Assassin's Creed is a game where, in the words of AC Odyssey's world director, Ban Hall, "verticality is really important." It's always been a game about seeing a giant cathedral or something, scrambling up to the top, and then admiring the view before swan-diving off. Even at more of a street level, you're still constantly gaining that little bit of height for sightlines and combat advantages. It is a game...
The Super Mario Bros. Movie from 2023 made over $1 billion at the box office, with Seth Rogen’s Donkey Kong as the breakout role, so of course Nintendo is making a spinoff movie — what’s surprising is it’ll be alongside Universal Pictures. As reported by Video Game Chronicle, a copyright was filed in May for an untitled Donkey Kong movie, highlighting Nintendo and Universal as co-producers. It’s the perfect time...
Maybe you recognize him as the double-crossing priest from Peaky Blinders. Or as the kind-hearted king whose skin fell off in House of the Dragon. Paddy Considine has long been one of the top “oh hey it’s that guy” actors of our time, but over the past few weeks, he’s kicked things up a notch with a remarkable string of bangers. It’s the Summer of Considine, everyone. It’s hit the...
James Gunn’s Superman kicks off a new era of DC movies, under the guardianship of Gunn and DC Studios co-chairman and CEO Peter Safran. It isn’t the first project of Gunn and Safran’s new DC media universe — that honor went to Creature Commandos — but it is a tone-setter and mission statement, with both a lighter overall tone than DC’s Zack Snyderverse, and a lighter hand on the controls. Gunn...
Superman is off to a great start at the box office. James Gunn kicked off his reboot of the DC Universe with the second best opening of his career, and the best ever for a solo Superman movie. According to Deadline, Superman made $123 million in the U.S. over its opening weekend, and a further $95 million internationally for a total worldwide box office of $217 million. That makes it...
Today's Wordle hint is right here if you need it, ready for use straight from the top but just as helpful further down the board if you like the idea of seeing how you get on first. Using our general tips to refresh your general tactical guessing can help a lot too. And the answer to the July 14 (1486) Wordle is on standby if those green letters refuse to...
Best of the best(Image credit: Xbox Game Studios)2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventuresOn an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that's a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up with. Potentially exciting gems are sure to be lost in the deluge of...
In a new video from Zullie the Witch, the prolific FromSoftware dataminer dug into those shadowy giant guys who appear in the distance on day two of Elden Ring Nightreign. My main takeaway: These guys are big, only eclipsed by the biggest dudes in Armored Core in the FromSoft back catalogue.Zullie measured them to be 3,450 meters, or a little over two miles tall. They're officially the biggest dudes to...
FromSoftserve on YouTube posted a preview of his upcoming Dark Souls 3 lighting engine mod on July 6, showcasing an in-depth look at DS3 re-imagined with vastly improved lighting and textures.FromSoftserve's mod is built on top of the DS3LightingEngine, which allows for deep customization of light mechanics. DS3LightingEngine is also a work in progress, but the modder, Ragevitamins, said in an update that it will be finished in Q4 of...
One of the Vice Presidents of the European Parliament, Nicolae Ștefănuță, publicly voiced his support for Stop Killing Games in a major win for the newly-minted EU Citizens' Initiative. On July 12, Ștefănuță posted a video on his Instagram story announcing that he had signed the Stop Killing Games petition and plans to continue helping the movement.Ștefănuță said in the video, "I stand with the people who started this citizen...