stylishness, But Is It More Than Skin-Deep?
After half a dozen hours in the earliest moments of the upcoming pirate RPG Sea of Remnants, I was left with tons of questions about how this one will ultimately turn out, whether it was the currently barebones turn-based combat system, the convoluted labyrinth of vendors and upgrade paths that […]